People too stupid so Big Government passes law

I wonder what would happen to society if not for Big Government passing laws to protect us from us. I remember the wild wild days of the early 1980s, before the seat belt laws when all the dumb people kept flying through their windshields because they couldn't figure out that the nylon and metal belt shaped object hanging next to their seat would save their life! Thankfully, our elected lawmakers stepped in and signed seat belt laws so they would be forced to protect themselves from their own stupidity/forgetfulness.

Now it's 2006 and people keep on forgetting that smoking small objects filled with tobacco and poisons will kill them. Even worse, other people are killing themselves by the scores because they keep forgetting that standing near these people is hazardous! Even worse than worse, business owners keep forgetting to tell people that have come into their establishments of their own free will and spending their own hard earned money to stop this ridiculous hazardous smoking!

Well, laws are popping up all over the place to help the stupid populace from killing themselves and others, like this one in colorado. Basically it is just like all the other trendy smoking ban laws that are affecting something the government has no business being involved with: private establishments where people enter of their own free will!

On Saturday I was hanging out with a bunch of my buds in a sports bar in Atlanta called the The Pigeon Stool watching the NFL Playoffs. It was about 5 PM, and we were eating, drinking, debating politics, quizzing each other on Sports Trivia, etc, when I noticed that nobody in the joint was smoking. So I asked the waitress about that and she told me that the local law banned smoking in indoor bar/grills until 8 PM!

HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

What? Where do they come up with this? 8 PM? How arbitrary! Why not 8:15? or 12:37 AM? Obviously you can see how ludicrous these arbitrary numbers are that Big Government comes up with!

Please, someone comment that believes that lawmakers should decide whether or not people should be allowed to walk into an establishment and sit down and order a sandwich and a beer and enjoy a smoke. If the owner of that private company is okay with it, what is the big freaking deal?

In the words of Dave Chappelle, "Bloomburg made cigarettes $8 a pack! That's crack prices!"

And no, I dont smoke. Well, sometimes I'm intoxicated and i bum one...