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Banning Smoking In Apartments

By Mike

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My city already bans smoking inside public places. It also bans smoking immediately outside of public places. Now the city wants to take things to a new level: No smoking inside or outside your apartment. Putting aside the obvious libertarian criticisms of the law, here is what strikes but does not surprise me - the law's proponents. Who wants this law passed? Rent-control freeloaders, that's who. At the public hearing, several middle-aged and older people who still rent said, "Our neighbors smoke. We don't like it. We can't afford to move away from them. Do something about this!" They can't afford to move? What that really means is this: In a free market, they could not afford to live in their current apartment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).

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