Big Brother Knows Best

Oh no! Not another smoking post? Please, No!

Too late.

I'd stop writing this stuff if government snoops would leave their noses out of the private lives of individuals. That ain't happening yet.

At least not in Illinois where officials have disallowed smoking at a "pipe smoker's convention."

From the Freep and AP:

A new Illinois law bans smoking in public places. That's taken some of the steam out of this weekend's Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show in St. Charles.

The event draws 4,000 pipe collectors from more than 60 countries. Organizers tried to get around the new law by arguing their gathering was a private club meeting. Police and health officials said no.

One should be able to assume that attendees of a smoker's convention would be aware that smoking might actually be taking place at the event, and that this smoking could prove detrimental to the participant's health.

Just in case one of the attendees might be an idiot and not have figured this out, and because most bureaucrats are idiots and obviously have not, smoking activities will be relocated outside of the convention hall in a smoker's tent.

Where, apparently, patrons actually know there is going to be smoke.