[Skybird]

I label a years/decades-long trend

- in social, paternalistic and control-raising developments, and

- political developments based on PC,

as "social fascism", that always include a very strong component of growing authoritarianism, state-legislation and totalitarianism in the name of social causes, social justice, social well-meaning, social equality, social whatever;

and this is all is something of which this smoker-story is just one more illustration.