NY assembly member Sam Hoyt is the latest government hack to propose anti-smoking legislation, this time aimed at private sales of this legal product. His proposed fascistic legislation is rationalized on the basis that pharmacies are "health and wellness centers" and that tobacco is contrary to that purpose. Why he thinks it's his right to decide the purpose of a private business he never says other than the shopworn rationale of public health costs. That's what happens when you allow Government to take responsibility for your personal life; you end up with another parent and a power drunk one at that. Your life belongs to the state.
The majority that doesn't smoke will no doubt support this bill, thinking it's about smoking and not individual liberty. In the words of that famous anti-smoker Adolph Hitler: "What luck for rulers, that men do not think."
My local Walgreens also sells Potato Chips, Coke and other villainous substances. I guess they're next on his list. Maybe he gets lobbying cash from 7/11 or the supermarket chains who will benefit from his megalomania. At least until he gets around to them.
The last thing New York and especially Mr. Hoyt's Buffalo district needs is another totalitarian regulation to drive more people and businesses from that state.
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