One of my favorite parts about the culture here in the rural parts of the Midwest is that these busybodies are almost universally detested. I wish they would just cut to the chase and say "You have no right to smoke. Smoking should be illegal and be treated as a criminal activity. You are a criminal and an abuser."
Damn busybodies who would like nothing more than to regulate every aspect of other peoples' lives. Too many of them these days. I suppose our civilization has, in some regards, been too successful so now that Mrs. New York Times has all of her material needs so easily met, she can comfortably spend all of her time opining as to how the rest of us should live our lives. I'm not saying we should go back to 12 hour factory shifts and back-breaking small farm work, but it's fair to say that we will always have to deal with some unpleasant unforeseen consequence of our progress. The creation of large groups of people who have nothing better to do than worry about other peoples' business is one of those unfortunate consequences.
