Thursday, May 26, 2005

Judge upholds NY smoking bans after private Players Club sues to defend pipe ceremony

After doing something for 115 years you learn from a New York Judge:
"Individuals have no `fundamental' constitutional right to smoke tobacco," the judge wrote. "While individuals' freedom of association, freedom of assembly and freedom of speech merit constitutional protection, there is no basis for concluding that the smoking bans infringe those rights."
Maybe in the future those freedoms will be threatening to the state.Newsday.