{"id":331,"date":"2007-03-02T06:17:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2007-03-02T06:17:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T14:17:31","slug":"smoking-police-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/02\/smoking-police-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Police State?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/16803095.htm?source=yahoodist&#038;content=sjm_news\">Santa Cruz issued a new tool<\/a> in establishing a police state by outlawing the use of tobacco in parks. We&#8217;re now well over the line into silly legislation that will only be used to hassle people when the police need a reason to do so.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t smoke, I don&#8217;t like being around smoke, and I&#8217;m grateful enclosed areas are generally smoke free in California. That takes care of the health concerns of the non-smokers reasonably I believe as non-smokers don&#8217;t have a choice about breathing the waste air from smokers in enclosed environments. But smoking outside is the smoker&#8217;s business and shouldn&#8217;t be legislated as the waste air dissipates nearly the moment it is exhaled into the atmosphere.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s not take this smoke-free stuff too far people&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nIf you liked this entry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=331&#038;phase=2\">Digg It!<\/a><br \/>\nTune: <a href=\"https:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=927844&#038;s=143441&#038;i=927851\">Landslide<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dixiechicks.com\/\">Dixie Chicks<\/a><br \/>\nTechnorati Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/parks+smoking+ban\" rel=\"tag\">Parks Smoking Ban<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/santa+cruz\" rel=\"tag\">Santa Cruz<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/police+state\" rel=\"tag\">Police State<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/mike+harding+blog\">Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Cruz issued a new tool in establishing a police state by outlawing the use of tobacco in parks. We&#8217;re now well over the line into silly legislation that will only be used to hassle people when the police need a reason to do so. I don&#8217;t smoke, I don&#8217;t like being around smoke, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}