The Smoking Ban

Even more pathetic than the PA smoking ban is the list of exemptions. Nursing homes and home-based day care centers? Give me a break. These are two groups that are in the worst possible condition to handle second-hand smoke (whatever the real problems with may be). If others smoking around you is dangerous, why the exemptions in these places. If smoking is really the dangerous activity it is supposed to be, why not a state-wide ban.

Is this a major step toward a permanent ban or is it that we can't afford to lose the cigarette tax revenue, so we'll make it legal enough to keep the money flowing?

Private property means nothing if the government can ban any activity on private property that it otherwise deems legal.