Burning desire
Boy, it's lousy to be a smoker in Utah. Sen. Scott McCoy wants to fine you $45 bucks if you get caught puffing with a kid in the car.
Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ray wants to slap another four-bits in tax on a pack of gaspers to fund some cockeyed health programs.
It's time to get out, but cross Maryland off your list of safe havens. There, lawmakers have outlawed smoking in just about any business place. Lighting up is outlawed in bars, restaurants, taxicabs, bowling alleys and private clubs, including American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. (Who hooked those G.I.s on cheap cigarettes, anyway?)
But smokers there, at least, have a hero. Annapolis cigar store owner Rome Zaffaroni is calling for civil disobedience — ignoring no-smoking signs, annoying "goody two-shoes" nonsmokers and even dumping tobacco into the harbor, a la Boston Tea Party. "Do what your fathers and grandfathers would have done: break the law. Show some disobedience."
Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ray wants to slap another four-bits in tax on a pack of gaspers to fund some cockeyed health programs.
It's time to get out, but cross Maryland off your list of safe havens. There, lawmakers have outlawed smoking in just about any business place. Lighting up is outlawed in bars, restaurants, taxicabs, bowling alleys and private clubs, including American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. (Who hooked those G.I.s on cheap cigarettes, anyway?)
But smokers there, at least, have a hero. Annapolis cigar store owner Rome Zaffaroni is calling for civil disobedience — ignoring no-smoking signs, annoying "goody two-shoes" nonsmokers and even dumping tobacco into the harbor, a la Boston Tea Party. "Do what your fathers and grandfathers would have done: break the law. Show some disobedience."
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