Extreme Cost of Smoke-Free Hermosa Pier

Smokers are now forbidden to smoke on the Hermosa Pier and beach.

I don't smoke; there is nothing about cigarettes that I like. But, that's not the issue.

The erosion of personal liberty is a costly loss. Government tells us to downsize our soda cups and popcorn containers. They restrict freedom and quell ambition. They cause an exodus of businesses and families to move away from California.

As the government nanny state becomes larger, the citizen becomes diminished.

Liberals are inclined to believe that the pursuit of good health trumps personal liberty. It does not. American soldiers fought for liberty. They did not fight for a nanny state.

The notion of second-hand smoke should not shape public policy -- even if it had merit, which it doesn't.

Although many believe the hysteria, the myth, that second-hand smoke is a hazard, such claims are without proof.

This medical report is quite concise:

http://yourdoctorsorders.com/2009/01/the-myth-of-second-hand-smoke/

I resent that a non-smoker's disdain for smoking can impede a smoker from enjoying personal liberty; I resent that Liberal councilmen can use local government to attain this oppressive law and I regret that they apparently did so without public outrage.