An it harm no one OR why I'm not libertarian enough for libertarians

I'm on a local email list that is family-oriented, but frequently drifts off specific topic and into social commentary on anything tangentially relating to children and child-rearing. This meaning anything to do with culture, period, sometimes. And I'm as guilty as the next person. It's actually why I like the list.

Here's the text of an email I composed in response to a thread that started with asking about which restaurants were smoke-free and has drifted on to being about smoking bans in restaurants.

( While I agree that prohibition is, and Prohibition was, a terrible idea... )

Now we'll see if I get flamed. :) If I only get one person to think about how privatized our culture is, and how that interacts with "public" smoking, then I did the right thing.