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A Smoke Nazi is someone who is holier-than-thou and feels obligated to tell others how to live their lives as regards the legal leisure activity of smoking. He would enact rules and regulations which support his concept of righteousness, and force others to be as "good" as himself.

Since a few years ago, when the scientific supposition that secondhand smoke is dangerous was announced, no responsible parent has smoked in any enclosed space near his children. Not you, not I, no one. Nevertheless, CA Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-North Hollywood) has introduced AB 379 to "ban smoking in vehicles occupied by a child who is younger than 6 or weighs less that 60 pounds."

Do laws get any less enforceable that this? First, Koretz would have the police take time from serious felonies to pursue smokers. Then, he would have them carry scales to weigh the kids, and study to be like those carnival performers who guess people's ages. Oooh, bad parents everywhere are shaking in their boots. Ask any police officer and he'll probably say, "Now, that's a silly Smoke Nazi.