You know, we ALL should have seen this coming. With as villified as smoking has been over the last several years to the point now where "outdoor smoking" is being considered banned in many places, and it's already illegal in BARS...here in Maine, we all should have seen this coming. Legislation of Nanny laws like this one are becoming increasingly abundant in our society.

While I can see the argument made by the legistlative branches, last time I checked, I don't remember their role encompassing what we can or cannot do with our own bodies as that is the last vestage of free domain we actually have. But these laws, along with smoking laws, go as far as to prohibit specific acts.

Yes, I know smoking is bad for me...but I do it anyway, in part because I enjoy it. Yes, it increases my risk for certain types of disease. But then so does the entire granite ledge we live on up here in the Northeast due to radon emmisions...what's next? "Thou shalt not live on a granite shelf". I don't remember these same legislators being particularly concerned when they were spinning up nuclear power plants. I don't remember them being particularly concerned about major pollution causing corporations. But somewhere along the way, they've become concerned with what you eat and what I smoke.

Yes, I know this is about eating before someone says something...but I'm speaking to this problem in a larger scale, a scale that would cause these same politicians to believe it is within their right and duty to reach into our personal lives and say what we can and cannot do with our bodies, what we can eat, what we can drink, what we can say, do, where we go, etc.

Theirs is to govern law - that would mean that theirs is to protect us from forces OUTSIDE of our control that would harm us. Whether we want to do harm to ourselves, and even the question of whether we are or aren't in the face of all the other stimulie around us that lends itself to disease, influences that are FAR outside of our control, this isn't far and above anything that a legislator should be concerning themselves with.

This law, like that of smoking bans that have been going in affect throughout the country and indeed the world are just more examples of government intervention in life that should otherwise be ours to live.