By Beryl Wajsman on March 24, 2018
Hampstead's ban on smoking in public spaces - including sidewalks - is an affront to a free community, unconstitutional in its breadth, unenforceable without encroachments on individual liberty, unnecessary even for health reasons and exhibits the worst elements of blue-haired prohibitionism that forgets the teaching of history which is that prohibitions increase crime. And the paternalistic manner in which Hampstead did it is a slap in the face to the democratic due process owed to voters. Elected officials are our employees. Not the other way around.
