Sartre: "Hell is not being able to smoke in the morning..."

I believe it was Karl Marx who popularized the phrase, "The Dust Bin of History," and then the New Journalism modification by Thomas Wolfe, "The Garbage Barge of History," and now Abigail Cutler's latest with her appraisal of the French Anti-Smoking League, "The Ashtray of History."

Here's a question for FCP'ers: which European country or American state will be the last to ban smoking? Ireland led the way with California not far behind. Now Planet Pepe? As Universal Healthcare becomes more and more the norm, look for Governments to increasingly pry into your individual lives.

Also note North Dakota being recognized by Cutler in this Atlantic piece: in 1895, six years after joining the Union, North Dakota banned the sale of cigarettes. This is not surprising considering that the Teetotaler lobby also prompted the state organizers to include prohibition in the first North Dakota Constitution in 1889. And no, I don't smoke.