Next, They Came For...

Anti-smoking groups' new target: apartments and condos:

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) After helping to push through a smoking ban in Minnesota bars and restaurants, anti-smoking advocates have set their sites on another target: your apartment.

One anti-smoking group plans to begin a campaign this week to encourage landlords to outlaw smoking in their buildings. While the program would be purely voluntary, some communities might follow two California cities by considering broader ordinances that would apply to multi-unit dwellings.

Anti-smoking groups still have millions of dollars from the state's settlement with tobacco companies to spend on campaigns against tobacco and secondhand smoke.

What, you thought they were going to stop with banning smoking in bars and restaurants? That wasn't the end, but only the beginning.

Here's a crazy idea for anti-smoking groups to consider, why not use some of those millions of dollars that the state extorted from the tobacco companies to actually help people who have lung cancer after years of first-hand smoke instead of trying to "protect" people from the all-but-nonexistent risk of second-hand smoke?