Kudos to Raleigh City Councilman Philip Isley for trying to safeguard individual rights and refusing to jump on the bandwagon that’s pushing for a ban on smoking in public parks.
Isley said he doesn’t believe it’s the city’s job to be telling people where they can smoke.
“I just don’t think we should be regulating this,” he said.
It’s common sense, yet Isley was joined by only one fellow council member — Mary-Ann Baldwin — in opposing this.
If allowing people to smoke is such a bad thing, then elected officials should ban smoking all together and shut down the industry. Ah, but that would mean they’d have to give up millions and millions in cigarette tax revenue. They’d rather jump off a cliff than do that.
