Nah. It can't happen here. Our govt would never engage in such totalitarianism.
"We have no intention of banning smoking on commerical flights. We only want seperate sections for non-smokers."
Now the poor bastards have to stand outside in blizzards courtesy of the "compassionate". It's for their own good, y'know.
Smokers are a much bigger minority than motorcyclists and look what happened to them. It'd only take a similar concerted national Black PR campaign against motorcyclists and Joe 6pack would be enthusiatically voting to ban "then durned murdersickles".
Just be happy that the M/C industry doesn't have the billions that the tobacco industry has to attract the parasitic looters.