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Saturday, April 07, 2007


The war on smoking heats up in Abilene, Texas.
Just ask Brian Wayne Hendrix, who was arrested and jailed on an outstanding warrant for smoking in public. Hendrix, 44, said he was "flabbergasted" by the arrest, which came after an officer pulled him over Tuesday morning on a traffic stop.

"I never thought I'd be going to jail for smoking a cigarette, but I'd do it again," said Hendrix, who was released from the Taylor County Jail after posting $150 bond Tuesday afternoon.
OK, this is stupid. He didn't go to jail for smoking. He went for failing to pay a fine. As dumb as the law definitely is, the problem is not that it's being enforced, it's that it's on the books in the first place. Smokers (or anyone else, for that matter) aren't going to "beat the system" of fighting bad laws by ignoring them.



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