Someone said recently - and I thought it was a strong point - that you can test a person's "fascist factor" (my words) by bringing up the smoking issue (nazi vs free) with that person and listening to their reaction/opinion. I think it's true. My personal experience is that people who are fascist on this issue are completely hopeless on every single issue of human liberty. In the corporate workplace, I'd say this indicator works 100% of the time. I am repulsed by these people who want behaviors banned because such behaviors are not on their list of approved behaviors. My answer is to tell them to take up writing and criticize those behaviors -- that may cure their 'need' to control and ban. Honestly, I am extremely suspicious of (and therefore immediately distrust) any person who wants laws against anything that is behavior-oriented. This is where I disagree with Murray Rothbard that the state is all of the problem, and the masses really aren't that bad at all. True, the masses have been inculcated with so much establishment hogwash (from the state), they have indeed become disseminators of the establishment's behavior-and-thought control. But, at the same time, I am a believer of free will and personal choice, and as such, the citizen tyrants have the ability to accept or reject the propaganda, tyranny, and conspicuous abrogation of individual liberty that a total state brings forth. I reject such nonsense, yet they do not. They rubber-stamp the state's agenda with delight. Again and again, these parsimonious sycophants voluntarily choose to become cheerleaders for the state and its agenda, in spite of the fact that, at some point, that agenda will clash with their own. But I guess, in their usual one-day-at-a-time custom, they'll 'cross that bridge' when they get to it. Scrutinizing the inconsistencies of these schnooks is about as difficult as scratching one's ass.