“I don’t disagree with anything you have said but it is what it is.”
Well, then I guess we should just give up then. After all, Obamacare is law, so suck it up. Abortion is settled so move along.
“The more crowded our cities get, the closer we live to each other, the easier it is to annoy others.”
Yet, there is no guarantee that we will not be annoyed. Using that as the baseline for government use of force is nothing more than the creation of a bannana republic. The laws would never be consistent and would continually churn based on someone’s whim on a particular day.
“I can’t play loud music late at night in my own yard, I can’t have more than 3 dogs, I can’t burn trash at my house, I can’t target practice with my gun, I can’t keep my horse at my house, fireworks are a huge no no.”
The main difference between smoking and these activities is that you can avoid smoking on property that you own. If you want to avoid tobacco smoke exposure on property that I own, then you are free to not enter that property. However, noise polution interferes with you on your own property, as do the other activities you mention.
“We used to live in the country and I could do all of those things and no one cared.”
Cities have always existed. In fact, I seem to recall that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were both written in cities. I’d also bet that given the poverty of the day, that the population was even more densely compacted.
The tobacco bans on privately owned property are an infringement on the rights of the owner of that property. By empowering the government to take such infringements, you are empowering the government to further infringe on private property rights.
Why do you think that gay rights activists are suing bakers that will not bake them a gay wedding cake? The societal erosion of the respect for private property (a business) is what has empowered these actions. In fact, it is even going further than the theft of property via this removal of property rights, but it is also the use of government force to dictate that individuals must use their labor and talent as the government wishes. In other words, now that we have a society that has destroyed the rights of property owners, it is now acceptable to destroy individual rights to be free from enslavement.