The question I have is this: Why was this stupid, asinine cigarette law on the books in the first place? A man died resisting arrest because of a law that shouldn’t have even been on the books, much less enforced.
I'll let Ayn Rand answer that one.
"There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers — and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system.”