It gets worse: in a bald-faced attempt to promote their agenda, the City’s leaders decided to simply redefine the words “
tobacco” and “smoke” to squeeze e-cigarettes into current anti-smoking laws.[....]
This tactic smacks of despotism, as arbitrary and capricious as lawmakers can get. Am I being hyperbolic?
Not only public health, but the rule of law could become collateral damage if regulators can simply re-define commonly used, long-established words to suit their agendas. What stands in the way of declaring certain words in the Code of Federal Regulations (or for that matter, the Bill of Rights) as something other than what we have always thought?