He might be onto something:

On April 24, the Keyport Borough Council passed an ordinance that would allow police to issue a $75 ticket to anyone stopped for a primary traffic offense who happens to be smoking with children in the car at the same time.

The sad fact is that we can moralize all we want about the evils of tobacco, pass all the punitive laws aimed at smokers we want, but at root we're a society of hypocrites.

We need smokers, we need their money, and the last thing anyone in state government - or national government, for that matter - wants is for smokers to quit en masse.