Just saw a story this morning on Drudge - Calabasas, California making it illegal to smoke... outside!

Now, I'm not a fan of cigarette smoke, but this is absurd. 

"The California Air Resources Board, which is the agency which regulates air quality in California, has adopted a regulation to treat secondhand smoke as a toxic pollutant of the air, like the kinds of things that come out of petroleum smoke stacks and out of the tailpipes of cars," said Michael Colantuono, Calabasas city attorney.

Comparing cigarettes to smoke stacks and car tailpipes seems a bit extreme, don't you think? What's next? Regulations on human and animal flatulence?