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One suspects that, after six months, this will be like Michael Bloomberg’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. When that law took effect in 2003, it too was decried as a business killer, an overreaching, scoldy approach to behavior modification, an imposition on one’s God-given right to a Marlboro. A year or so later, virtually everyone had accepted it, and a great many nonsmokers realized their liberties had expanded rather than contracted. They had regained the right to breathe free