In the 1950s, the most puritanical place in America was somewhere in Kansas. Today it is Los Angeles.
Exhibit A: A proposal by the L.A. city council to ban smoking outdoors. Outdoors. Say on a patio or hotel balcony.
Puritans are people who want to live according to a strict moral code of their own devising and want to make you live their way too.
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