Outdoor Smoking Restrictions in DC?

A George Washington University law professor is threatening to sue the university because it doesn't ban smoking within 50 feet of building entrances. And, according to Inside Higher Ed,

he’s doing so in a way that would hold an individual administrator at GW personally liable, which he asserts could break new legal ground.

And how. The professor, John Banzhaf, claims that allowing smoking near building entrances is a human rights violation.

Banzhaf says that the legal action would take advantage of a provision in the D.C. Human Rights Act that allows complainants to target individuals who “aid and abet” discrimination that is committed by their institutions.

Several cases, including one Banzhaf initiated to stop editors at a community newspaper in Washington from running “ladies nights” ads, which he contended discriminated against men, have successfully cited this provision, he says.

This guy would really hate the smoke-filled ladies-only events that I frequent. Oh, and, not surprisingly, he is also a self-described anti-junk food crusader. Slippery slope, slippery slope, slippery slope...