We can't prove the incoming Democratic leadership has anything to do this -- nobody will return e-mails today, for some reason -- but it's likely the National Zoo's new total ban on smoking has Nancy Pelosi's meddling fingerprints all over it.

Starting December 1, patriotic panda-loving Americans won't be able to smoke anywhere on the zoo grounds.

According to the lone AP reporter working today, the anti-freedom assault will start in the parking lots, where "disposal containers for smoking materials will also be installed."

Hooray for not using the word ashtray, fascists!

National zoo bans all smoking, even outdoors [Associated Press]

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