Manteca is not New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s kind of town.That’s because the Manteca City Council Tuesday dared to pose and answer the question: Is there a limit to Big Government?And the answer delivered by a split decision is “yes.”In the Age of the Nanny State where everyone expects the government to do things for them and stop others from doing things they deem distasteful, the City Council stood up for arguably one of the most offensive habits of all — smoking.More specifically, they said enough is enough in the societal drive to banish smokers to modern-day equivalents of leper colonies. Manteca will not be banning all smoking in city parks. Instead, they will let a state law prohibiting the use of tobacco products within 25 feet of playground equipment stand.Being subjective, I do not like the idea of anyone smoking anywhere near me, period.There are bigger things at stake here, though, than my discomfort with the ill-effects of second-hand smoke.Individual rights or more precisely the right to do something that someone else disdains is being imperiled every time Congress and the legislature convenes.There are no absolute rights.