CINCINNATI - Mark Brown, the bus smoker who was tazed and arrested last week, told reporters that the smoke-in was a protest against smokers' declining First Amendment rights. 

He also drew comparisons between himself and Rosa Parks, in her refusal to leave her seat on the bus.

"Yep, I guess you can call me Rosa Sparks,"  said Brown,  "Lucky for Rosa, they didn't have tazers back then."

 "This Ohio smoking ban has gone too far, when you can't even light up a Marlboro on the Metro," he continued.

Brown is also organizing a smoke-in on area public transportation.

"I hope other smokers will join me in a smoke-in on every Metro and TANK bus across the region,  (singing) We shall overcome.. we shall overcome... we shall overcome someday."