Great Dane, the conference wasn't supposed to be about smoking, it was supposed to be the annual meeting of ASHRAE,the group that sets the standards on which our laws are based as regards heating, air conditioning and ventilation. What happened is that ASHRAE was going to discuss CHANGING one of their rules that had totally disregarded smoking in their ventilation standards (due in large part to a nationally known professional anti being a voting member of their board). They planned to ADD a ventilation standard that included smoking, and the antis went wild. Stan Glantz and his ilk were passing out "scholarships" and PAYING their anti-sheep to go to this meeting and create havoc. If ASHRAE does change the standard, antis won't have a leg to stand on where businesses want to use ventilation in order to accommodate ALL their customers, including smokers. This is an important issue.