[ETERNAL WARMING]

This is one of the reasons I won't nominate the Reagans for sainthood. They inflicted this assault on us via their health czar, C Edgar Koop.

[Age of Reason]

I haven't smoked in more than a decade.

But I l-o-v-e tobacco still: cigars to me are like chocolate.

[Quix]

Depends on one's definitions, I suppose.

I think it's anti-freedom to insist that I breathe smokers smoke AT ALL.

I think it's anti-freedom to require me to give a portion of my hard earned money to support lung cancer and heart failure treatments because of a willfully chosen rebellion against health and common sense.

I have also observed that most smokers tend more than a little to hold their cigarettes somewhat akin to folks who enjoy showing their middle finger in a certain posture.

This observation has led me to realize, finally--in my 56th year . . . DUH! . . . that there's more than a little chronic rebellion running around loose in most smokers, if not all.

And you want require me to aid and abet your life destroying, assaultive, addiction against my will?

And you think that's FREEDOM?

[Doctor Stochastic]

While logic suggests that smokers are more likely to develop lung cancer, the fact is, "no one knows" if this is the trigger or whether a genetic or other factor played a role.

The incidence of lung cancer is about 10 times higher in smokers than in non-smokers. Possible this is only a coincidence.

.PDF here

[gcruse]

I quit smoking in 1980. Not because the government was cracking down on me, but for my own health. Now I hear about smokers losing liberty while pot, which is less bad than tobacco remains illegal. Somehow, I just can't bring much sympathy to bear. Kill yourselves if you must. Just shut up about it.

[Just another Joe]

Smoking is not a right.
Smoking is a freedom.
Even in a republic, freedoms can sometimes be taken for verifiable reason.

A govt imposed smoking ban on a privately owned business has no verifiable reason for it.

The three largest studies on ETS to date have found no valid statistical evidence that ETS causes any harm to a person that doesn't have a pre-existing medical condition.

While smoking can be correlated to an increased risk for some medical conditions, ETS cannot be correlated to ANY medical condition.

If you don't like the smell of tobacco don't frequent businesses that allow the smoking of tobacco.

Personal responsibility - what a concept.

[Great Dane]

Good article........... printed and filed for a slightly ignorant daughter or two, who bought into the overkill.

[Dante3]

I don't smoke. But I'm more concerned about the mind pollution taking place on primte time TV.

[BSunday]

I don't smoke anymore, and smoking doesn't bother me like it did whenever I quit unsuccessfully in the past, and as a navy man I will defend to the death your right to smoke.

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[jmc813]

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[Wolfie]

Replace "cigar" with "joint", and watch everyone do a 180 on the "freedom" thing.

[philman_36]

"If by some chance they (the anti-smoking campaigners) succeeded in eliminating smoking from the face of the earth there would be virtually no time lapse before they sank their fangs into Big Auto, Big Meat, Big Soda, or whatever supposedly idealistic cause was out there that would promise them Big Money and Big Power."
Isn't prohibition, of any kind, $$ grand \^^/!