[TSgt]

Kentucky has the highest percentage of smokers by state in the U.S. at 29 percent.

Support also increased as age, income and level of education increased.

[Grunthor]

My youngest daughter went to Kentucky last year.; She had a boyfriend in the army she wanted to visit. Now, we live in Washington State. She is a smoker.

She was shocked at the freedom allowed smokers in that state.

[NRA1995]

"It's not surprising that those who have never smoked are much more likely to support a band than current smokers," says Francis.

Which band do they support? Wussy bands like REM?

[NRA1995]

"Secondhand smoke exposure poses significant health risks, and smoke-free environments are the only way to fully protect nonsmokers from these hazards," says Mary Francis, director of the Assistance for Substance Abuse Prevention Center.

Seems to me that this old chestnut was debunked years ago....

[mosesdapoet]

SURPRIZE SURPRIZE ...A Kentucky anti smoking group publishes a poll claiming Kentuckians are against smoking and statis media rallys to their cause (because it makes em feel good)...

[Mr. Silverback]

Ping!

[Osage Orange]

Secondhand smoke exposure poses significant health risks

Proof?

If Kentucky had any balls...they would just make ALL smoking illegal. Period.

[Gaffer]

To Kentucky: Then make the goddam things illegal and suffer the consequences of no collected taxes on them, diminished businesses, lost jobs - all increasing YOUR taxes and increasing the payouts for medical costs - this will not decrease healthcare costs. And when you find out, you can start on your next ‘unhealthy’ product, practice or trait you dislike...nothing but damned NAZIs...

[Dr. Sivana]

I am a non-smoker. I never have smoked. My dad got lung cancder from smokikng when he was 35. It was just a fluke that it was caught before it killed him.

If a business owner has a property, or a free association has a club, I see no reason why it is any of my business whether they smoked or not. If necessary, they could hire only smokers to work there.

I find that a majority most vociferous anti-smokling crusaders:

1. have no problem with permissive abortion laws, and at least have used their anti-smoking zealotry a replacement for other, more serious ills (e.g. out-of-wedlock relations).

2. are after my bacon cheesburger next.

I don’t want my country to become one big Bloombergville.

[rfreedom4u]

So if I open a PRIVATE business I can allow smoking in it correct? It would be privately owned but open to the public.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I am sure they will be just as successful with this as they were in ending the Moonshine trade

[Eric Blair 2084]

(sarcasm tag on) It’s about time that you uneducated goobers and rednecks in Kentucky or whatever flyover state followed the example of your enlightened betters in the NE and CA. Anti smoking is a brilliant money making scam. Front groups like ALA, ACS for big pharmaceutical companies get rich by selling nicotine replacement products like patches and gums. Grant junky “scientists” get millions in grant money to produce bogus studies on 7th hand smoke. The STATE gets rich from MSA payments and tobacco taxes. The bar owner can go broke and the factory worker who enjoys a cigarette and a beer after a 9 hour shift get screwed. As long as we get money to pay for the lease on our Mercedes Benz E350.(/sarcasm tag off)