More evidence for why banning smoking is a good thing

[A Black Falcon]

Boooooooooooooooo.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Cigarettes are taxed enough as it is and smoking is banned inside virtually every public building (as well as inside many condos and apartment complexes) - but a lot of people still smoke and it's generally considered socially acceptable to do so. I'm not an advocate of banning smoking, the decision to allow or disallow it in a building should be made by the manager. If second-hand smoke bothers you, don't breathe.

I remember seeing on CNN a few months ago an interest group that was trying to ban smoking in the military. What a bunch of bullshit.

Did you read the article? It's about how cities that ban smoking see dramatic drops in heart attack rates versus ones that do not, and those drops happen immediately. That's because of the removal of second-hand smoke, mostly. If cigarettes did not emit toxic fumes you'd have a point, defending people's right to do bad things to themselves is reasonable... but because that isn't true and cigarettes DO hurt everyone else around them, in a scientifically measurable way as this study shows, you don't.