Smoking bans: Good or bad?

I don't see your point. Are you trying to say "Because Second-Hand Smoke isn't QUITE as lethal as Drunk Driving it should be legal"?

How ya doing, buddy?

Drunk Driving is ILLEGAL. Also, your logic makes no sense. "Alcohol is responsible for at least as many fatalities as donating blood to the Red Cross. So both should either be lawful or illegal."

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oliver Wendell Holmes once pointed out that "The right for me to wave my fist ends where the other man's face begins". Your freedom to do stupid activities ends when they harm other people. And smoking in public harms those around you. Drinking is not directly harmful to anyone but the immediate person. Doing things like driving while drunk IS, and that's why they're illegal.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Let's start with the Centre for Disease Control, arguably the most respected authority worldwide on diseases and other health issues:

Link - 66 Results for Secondhand Smoke. All worth reading.
Link - 556 reports on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (the current medical term as best as I can tell)

On to the American Heart Association:

http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=4521
http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=1213
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/9/3243


The Mayo Clinic, possibly the highest-regarded medical care instutition in the U.S:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sec...-smoke/CC00023

There's just the basics.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Eleo

There's nothing proven about it. Why don't you do your own research instead of believing what you hear in commercials.

Miss this, Eleo?

Originally Posted by Arainach

Let's start with the Centre for Disease Control, arguably the most respected authority worldwide on diseases and other health issues:

Link - 66 Results for Secondhand Smoke. All worth reading.
Link - 556 reports on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (the current medical term as best as I can tell)

On to the American Heart Association:

http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=4521
http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=1213
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/9/3243


The Mayo Clinic, possibly the highest-regarded medical care instutition in the U.S:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sec...-smoke/CC00023

There's just the basics.

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Since Eleo and now ieatjackets continue to post nonsense without Acknowledging the research, I'll keep reposting this until something happens:

Originally Posted by Arainach

Let's start with the Centre for Disease Control, arguably the most respected authority worldwide on diseases and other health issues:

Link - 66 Results for Secondhand Smoke. All worth reading.
Link - 556 reports on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (the current medical term as best as I can tell)

On to the American Heart Association:

http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=4521
http://www.americanheart.org/present...dentifier=1213
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/96/9/3243


The Mayo Clinic, possibly the highest-regarded medical care instutition in the U.S:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sec...-smoke/CC00023

There's just the basics.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Quote:

Yes, I would. But I'd own my house.

Last I checked I "own" my body.

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Well I'm not certain if your nose is damaged, you're lying, or it's just a ridiculously improbable coincidence, but the smoke smell definately does linger on nonsmokers who have been around people smoking.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I don't think "ZOMG IM LOSING AND CANT ADMIT IT" is a valid reason to close a thread, Eleo. But what do I know?

How ya doing, buddy?