[Gabz]

Another woman smoking outside her Hamilton office said she wanted to "look at the figures for deaths from drunk driving and passive smoking".

This woman is correct.........the number for "passive smoking" is going to come back as a big fat ZERO. Innocent victims of drunk drivers is a very different number.

I need a couple of things from the store, but I'm waiting for my husband to call me to see if we need anything on his way home from work.........I've been working in the yard all afternoon and have had a couple of beers while doing so. By no stretch of the imagination am I drunk, but I have no intentions of taking any chances.

[FrankR]

"the number for "passive smoking" is going to come back as a big fat ZERO. Innocent victims of drunk drivers is a very different number."

Oh, drunk driving is only part of it, what about the crimes - especially domestic violence - that are caused by drunks?

You'll ever hear an otherwise sober person say, "Well, your Honor, I had a cigarette and didn't know what I was doing, and just beat the tar out of the ol' lady."

And, an otherwise sober person has no trouble walking the white line after a cigarette...or even a whole "six pack" of cigarettes.

Drugs and alcohol offers not only the probability of liver disease and oral cancer over the long term, but chances at immediate death from drunk drivers, drunk and abusive spouses, and other violence and foolish accidents of the "here, hold muh beer" variety. And, kids that drink...and a lot of them do, won't have to wait the 25 or 30 years to get dead, one drunk driver can take them out at 18, or younger.

Anti-smoking is all about the money. People I know that used to stand around in a group of smokers and talk, and never complain, have all of a sudden developed these strange allergies to cigarette smoke, that somehow never existed before the RATS and the media started their indocrtination, or maybe EXdocrination campaigns.

I think the world was a better place when smoking was IN and socially acceptable. People who didn't like the smoke, moved away from it...now, they'll move in on it just to get to gripe about it. In fact, most can see a smoker from 100 yards, and they will start "coughing" and fanning their noses. How phoney can you get?

The anti-smoking zealots will never ban drinking because it is their "vice of choice". And, the breweries and distilleries still give the Rats some considerable donations.

They only went after tobacco companies when the majority of their money went to Republicans.

And like another poster said, they'll trash tobacco, but have no problem passing around a joint.

BTW, I'm a non-smoker...by choice...which is the way it should be, either way.