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We Used Terrible Science to Justify Smoking Bans
Slate ^ | 2-13-17 | Jacob Grier

Posted on 02/13/2017 5:49:16 PM PST by DeweyCA

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To: MayflowerMadam

I am sure there are people who are allergic to tobacco smoke.

Sounds as though you may be one of them.

But that has nothing to do with the claims that second hand smoking caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.


101 posted on 02/14/2017 3:47:58 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: BlackbirdSST
No, not related to safety. Related to having a pleasant meal or stay at hotel.

Last thing I want to be surrounded in a acrid smoke while I am trying to enjoy my dinner. And no, restaurants didn't do a good job of managing it.

Likewise, it is even more unpleasant to stay in a room that is saturated in it — not unlike burning rubber with a stale moldy smell that permeates your clothes, your sinuses.

Now that I know differently and have learned, I would avoid all businesses that have smoking areas or rooms. Or in the case of rooms, if I don't have a choice, be placed as far as possible away from the smoking rooms as possible.

At some point, too they got rid of smoking on airplanes. International flights were the last to go. Some countries may still allow it.

102 posted on 02/14/2017 6:35:42 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: arthurus

Friend, smoking stinks and you always noticed the smell.
For ANYONE with asthma or other conditions who in life have to go into public spots, it was also a huge issue.
In CA they used to or maybe still do smoke in outside areas or portions of restraunts.


103 posted on 02/14/2017 7:08:09 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: wgmalabama; Trumpet 1

No vices at all?

I’ll bet you he has an alcoholic beverage now and then. I don’t believe that I’ve ever heard of a cigarette smoker that has become unable to drive a car after or during a smoke. I don’t think that I have ever heard of a driver taking out an entire family in an auto accident because they were smoking a cigarette.

It’s all about control and believing you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing because I don’t like it.


104 posted on 02/14/2017 9:57:35 AM PST by Texas Tea
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