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The thing that amazes me is the disconnect with common sense. Think about it. When I take a drag on a cigarette, I am inhaling a significantly concentrated amount of smoke. That same amount of smoke diluted in the airspace of an average sized room is much less concentrated, and therefore any effects from that smoke will be much less severe. Given that a smoker may, after 40 years of smoking develop health problems, the so-called second-hand smoke cannot logically produce the kind of effects that the anti's say they do, because of the dilution factor. Non-smokers simply cannot be affected in any statistically significant way by exposure to so-called second-hand smoke, because the concentration is so much less compared to what a smoker gets by direct inhalation from the end of the cigarette in his/her mouth. The larger the space the smoke is diluted in, the less effect it will have, and if it's outdoors, the possibility of effects drops to near zero, or at least to the same level as other pollutants in the air, to the point where it cannot be ascertained which pollutant could be the cause of an adverse health reaction. This is 9th grade Science, folks!

nobdysfool,

It's my strong feeling that none of the anti's really believe that SHS kills. They just don't like the smell (they like the grant/settlement money, though).

However, trying to ban 25% of the population because you don't like the way they smell was never going to get up as a frontline argument.

These days, it's only the hardcore anti's who use SHS deaths (in ever increasing, hysterical numbers) to argue banning. Almost everyone else is now saying they don't like the smell, or it makes their clothes stink, or it destroys their dining experience.

Since the time man first discovered fire, until about ten years ago, humans have constantly been surrounded by smoke - first from camp fires, then from wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, then from smokers.

In the space of 10 years, the hysteria generated by the anti's has led to the banning of virtually all sources of smoke in society. So, while for over 1,000,000 years, smoke has been accepted as a normal part of human life, in less than 10 years people have become so oversensitised to it that they shrink back in horror and revulsion from even the smallest whiff.

And what is it that is so dreadful that the people of today cannot live with it, while the people of the past 33,000 generations have had no problem with it? Why, just a little bit of burning leaf.

We have, indeed, become a society of soft-headed, soft-bellied creampuffs!