[speekinout]

Once the big city goes smoke-free, Africk said restaurant groups and other business interest typically stop fighting the ban and support a state ban as a matter of equality for competitors.

That seems to be true. In my area, there's a county ban that the restaurant and bar owners fought. They lost. Our city has no restrictions. Business in county areas is down 30%-50%. Business in the city is booming.
The county restaurants are converting to carry-out operations. Some of them even have curb-side delivery.

And now the city is being pressured to enact a similar ban. Guess who is pushing that?

[qam1]

Science has since caught up, providing much clearer evidence of the danger.

It has I would like to see this evidence or at least one death certificate showing the cause of death to be second hand smoke

[sergeantdave]

ban smoking areas in even private clubs such as the American Legion...

What can I say? Well, maybe this: If the members of this AL go along with the idea of a wimp, left-wing fascist, wanna-be Hitlers telling a private veteran club what it can or can't do, turn in your medals, buy rubber bands to tie your balls off and get fitted for pink tu-tus.

My instinct and hope is that the vets will straighten these fascist pricks out real fast.

[Gabz]

They were electronic form letters sent by anti-smoking groups.

They did the exact same thing in Delaware. One of the daily newspapers actually had the NERVE to call them on it and refused to print the letters from people outside of the state. The other daily paper printed nearly all of them, because the editorial policy of that paper was in support of the ban.

The sleazy tactics of these anti-smoker groups needs to be publicized more and more.