Effective Technology Could Help Prevent Smoking Ban

You mean you can't even smoke outside within your property borders? Let alone on the street?

My only hope is that when these nannystate activists have finally finished with smoking they'll turn upon each other. In fact, maybe we should hope they succeed on smoking - the way taxes are on tobacco now blackmarket stuff would probably be cheaper and the success of prohibition activities anywhere probably means we'd have a greater array of venues to smoke in!

My apologies for the misunderstanding. I wasn't thinking when I made my post that you are one of our "downunder" FRiends.

My comment was in reference to fact the State of Delaware, where I lived for 21 years, has a smoking ban, but last year I moved to Virginia, which has more sense.

The nanny state activists are going to move on, and then those that supported the smoking bans will finally understand what we have been trying to tell them for years....the nanny-staters don't care about anything but being in control of EVERYTHING.

air filters are proven to eliminate 99.9%

Doesn't matter because we all still know that 0.1% is still more deadlier than Plutonium.

Filters can pull 99.9% of smoke out of the air, A cure for lung cancer is on the way and it won't matter one bit to the anti-smoking Gnatzies

Sadly, I'm afraid you're correct. Any hazard caused by second hand smoke (and a few studies do suggest some hazard) is obviously going to be largest if the smoke is concentrated, and virtually nil if the level is low.

Anyways, maybe, just maybe if we'd taken this tack with the public we might have been able to get a little traction. It's difficult, though, when all the "authorities" that the public pays attention to are all spewing the same misinformation (disinformation). I know in my area at least it seems that I might as well resign myself to not being able to smoke in bars or restaurants. Even if municipalities have left some leeway for smoking, it appears the provincial gov't wants to make it the law in all public places, and they probably won't leave any openings even for business owners willing to bend over backwards to separate smoke and smokers from non-smoking customers. Yep, it really looks like we've lost most of the battles, and soon the war.

As the ban on smoking debate continues Dianne White MD of Essa EU believes that a total smoking ban in the UK would be extremely damaging for the leisure industry and would lead to the loss of thousands of jobs.

At least some people see the writing on the wall, would be nice to have some sensible officials on this side of the dam.

Gabz,

You may be interested to know that while going through the junk still left in my old room at my mother's house, I came across a few replies to letters I'd written to various politicians over the years.

One of them, dated July 1987 (!) was from then NY Senator Alphonse D'Amato. Care to take a wild guess at the subject? It was clearly a reply to a letter of mine warning of the slippery slope of the first smoking bans (in this case it was discussing the Long Island Rail Road's decision to eliminate the smoking cars from their trains).

There is another letter discussing the very first case of hiring discrimination (I believe it was the first in the country at the time). Fortunoff's was (and is) a local jewelry/fine china/housewares powerhouse here in New York, and made headlines back in the mid-80s for refusing to hire a smoker, even though she was willing to sign a contract that stated she wouldn't smoke while on the job. The woman sued Fortunoff's, but lost. The court cited the private nature of the company, and said they had a right to set their own smoking policies. Imagine that -- a PRIVATE company being allowed to set its own smoking policy. My, my, my...how times have changed, no?

1987. 17 years I've been fighting this battle -- and I was just a kid back in '87, barely 22 years old.

Regards,

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