"I suspect most Americans think that the $368 billion penalty extracted from the tobacco industry was inherently unfair."
Unfortunately, the author might be wrong. Indiana has been considering an NYC-style smoking ban for some time now, so I've asked my co-workers what they think about it.
The vast majority of people I talk to say something along the lines of: "I have the right to go out to a restaurant and not smell smoke. We need to ban smoking."
Scary!
That is sad.. What is ever sadder is that the same people would like to have the Government kept out of there lives. I don't like cigarette smoke, however, I'm not going to tell a business that they will be a non-smoking establishment. If I don't like it, I'll go elsewhere. Plain and simple.