[Gabz]

Certainly the "haves" in the smoking fight are the Tobacco companies and the bar owners. There is no big money interest pushing anti-smoking ordinances.

I can't believe ANYONE would say any such thing........First off, the tobacco companies DO NOT fight the smoking bans in any major way, secondly the bar owners fighting these things are generally small business people trying to keep their business going and don't have a lot of time or money to deal with the legislative process.

But the most egrarious part of this is the sentence I bolded.........that is an out and out bald faced lie. The fact of the matter is there is MAJOR money in pushing the anti smoking ordinances, most of it coming from the Pharmaceutical manufacturers of "nicotine replacement therapies."

[justshutupandtakeit]

Oh, please. Nicotine replacement is a tiny market and getting smaller. I doubt there is any significant money spent by them. They don't have to. People have turned against smoking from their own experience especially that of watching their loved ones die too soon because of it.

Tobacco companies stay out of this because they know it is a losing propostion.