[cgbg]

convince people that smoking is not bad for your health

I don't think the lies about second-hand smoke are the primary reason for the bans. If health were really a concern homosexuals would be banned from promiscuous sex from sea to shining sea.

Propaganda campaigns are about bigotry and prejudice, not logic or "health".

Every society needs its witches and eh um ah racial epithets or their equivalent. Smokers are just the new damned ones.

[NCLaw441]

You posted: I don’t think the lies about second-hand smoke are the primary reason for the bans.
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I agree completely. The majority are now displeased with the smell and trash assoiated with smoking. The shoe was on the other foot in the 50s and 60s, when smokers were the majority and those who didn’t like it just had to put up wth it. Seems there is little courtesy on either side.

I am a non-smoker, and don’t care for the smell and butts all over the place, but I oppose legislation against smoking, except in public places operated by government, that people have to go into. Otherwise, let the property owner and his patrons decide. Similarly, I think smoking in cars with little children is pretty inconsiderate, but there don’t have to be laws about it.