[Just another Joe]

but health inspectors (not legislators) still restrict where and at what times one can smoke.

Health boards/inspectors should have to PROVE that a danger exists to those around before they start restricting ANYTHING.

[MacDorcha]

ok, cig smoke is poisoness. they proved it. drinking or inhalling amonia is also poisoness. they proved that. regardless of if you smoke or are around someone else who is, you are breathing the same air.

need more proof aside from health that its bad?

smoke devalues property. cars, houses, boats... only 70 percent of what the same car/boat/house would get without smoking.

smoking costs money. upwards of 2000-5000 a year for the average smoker. that doesnt include chain smokers, and people who smoke more than one pack a day.

smoing costs time. busisnesses lose productive time letting smokers have 5-20 mins a day just to go outside and light up. thats 1250 mins on the low side annual. (and yet they get the same pay as non-smokers, costing even more money)

smokers have to pay more on health insurance.

smoking causes dental troubles. raising dental costs also.

smoking leads to heart disese, lung cancer, and throat cancer.

people in their 40s can lose the ability to talk because of smoking.

a hole, called a stoma has to ripped into there neck just so they can talk (and smoke).

still not convinced its bad? apparently smoking causes brain dysfunction too then. i agree with the bill, that does not make me someone who thinks the govnt should run or lives; that makes me someone who thinks people who dont know whats good for themselves shouldn'trun our lives. (or their own for that matter)