There was overwhelming support from BOTH parties. Only 17 senators said no! That’s an incredible bipartisan vote.
Finally most conservatives and liberals can agree on something: smoking is a poisonous deadly habit—just as the companies are coming out with a candied version of chewing tobacco. God forbid they are actually banned from introducing this poison in yet another seductive form to get kids hooked. To those that think this is about individual freedoms, who pays for 90 per cent of the oxygen bottle refills? And how free is a person tethered to an oxygen bottle in a wheelchair? For one day, gubmint done some good.