to anyone here that lives in Florida, my deepest condolences and sympathy, I fear this is the trend and it I have even heard the rumblings of the anti tobacco nuts starting the idea of banning tobacco use in Denver public places.
Years ago the issue of smoking to the anti smokers was coming to a standstill, as since free choice and liberty are so dear to this country, these folks could only go so far to gain their objectives. So what I new then and what I have read then by insightful people is that the anti smoking crowd will have to invent an innocent victim, somenone effected by the actions of the smokers so they can pursue their objectives. Sure enough, the myth of the dangers of second hand smoke were born, starting with a study by a Japanese scientist who now even admitted the flaws in his research but used today as the foundations for other studies. The whole issue of second hand smoke is built on psuedo science yet accpeted as plain fact today, a remarkable achievement for these anti-tobacco folks. There is no sound basis to link any second hand smoke to cancer or anything else. At one time it was okay to debate this subject, (not anymore, if anyone questions the second hand smoke gospel, they are automatically discounted with the wave of a hand as being in the pay of big tobacco) The largest study ever conducted on the subjecet, by the University of Chicago tracked the wives of heavy smokers and found that they actually had a lower rate of lung cancer than non smokers. I am not saying that second hand smoke is healthy, but just that their are very valid scientific arguments against this whole idea of the dangers of second hand smoke.
But if and when the whole facts come out, this country make be entirely smoke free in public.