http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3999975.stm

This is beginning to get ridiculous ... My favorite part:

Also:

I would love to see the evidence on how many Scots die from second hand smoke ...

<font color=skyblue>Hey,,,think of it as Smoking is a political statement against America, since Tobacco originated here...so if you smoke, you support the US.

Say it like that, and everyone outside the US would stop immediately. :D

Seriously, I read an article that was either African-based or Chinese-based, and it claimed that the US sells cigarettes to other nations with the intent on killing them. This report that I read two years ago in a classroom textbook in college claims that the US cigarettes sold overseas are more hazardous to one's health than the domestic ones, and had some evidence to back it up. </font>

[ 11-10-2004, 01:34 PM: Message edited by: Larry_OHF ]

Alas, poor Yorick, we could use you now -- FOR SOME REAL FIREWORKS. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

Honorable Thread, I hereby dub thee Smoking Ban Round 3. No punches below the belt until at least page 3, please -- *ding* *ding*

Well, I'll see if I can dig you up some stats - passive smoking is pretty lethal.

Having said that, I'm against a ban because:

1) I like the occasional smoke
2) In countries and cities that have banned smoking, its been a real hit on small business like pubs etc.

I'm against a smoking ban on public places myself, except for places like hospitals and gas stations.

On pubs and bars, leave it to the owners.

Without Yorick, it will be a short round indeed. :D

May I...? [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img]

[ 11-10-2004, 05:03 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]

Except the French. I guess they're our allies after all, eh?

Except the French. I guess they're our allies after all, eh? </font>[/QUOTE]SSHHHHHHH Illum, didn't you get the memo, we're trying to give them all lung cancer. ;)

I haven't gotten a memo since I wrote that essay that connected 9/11 to The Vagina Monologues...

A note on the Euro/French comment: The USA has done the best toward anti-smoking efforts when compared with the EU. Just your factoid for the day -- no meaning implied therein.

If you do want meaning -- try this: our anti-smoking efforts in the US have obviously spread far and wide. I think this depravation of liberty in a command-and-control manner is another "crack in the egg" the philosopher Hayek once spoke of. Of course, I have a cigarette burning in the ashtry right now. [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]