smoking ban questions

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Originally posted by Elspode
The smoke stench is disgusting, but it is my right not to go to these places if I don't want to.

It is your right to go to any public establishment without an attack on your health. NYC restaurants, to protect their customers, will sometimes put limosines outside in nearby parking lots for their drug addicted customers.

The cigarette industry long knew that they could get addicts to 'fall off the wagon' as long as they put a 'bottle of gin under the nose of an alcoholic'. The technique is simple and well proven. Get other addicts to smoke in public. Eventually the recovering cigarette addict will fall off the wagon. A typical number is seven years. As long as they can keep putting the gin bottle or cigarette under an addicts nose, then the addict will eventually succumb.

Curious is Phillip Morris position on all this now that Phillip Morris claims to have changed their tune - to actually discourage smoking. Ironically the ploy appears to be working. Phillip Morris has reaped profits where as RJ Reynolds lost money.