Comments:All US states could have smoke-free laws by 2020

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ban all smokeing

Noxious fumes from any incinerated object, intenional or not, conceals other hazardous environmental effects. It's also a simple way to use other contraband substances that ,considering the "Tobacco Base?" are smoked in higher levels than are normally necessary to feel their Psychoactive effects and produce radical effects in behavior from second hand smoke; creating the increased opportunity for conspiritory violent (Sexual?) assault & marginalization of individuals from a syndicated "Turf" for other substance abuse & crime! This blows smoke in the face of common decency to expect public welfare to burden the addiction of the poisoned minds. Choose to escape this Smoke Screen Cycle for Poison & Vice Abuse, and implement a nation wide smoke free public ban.

This article fails to provide any definitive proof that second hand smoke kills other than vague allusions to "studies," while at the same time presenting the other side of the debate as only concerned with some vague notion of liberty. To be as fair as seems appropriate for a story touted as news, they ought to have included either citations for whatever studies they deemed proof, or admitted that while some studies suggest a correlation between second hand smoke and death, their scientific accuracy has been called into question since their publication. Here I am thinking of the several studies criticized in the book "Sorry Wrong Number."

Overall, the article was a poor attempt at fairness. I ask not that the author be objective, for such a thing is impossible. I simply ask that they do a better job of either citing their sources, as good journalists ought, or at the very least admit that what they assert as truth is in fact far from regarded as universal.

I totally agree with the CDC inasmuch that banning smoking in public places is the only sure way of protecting nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.

"Gary Nolan of the Smokers Club, a smoker's rights group, said, "It wouldn't surprise me if they prevailed." He noted that heavy pressure is being applied to bars and restaurants by public health officials to ban smoking. "It's just a little bit more liberty slipping away at the hands of big government.""

Right, your liberty being that to damage other people's lives as well as your own. If you stab yourself and me on the same day, and you die of complications 10 years from then, while I die of complications 20 years from then, it's still murder, isn't it? I'm still waiting for tobacco to be declared a chemical weapon of mass destruction. I guess it just doesn't kill fast enough, but then half of the reasons for banning atomic bombs would be gone. Or maybe it's because it wasn't designed to kill. Perhaps if mustard gas had been discovered while someone was researching anesthetics, it wouldn't be classified as a chemical weapon? 66.154.183.15 (talk) 21:00, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

The wording of the fourth paragraph comes off as rather biased: "Southern and western states are lagging in implementing smoking bans."

As far as i can tell this is a very biased article. The writer is clearly in favor of anti-smoking laws.

>implying that's a bad thing

Thats good. People need to use common sense.

The US is in favor of anti-smoking laws because of the high health care costs associated with smoking. They are trying like heck to lower the percentage of the budget the US spends on health care.

Calgary, Canada already has the same laws. If you want to smoke in a bar, you have to go at least 5 meters outside from any doorway, air intake, or window. You also aren't allowed to buy tobacco in any store with a pharmacy in it and stores aren't allowed to display or advertise tobacco products. Calgary smoking laws