Comments from feedback form - "The wording of the fourth para..."

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.