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The long term economic effect of smoking bans

#1

In a message dated 2/17/2008 10:01:38 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mickeycrimm@yahoo.com writes:

You mention polluters here. Are you referring to automobile exhaust?
Should I, as a non-driver, have to continue to breath your automobile
exhaust?

I agree, Mickey, that you shouldn't. I think you can help yourself by not
standing in the street for hours at a time playing auto roulette, but if you
want to play I guess that's the penalty. The exhaust will improve, however,
if you vote for the party that wants to force a reduction in greenhouse gases
in auto exhausts just as we voted for the reduction in smoking in certain
places and will continue to vote that way given the opportunity.

Getting off the platform now and getting back to playing VP which is what I
like better than politics any old way.

Karen
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt

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#2

Here's an interesting bit of data to contemplate.
In Ohio there's no smoking in public places and
strippers can no longer touch their customers.

The outcome, the development of underground
strip clubs that allow smoking. Really little more
than fronts for prostitution where smoking is
low on the list of health risks.

Don't have an ax to grind in the smoking debate
but bans lead to unintended consequences.