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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Smoking bans work

Just to follow up on the debate over banning smoking in public places, particularly the bars where I work as a musician, it seems the science is panning out in up to 36 percent fewer heart attacks community-wide once smoking bans are established. So for all your friends who thought we were being a bunch of pansies for not wanting to live with smoke, here's how their right to smoke violates everyone's right to life.

1 comment:

  1. It's only pansy to not have the guts to say you don't want to breath someone else's second-hand smoke all night! I'm glad for the ban too.

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