How can you say that the battle for clean air has nothing to do with health? As a cardiac patient, my battle against second-hand smoke is all about health. I don't need statistics when I walk into a venue to sing karaoke or listen to music and have to leave less than an hour later, then pop a nitro and rest in my car before I can drive home because second-hand smoke has caused me to have chest pains and shortness of breath. Or when I develop a migrane and have to go home. Or when I wake up coughing the next morning and can still taste the second-hand smoke I inhaled the night before. All of these things have happened to me on more than one occasion. Oh, yes--it's about health.

And if guards refuse to enforce the new rules in prison, it's about health there, too. I agree that I wouldn't want to be the one who has to tell Bubba, the mass murderer, that he can't smoke when he's having a nicotine fit. That could kill a person even faster than second-hand smoke. But, on principal, I agree that the law should be enforced everywhere. I'd just make sure someone was covering me when I told Bubba he had to hand over his smokes.

Posted by riweber on November 2, 2007 at 4:27 PM Suggest Removal

Now that we've got the smokers under control, we can start going after the fat people who are running up our medical costs. I say ban all fat people from restaurants until they get their weight under control.

Posted by on November 3, 2007 at 9:36 AM Suggest Removal