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• KNOTT: Take D.C. smoke ban to its illogical conclusion 

D.C. Council member Carol Schwartz touts a smoking-ban compromise in one breath and a claim that people are dying in another.

The latter is unassailable, as the at-large Republican tars the smoking-ban proponents of the D.C. Council with their own argument. There is death all around us in the nation's capital -- death by tobacco, death by alcohol, death by promiscuous sex, death by an infinite number of unwise practices...

I think we all would be a lot healthier if we limited our beverage intake to lead-free water, orange juice, cranberry juice and pomegranate juice. So I am challenging the 13-member D.C. Council today to craft legislation that taxes those establishments that fail to meet a 25 percent, gross-receipts minimum of life-affirming juices.

Give Mrs. Schwartz credit. You want to ban smoking in the city because of health concerns? Then, by all means, we need to do better than that. We can be better than that.

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