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Jeanne Brooks-Anti-ban arguments are smoke screens for real issue  

So ask yourself. How happy would you be to discover the sausage on your plate contained a ground-up poisoned rat? And worse. . . .

A hundred years ago, the outcry over filthy and spoiled food helped result in Congress passing the 1906 Food and Drug Act -- known more simply as the Wiley Act, after Harvey Wiley, the government's chief chemist. . . .

Yes, it was government telling business owners how to run their private enterprises.

But the public had come to recognize certain actions required for the common good lie beyond the power of individuals. . . .

Wait. Did someone say it's not the same circumstance today, as far as smoking's concerned, because we have newspapers, TV, radio and the Internet? That anyone who smokes today grasps the consequences?

That's not what a Greenville bar owner testified in court Tuesday afternoon. He and others were seeking an injunction to stop the city from enforcing its smoking ban. The bar owner said his smoking customers "don't understand the reason behind it."

Tobacco companies have spent decades and millions to see to that, a federal judge ruled in August.

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