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Jump to full article: Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, 2008-04-02
Author: Ivan Lajara
Intro: The current debate in the city of Kingston pertaining the recently passed plan banning smoking in parks and nearby municipal buildings has many people scratching their heads while they're smoking in parks and nearby municipal buildings.
That proposal bans smokers from altruistically letting fumes containing acetone, ammonia, benzene, cadmium, carbon monoxide, formaldehide, hydrogen cyanide, lead, tar and nicotine from entering your lungs.
(Pause, breathe, cough, continue reading). . . .
The smoking ban is not about enforcement. It's about "the kids."
"The kids," however, are too busy driving while talking on cell phones, having unprotected sex, smoking other plants and posting photos of those very activities on MySpace.com.
The momentum is with the nonsmokers. And a smoking Freeman editorial recently supported the plan, calling it "progress against this public health scourge."
This public health scourge thinks that's probably a reasonable statement.
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