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Jump to full article: The Current (University of Missouri-St. Louis), 2009-11-09
Intro: While it's no big secret that smoking can harm your health, the ban that St. Louis County voted on and approved Tuesday is misguided. . . .
For a non-smoker, this means clearer, fresher air in their favorite public place. For a smoker, it means freezing outside in the wintertime, only to receive dirty looks and fake coughs from passersby. However, even non-smokers can agree that the way the ban, or Proposition N, is being executed is wrong.
First, less than 20 percent of eligible voters voted last Tuesday . . .
Second-hand smoke kills right? Actually, there are studies, not well publicized by the government or anti-smoking campaigns, which show the effects of secondhand smoke to be statistically irrelevant. However, there are studies that say precisely the opposite. . . .
Stopping the spread of second-hand smoke may seem noble at first glance, but the way St. Louis is doing it is limiting both personal freedoms and harming small business owners who cannot afford lobbyists to get them onto the elite "exemptions" portion of Proposition N.
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