Anti-smoking groups with a collectivist political agenda, allied with "cancer industry" organizations that rely on fear to enhance their considerable cash flow, have filled the media with claims about secondhand tobacco smoke that are questionable at best, and fraudulent at worst. It's important to look past their shrill propaganda and examine their claims without bias.
The keystone of their argument for banning indoor smoking is that exposure to "secondhand" smoke is a serious health hazard that causes lung cancer. To hear them tell it, there simply is no debate: Studies conclusively have shown a causal connection between lung cancer and secondhand tobacco smoke. In fact, the research studies tell a different story -- a story that largely has been ignored by the media.
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I don't smoke, but I don't want others making decisions for me. But studies like the one above will get no play, it's not the current popular position. Yet the same people who favor abortion by saying, "don't tell me what to do with my body" often seem to be the same people who tell me what to do with mine when it comes to smoking.
Sanity anyone?