New Law In CA

[sparroa]

juvat, I've seen similar and more recent articles from the BBC.
This is another article regarding the recent Swiss decision to reject a full public smoking ban.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19690450
"Speaking before the vote, Jean-Charles Rielle, a doctor and member of the committee behind the proposal, told AFP news agency that they wanted to clear up confusion created by the existing regulations.
'In the cantons where these laws [banning smoking rooms] are already in effect, we saw immediately... a 20% drop in hospitalisation due to cardiovascular incidents, heart attacks and these kinds of problems,' he said."
Psychology 101 - correlation does not equal causation - especially if you manipulate statistics to suit your own agenda...

 

[zanthal]

I live in Northern California, and I might not like this law, but at the end of the day ...
they could put the city of San Rafael into a bio-dome and raise the air quality to the interior of an oxygen tank, and outlaw flatulence, and you couldn't make me care.
The idea of completely outlawing tobacco makes about as much sense as smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. They're both ridiculous extremes that the law shouldn't make the average person suffer for.