… is apparently banning smoking out of doors, on golf courses, where people intentionally stay far away from one another:
Patrick Reynolds of the Foundation for a Smokefree America acknowledged that moving the anti-smoking fight from indoors to outdoors was “cutting edge.”
“But these are in fact reasonable laws,” Reynolds, grandson of tobacco pioneer R.J. Reynolds, said. “Second-hand smoke causes lung cancer.”
If that logic is hard to follow, that’s why it’s “cutting edge.”
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Fact: The American Cancer Society has funded independent, non-governmental researchers and they have determined that second-hand smoke does in fact cause lung cancer and other illnesses. Did you know that non-smoking women who live with smokers are 30% more likely to have lung cancer than non-smoking women who live with non-smokers? And that children whose parents smoke have higher incidence of SIDS, bronchitis, and asthma?