Pending local ban.

Hope this is proper to post this here; just looking for some more information sources.



After the last city council meeting last Monday it appears that they are about ready to ban any smoking in restaurants and bars in the city. It won't effect me much as I only go out to eat lunch a couple of times a week with the attorney I work for and we sit in the non-smoking section, and I don't go to bars.



But I am very opposed to the proposed ban due to the infringement on private businesses (that argument hasn't worked in other towns in this state), the demonization of smokers, and the door that it opens to further restrictions on private businesses (read that the New York City bans on...well, you name it). The newspaper coverage of the council meeting can be seen here.



I have looked at Heartland.org and some of the linked articles on Policy Bot, but I was wondering if anyone had any other sources to suggest that might have some more information about the junk science and data manipulation that is used to ban smoking.



Although it appears that the next council meeting will be a "You can talk but we won't listen" session.