When California banned smoking in bars a little over ten years ago, I thought, Uh-oh. We’ve lost all sense of proportion and fair play now. From California to the U.S., and from the U.S. to the rest of the world. I knew that sick, fascist trend would spread like wildfire, and I said the overweight would be next. Most people laughed.

It turned out I was right, but I’m not laughing about it.

Nothing would make me happier than to see the rest of the world tell the fascist police state the U.S. has become to mind its own business. I see the WHO has just launched a new anti-tobacco campaign this very day. It needs a good slapping-down as well.

All those American World War II vets must be spinning in their graves. They thought they were making the world safe for freedom. It turned out they were only empowering the next big wave of pure evil.

Government always responds to those who want greater control over the individual, no matter what that control happens to be. But if you’ll notice, government does not listen to those of us who want less control over our lives and private businesses.

Isn’t that funny?

Mr. Nealon,

Can you tell me why the global news industry is refusing to report that many researchers, scientists, even doctors and politicians, do NOT believe the anti-smoking claims about Second Hand Tobacco Smoke.

Refusing to also report this information along with the junk science claims by anti-smokers is a failure and violation of the News Industry’s Fiduciary Duty to the reading public, as well as a violation of smokers’ Freedom of Speech Constitutional Right.

There has never been a study proving that exposure to smoke kills or harms anyone.

Smoking bans dramatically increase the dehumanization of smokers, increase the hatred of smokers, falsely convicts smokers as murderers without due process of law, violating constitutional rights, and unjustifiably undermines and destroys the smoker’s family, friends, and work relationships.

Bans for Apt, Condo, and Single Dwelling Private Homes is going to herd smokers who cannot get places to live, let alone jobs, in to Ghettos — because we smoke criminally taxed legal tobacco.

What’s happening to us is indisputably Discrimination and Persecution. Soon will come forced treatment programs, Internment Camps, and drive-by executions of smokers.

Let this happen, and ask yourself - who will be next ? Will anybody stand up for your rights when ‘they’ come after you ?

Steve Hartwell, Toronto, Canada. http://www.ventilatedsmokingrooms.ca