The New Prohibition
Otto at The Otto Show on Jun 30 2006 at 10:07 am | Filed under: View from the Left
Step a-side, global warming! There’s a new panic in town that tells us that we will all die horrible deaths long before the polar ice caps melt and flood New York City. US Surgeon General Richard Carmona (long-time anti-smoking advocate) declared, in a long-winded and bloated report, that second-hand smoke is the new evil crisis facing America.
What the report comes down to, it seems, is that we more or less have to bulldoze any building that people have ever smoked in. According to Newsday, “even brief exposure, doctors say, can cause immediate harm.” A press release from Nymox states that the Surgeon General’s report “notes that even a brief exposure to second-hand smoke has immediate adverse effects on a person’s cardiovascular system.”
I’m getting the impression that non-smokers out there might be better off just smoking!
