Recently many commercials on TV and radio complain that the law which prohibits smoking in public places doesn't protect waitresses in saloons, bartenders and such from the harm of second hand smoke. Has anyone heard of second hand smoke causing the beating of a wife or child, auto collisions that kill and maim thousands annually, bar fights, people killing in rages, careers being destroyed, or people to pass out in gutters?
In the 1920s the unsympathetic American people proved that all the deaths, beatings and ruined lives caused by alcohol, weren't sufficient cause for them to give up their booze, so the alcohol industry thrives and many profit from it. Those employed in the industry appear to be totally careless of the evils of alcohol; yet they want sympathy and protection from smoke.
I am for the banning of smoking in public places, but I just can't muster up sympathy for people who complain about suffering from an evil which threatens them while they are in the course of personally profiting from what they must know is an even greater evil.
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