The whole anti-smoking campaign is just a large distraction from more important topics that politicians don't want to have to deal with, because they're complicated and require effort. Even if cigarettes were as bad as the EPA claims, it is still no comparison to the amount of toxins that factories and power plants produce. Houston Texas has public warnings for when the air outside is too dangerous to be exposed to for extended periods, not because the number of smokers that'll be barbecuing is high that day, but because the pollution produced by the oil refineries in Texas City near Galveston is blowing in the wrong way. I don't know what more it'll take for people to realize that some little piece of burning vegetation is last thing we need to be worried with, when the air outside is so awful your doctor tells you to stay INSIDE and get plenty of "fresh" air.
