Nice post Picnic-the schizophrenia about smoking irritates me too! It makes no sense. We ban things that MAY have borderline tox problems (the sweetener cyclamate for example-which had far fewer problems than saccharine-which is legal!). Then we subsidize tobacco growers-put MTB in our gasoline-and when its found to be hazardous and insidious we leave it in anyway cause oil companies are making a profit on it and used some crack brained, poorly researched "environmental" reason for putting it in the gas-and then raising the price to pay for it! So we pay EXTRA for gasoline with a poisonous additive that pollutes our water as well as air-and was suppposed to reduce pollution-which it did NOT. Go figure.. BTW I find bars in California which allow smoking and ignore the laws.... Eric Walters