My thoughts

I have been thinking....how come we can vote for a ban on public smoking and not even consider voting on a ban for public alcohol (intoxication)? Does the government get more money from the beer and wine companies than they do from the cigarette companies? I have never heard of anyone smoking a 6 pack of cigarettes, getting into a car, and killing a family. When a person smokes, they are just killing themselves - when a person drinks and gets behind a wheel, they could kill a whole family. So, why don't we pass a ban on public drinking???? If people can't smoke in a restaurant, then people shouldn't be able to drink alcohol in there either - it's only fair!! If smokers have to stay at home to enjoy some pleasure, then alcohol drinkers should have to stay at home too!!

I decided to do some research on this topic. 250,000 people have died in alcohol related deaths in the past ten years. (from alcoholism.about.com) From www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/3261/7398/1057 the conclusions were: "The results do not support a casual relation between environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality, although they do not rule out a small effect. The association between exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and coronary heart disease and lung cancer may be considerably weaker than generally believed."

If anyone out there has some data that shows how many people have died from second hand smoke, please let me know. But, I am willing to bet you that more people die from alcohol related accidents than from second hand smoke.

I guess it just boils down to life is not fair. Another "fair" topic should be urine tests. How come the people going to work every day have to sometimes take an urine test in order to earn the paycheck that the government takes money out to give to people who get to stay at home? If the workers should have to take an urine test, then the people getting the free money should have to take one too in order to get that free money !!