--- Thomas Swift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

"They [are] hard at work getting smoking outlawed
within the walls of private residences."

If children are present in a private home, it ought to
be illegal to smoke there. Not only are children
exposed to second hand smoke being put at a risk from
a health standpoint, they are also likely to become
smokers themselves.

It actually makes more sense to ban smoking in private
homes where children are present than it does to ban
it in bars and restaurants. Adults have a choice to
enter or work in the latter while children have no
choice about where to live (this is not to say there
aren't good reasons to ban smoking in bars and
retaurants).

Exposing children to cigarette smoke is a form of
abuse and ought to be treated as such.

Charlie Swope
Ward 1

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