Listen up Kern! wrote on Apr 29, 2007 9:40 PM:Not only are you killing yourself with your nasty habit but you are affecting the lives of all around you. Any of your family have asthma? If not, you were lucky.

Candy wrote on Apr 30, 2007 3:20 AM:How big is the atmosphere? Is it self-cleansing over time? If I place one drop of cyanide in a glass of water, will it kill me if I drink it? Why not smoking and non-smoking sections at the beach, like surfing and boogie boarding sections? When will the sacrifice of our civil liberties end? Next, will the police arrest anyone who eats non-organic foods? Will the police arrest anyone who is overweight?

James wrote on Apr 30, 2007 6:34 AM:Since there has not been one documented case of "second hand smoke" killing anyone, or causing anyone a health problem, why are we talking about this? I will tell you why. Liberals want to control everyones lives as much as possible pure and simple, there is no other explanation!

mixed message wrote on Apr 30, 2007 7:42 AM:The troubling mixed message is tha "only 15 % of adults smoke" which (wink wink) means this is a minority we can safely kick around! If outdoor smoke were truly a toxic poison we would all be dead from our own fireplaces.

Roger wrote on Apr 30, 2007 7:59 AM:Perhaps we should stop extending the lives of these people that have all of these genetic weaknessess. Death is simply a way of telling us to slow down. Let's make it illegal to have children if anyone in your gene pool has asthma or other illnesses that are bothered by minute amount of impurities in the air. I'm a non-smokers but you anti-smoking fanatics are simply as ridiculous as the statements I made above. Get a real life in the real world and stop thinking that the world revolves around YOU!

A 15 percenter wrote on Apr 30, 2007 8:22 AM:First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. Pastor Martin Niemöller

Hey try to wrote on Apr 30, 2007 8:39 AM:learn to read, can you read the labels on the pumps at gas stations? It is KNOWN to cause CANCER! Oh wait we are just worried about mother earth, not her children!

Up In Smoke wrote on Apr 30, 2007 9:42 AM:I am more concerned with the air quality on red flag smog days. In LA, they cancel physical education classes that are held outdoors when it is too smoggy. Before the government goes after smokers, it should start requiring corporations to cut down on the pollutants they send into the air on a daily basis. Just one red flag smog day exposes people who work outside to chemicals equivalent to smoking 2 packs of cigarettes.

It's a Myth wrote on Apr 30, 2007 10:36 AM:The whole second hand smoke thing is a myth. You get way more pollution from cars and barbeques and lawn mowers then anything else but nobody wants them banned. How come??? Get a grip!

Ban Cars!!! wrote on Apr 30, 2007 11:22 AM:Not smokers! Oh thats right I forgot, nobody wants to give up driving, even if it kills us!

B4 we get wrote on Apr 30, 2007 11:30 AM:into this issue and global riboff, can we go back and address the bird flu? You know where these same wingnuts had told us millions of people would die. One established case of bird flu in the USA 2002!!!!!!! Tuberculosis Rampant!

Asthmatic wrote on Apr 30, 2007 12:07 PM:Thanks for all the “science” on second hand tobacco smoke, but, being one of the approximately 10 percent who have asthma, I already have all the hard empirical evidence I need. Personally, I think outdoor smoking should have been banned first. Everyone has to share the outdoors occasionally ... be we can choose our restaurants, and other places of business. It is pretty rotten to go to the beach expecting fresh ocean air and breath tobacco smoke. Still I hesitate to urge government to ban smoking at the beach ... knowing how government does things, they would probably make the prevailing up-wind part of the beach the designated smoking area. Then I would have no place to go. As it is now, I just pick out those who look like losers, and camp up-wind from them.

Cartoon Beach Fire wrote on Apr 30, 2007 4:59 PM:I liked a cartoon I saw the other day with someone complainging about cigarette smoke while just adjacent on the beach was someone having a bond fire. I wonder which is more unhealthy? I don't have nearly as much of a problem with the cigarette smoke as I do the BUTTS. I'm riding down the road on my motorcycle one day, and this BUTT comes flying out the window of the car in front of me, and next thing you know I'm riding through a firestorm of sparks as it hits the ground and it is flung up into my path. I wanted to kick the dudes mirror off. I can't even count the times I've seen this, and the number of BUTTS at the beach is DISGUSTING. Too bad smokers can't control themselves when it comes to littering.

sick and tired wrote on Apr 30, 2007 7:52 PM:to all that want to throw rocks: sit in a sealed garage with your car running continuously, and i will sit in the same sized sealed room smoking cigarettes continuously and one thing i absolutely guarantee i will live longer than you. Moral to the story, if you are so concerned about pollutants and air quality, your own selfish self centered interests will turn the rock you thrown back at the glass house your living in. Stop being a hypocrite.