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Several years ago, I lost two of my closest friends—both smokers??to tobacco-related diseases. Their deaths motivated me to quit smoking myself and to begin a campaign to protect bar and restaurant workers from secondhand smoke, an EPA class-A carcinogen that kills over 53,000 noan-smoking Americans every year...
...Delta Gamma sorority. In a typically sweet-hearted gesture, she delivered candy and Britney Spears cards to the brothers in celebration of Valentine’s Day. She serves as a consultant on the coolness of the rushes during the pledge process and then attends “smokers??—the get-to-know-you gatherings for brothers and new members...
...according to Lauren Meany, a bartender at Redline, smokers??many of them students—generate complaints among the bar’s older customers...
...compelling interest in the health of its citizenry—is unpersuasive. It is incredibly paternalistic and condescending toward the tens of millions of Americans who make the conscious decision to start smoking, knowing the harmful health effects associated with it. The logic of the argument is that smokers?? loss of liberty is less important than the government’s compelling interest in smoker’s health, and the underlying assumption is that the government knows what is better for people than people themselves...