"A tip of the hat to The Old Rambler"

The threat of secondhand smoke to the health of non-smokers has been distorted to a point of absurdity.

Given that the millions of non-smoking adults have been exposed to various quantities of secondhand smoke since the fifties, it’s nothing less than a miracle there are any non-smokers left in the country to whine about the sickening smell of tobacco smoke.

But, blinded by the bullshit and bafflegab inherent in the antis' studies and the statistics surrounding them, the politicians are persuaded to impose draconian bans to demean, denigrate and disenfranchise smokers. And, let’s not forget the punitive levels of taxation designed to keep smokers in a perpetual state of poverty.

But, let’s not question the veracity of the estimates. Let’s assume that those figures are absolutely correct. And, let’s also assume that the anti-smoker brigade is telling the pure, unadulterated truth when they quote the US Surgeon General and support his contention that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.

Yes, I know, it will be a major struggle to suspend common sense and accept the logic of the anti-smoker brigade. But, if the politicians and the press can do it with so little effort, so can you.

The antis claim that about 65,000 nonsmokers will die from SHS this year.

There are about 177.75 million nonsmoking adults in this country.

It will take about 2,735 years for all of those nonsmoking adults to be killed off by SHS.

I can with great confidence predict that 99.96% of them will die from something else long before SHS can get to them!!

Gary K.