They are the sub servants to Uncle Sam's dominatrix. Tobacco is a cash cow for both the federal and the state governments. The federal government and a majority of the states make more money per pack of cigarettes than the tobacco companies themselves make. This is why smoking will never be outlawed. If I didn't know better, I would swear that they were performing some kind of experiment to see how high they could tax an item before a revolt.
Junk science runs amok when discussing the perils of second hand smoke.
Scientists have tried to prove that second hand smoke poses a serious health risk. The problem is, they have yet to do it. This is not to say that second hand smoke is healthy, it is just that they do not have the scientific grounds to determine it as a legitimate hazard. They have tried to tie second hand smoke to lung cancer, heart disease and every other know plague to man, and each and every time they produced studies that couldn't stand up to peer review. Once again, science is telling us what common sense taught us a long time ago.