Whether Environmental Tobacco Smoke is regarded as a risk or as anuisance, it is no justification for turning 50 million people intosecond class citizens. Being forced to stand, like animals, outside in the weather is not anacceptable solution in an otherwise free and civilized country. Thank you for your attention. Following is a sample speech. It was deliveredat a Santa Clara, CA City Council hearing on a proposed total indoor smokingban.
Freedom is the most basic precept of our society.
Today it is threatenedby modern Carry Nations with an ayatollah gleam in their eyes. Let's examine thatrisk. This condition can cause heart attacks and strokes when thedeposits are thick enough to block the passage of blood. This is like saying that if amillion people cross a body of water 10 feet deep and 100,000 drown, then1000 would drown in water an inch deep. The claim of 50,000 is absurd, andthe EPA has dissociated itself from it.