This means whichever side and whatever facts are pushed as accepted and legitimate will be taken as being as real and sensible as natural laws. So, we have people in search of an issue to give meaning to their lives, and the media promoting an issue. There are far more serious problems that could benefit from the time, energy, and resources wasted on smoking. Drinkers directly kill more people every year than second-hand smoke could even hope to knock off. Impossible to say, but interesting.
Smoking bans continue to expand.
There are rumblings on the horizon that indicate that, should an employer be feverently anti-smoking, you will not even be able to smoke in your home or car. The Federal government is of course going along with this idiocy, even to the point of planning to dictate smoking policy to foreign airlines when they are beyond our territorial boundaries.