smoking bans going too far?

[dauker]

okay let's solve this "is second hand smoke bad" thing. Go out, get yourself a mouse. When you enjoy a cigar put a mouse in a sealed container. Blow your smoke into the container. See what mouse eventually dies from. My dog hates smoke. Maybe he is smarter then I am. However I believe in a free market dictating if a private business is smoking or not.

[Mikey-OH]

okay let's solve this "is second hand smoke bad" thing. Go out, get yourself a mouse. When you enjoy a cigar put a mouse in a sealed container. Blow your smoke into the container. See what mouse eventually dies from. My dog hates smoke. Maybe he is smarter then I am. However I believe in a free market dictating if a private business is smoking or not.

I believe PETA would be all up in our ass after that one! hahaha

Creative idea though.

[ashauler]

okay let's solve this "is second hand smoke bad" thing. Go out, get yourself a mouse. When you enjoy a cigar put a mouse in a sealed container. Blow your smoke into the container. See what mouse eventually dies from. My dog hates smoke. Maybe he is smarter then I am. However I believe in a free market dictating if a private business is smoking or not.

This would be lack of oxygen!! Your proposed experiment is pretty much how its done now. And like I said in an earlier post does not accurately reflect the reality of second hand smoke exposure. You could kill the mouse if you pumped nitrogen into the box in a quantity that reduced the oxygen content sufficiently.....and everybody breathes nitrogen with every breath we take. Debating the health effects is really pointless anyway.

The last sentence of your post is the crux of the matter.