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It is ridiculous to add ban to e-cigarette

Published: 2011-04-12    Views:198 reads

This is a big overreach. The EPA found in 1993 that "second-hand" smoke was a carcinogen. Even though the study was flawed in several ways (which even lead to the EPA being censured by congress for changing the standards when the study didn't produce the desired results), it has become the basis for smoking bans all over the country. As if this affront to property and individual rights weren't bad enough, now Madison county's Board of Health has added electronic cigarettes to their smoking ban, saying that electronic cigarettes, which produce no smoke, are bannable because of the EPA finding against second hand smoke. It's ridiculous.

Ms. Brown said that because they don't know how e-cigarettes effect people that they should be banned. What kind of logic is that?

When are we going to wake up? It's not about public health, it's not about safety, it's about control. The BoH members don't like the fact that some people engage in a specific behavior and want to ban that behavior. Then when people discover an alternative to the said behavior which by the BoH's own standards should be an acceptable compromise, they ban that too.

The bottom line is that if you want to ban something, shouldn't it first, at the very least, be proven to be dangerous? There are no facts to be found in the words: might, possibly, could, or have the potential to.