New smoking law

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060316/us_nm/life_smoking_dc

So this little pissant town in Califnornia--where else--has banned smoking entirely--that's right, you can no longer smoke ANYWHERE outside. It's illegal. Why? Because second hand smoke is considered a toxic emission. That's right--a harmful substance polluting the atmostphere.

Never mind that cars, SUVs, jets, freaking LEAF BLOWERS put more toxic emissions into the air at a much higher rate, causing holes in the ozone and the fucking greenhouse effect--never mind that wars are fought over oil and cause more gore and death--never mind all that, let's target second hand smoke as the giant bogeyman of all toxic gases.

Don't make me laugh.
If they really cared about banning toxic emissions, they'd tell people to quit driving.

Is my one puny cigarette a day smoked outdoors in the great wide open spaces where once the Marlboro man gigged his pony into a manly gallop across freshets of white water is going to cause death and destruction for my fellow beings?

The Marlboro man, you may notice, was actually a pretty environmental guy. He didn't drive. He RODE A HORSE. The only gas horses emit is a mild form of methane. And if he wanted to smoke some nice tobacco while he trotted on his environmentally sound vehicle named Old Paint or Bullet or Silver or Trigger, wearing chaps and eating beans, well then, no harm done.

Jesus Christ, the perspective in this country is freakishly skewed.
I need a cigarette.
Ugh.