What I'm getting at here is that I've noticed a very clear social stigma attached to cigarette smoking. Whether this is justified or not is irrelevant--I happen to agree with Fury that it is not, but that doesn't make it go away. It's easy to get behind something like this--just as it's easy to raise the cigarette tax every year in lieu of fixing the budget--because smokers as a group are looked down upon anyway. I'm not saying this is the only or the primary reason this ban was passed, but I don't think you and Fury should dismiss it as easily as you have.
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