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OK, but if we go by the "We should ban smoking because secondhand smoke kills people!" philosophy, let's ban everything else that might be inconvenient or harmful in the slightest bit?

NO MORE DRIVING!! Cars throw out gases that are harmful to the environment, I might actually experience a slight cough or two if I happen to be standing RIGHT BY THE FREEWAY! BUT NO MORE DRIVING BECAUSE IT FOULS UP MY AIR! IT MIGHT GIVE ME CANCER ARRRRRRRARAHGH!!

Or better yet, NO MORE SUN! The SUN could give me cancer! Hell, that Baywatch tan I've been working on every summer could give me a TUMOR! THE SUN!! THE SUN MUST BE STOPPED, LEST ONE FUCKING PERSON CATCH CANCER FROM IT!

BUT THEN WE MIGHT AS WELL STOP EATING!! EVERYONE KNOWS PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD JUST MIGHTCAUSE CANCER, IT DOES IN LAB ANIMALS!! No more hot dogs for me. Nope. No more meat because it might have preservatives in it that might make one of my bodily cells go renegade! No more VEGGIES because they put PESTICIDES on them! They'll FOR SURE give us cancer! No more ANYTHING! Well, ice. Maybe ice. BUT WAIT! Ice comes from water, water has to come from SOMEWHERE, and odds are... THAT WATER PROBABLY HAS SOME VERY MINISCULE, MINUTE TRACE OF SOME LITTLE KNOWN AND VERY WEAK CARCINOGEN IN IT! IT MIGHT GIVE ME CANCER IF I EAT 15 BILLION ICE CUBES IN MY LIFE! FUCK!!!

The POINT to all this is, it's insane to make LAWS against something because it's a SLIGHT inconvienience to someone else. So it may cause cancer, it's not as if it'll cause it after ONE BIG BREATH, will it?

"Jeezus, I was perfectly healthy, then I took one big puff of this gas cloud and now I've got ten thousand kinds of cancer! And by the way, since I didn't put on sunblock, I went outside once, and I got SKIN CANCER! Oh yes, then I ate a hot dog in New York, now I've got INTESTINAL CANCER! ARGH!"

On the statistics: More people die in car accidents than do by secondhand smoke, shall we ban automobiles too? Besides, no one said YOU HAD TO STAND RIGHT NEXT TO THE FUCKING FREEWAY ANYWAY, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO STAND NEXT TO A SMOKER?

On smoking being banned in apartments: People could be doing MUCH worse, like looking at child porn, but at least they are doing it in their OWN HOUSE.
It's not as if a significant amount of smoke is getting through the system, if even a 3 pack a day smoker lived next door to you, unless you had walls thinner than paper or more cracks than a big time dealer has in his pocket AND his teeth, the amount of smoke that would get through would not be significant enough to cause cancer unless you lived to be 120, stayed at home ALL DAY breathing it in, and you stood by the cracks WAITING to inhale it.