For years that the smoking ban is more important than the personal freedom of smokers.

Need I say more?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090921/hl_nm/us_heart_smoking_ban

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Smoking bans in public places can significantly reduce the number of heart attacks, two U.S. research teams reported on Monday.

One team found smoking bans in the United States, Canada and Europe had an immediate effect that increased over time, cutting heart attacks by 17 percent after the first year and as much as 36 percent after three years, they reported in the journal Circulation.

A second team found such bans reduced the annual heart attack rate by 26 percent. Their report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology estimates a nationwide ban in the United States could prevent as many as 154,000 heart attacks each year.

I am in 100% sympathy with the ban.

Sorry for my slow reply to this important post, but I was in the hospital due to a heart attack. 

They say it was caused by second hand smoke…