No Smoking! Except maybe a little. And some MJ

“It’s widely known that secondhand smoke is responsible for as many as 73,000 deaths among non-smokers each year in the United States, and there is no safe level of exposure.” San Francisco city supervisor Eric Mar in proposing ban on outdoor smoking at events held on city property.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/07/19/sf-considers-banning-smoking-at-outdoor-events-except-for-medical-pot/

All smoking … Except … “It’s carefully crafted also to exclude smaller neighborhood organized events such as block parties. And also, importantly, it does not prohibit the use of medical cannabis,” Mar said.

Mar also said “he does not foresee the city being able to actively enforcement this tobacco ban if it becomes law.”

So this dude proposes a law that he admits cannot be enforced. Doesn’t that fall under the “Stupid” category?

For the moment, though, let’s forget about categories.

“We now know that 53,800 people die every year from secondhand smoke exposure.”

http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php?id=13

‘Secondhand smoke kills 600,000 worldwide annually’

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/26/secondhand-smoke-kills-600000-worldwide-annually/

“Each year, primarily because of exposure to secondhand smoke, an estimated 3,000 nonsmoking Americans die of lung cancer (and) more than 46,000 die of heart disease …”

http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag/osh.htm

You get the idea. Pick a number. Or, just pull a number out of the air. SWAG is as good as real science.

First link from maggiesfarm. I found the others all by myself.