Originally Posted by PR_Tom

With all the debate on smoking and disease, it's easy to forget that car exhaust and emmisions from smoke stacks (especially in port cities) is SO far and away more harmful than any amount of human smoking, it's not even close.

But trying to tell your local huge businesses that they are killing your constituents is not "sexy". So you get anti-smoking laws, and "second hand" smoking fears whipped up into a frenzy. While taxes and emmisions requirements are dropped (in the last 8 yrs anyway)

Look up a map that shows the highest concentrations of asthma and other breathing related disorders and you'll see they all cluster around our largest port cities and other concentrated industrial zones.