Actually, there are a number of questions about the origonal EPA report on second hand smoke.
http://www.consumeralert.org/fumento/passive.htm The report noticed an increase in cancer at a rate of 2 per million - which any research scientist will tell you is statistically insignificant - less than 1 thousandth of a percent.
Saying that smoking will kill you also ignores a number of things. Things like, many non-smokers get lung cancer, and many life long smokers don't get cancer. As genetics improves we may find that smoking increases the rate at which genetically inclined people develop cancer - or maybe not. Smoking does seem to be the most obvious cause, but is by no means the sole cause. However, all cancer victims drink water... makes you wonder doesn't it?
How many scientists does it take to figure out if eggs are good for you or not?
Children however, are very bad for my health. There is a stastical evidence that shows that prolonged exposure to other people's children, raises my liklyhood of killing that child and then become sentenced to death.
I started writing this before godxzilla posted his facts. Hey godxzilla, could you post where you got those facts from? This is the internet, I can check your work. Otherwise you got your statistics from where I got these statistics...
* Secondhand children cause rashes on all mice
* Secondhand children a known carriers of the plague
* Secondhand children kill 40,000 migrant workers every second
* Secondhand children cause an estimated 20 billion dollars in property damage every week
* Secondhand children are the number cause of wedgie related accidents
I got those facts from my ass. This is why I didn't link to them - as my ass doesn't have a URL at this time. (I'm just being a dick about you not citing your source... nothing against you of course...)
But my point all boils down to this. If you don't like smoking, why do you have to get the government to ban it? Can't you just go to a bar that doesn't allow it? It's called exercizing freedom. What you have done is called restricting freedom. This is my main problem with the whole thing.