re: New Orleans City Council Passes Smoking Ban

BestbankTiger, you are exactly correct. I've lost my mother, father, sister & all 4 grandparents to cancer. My surviving sister & I have met with oncologists in both Houston & in N.O. to see if we can tell exactly where we stand with all this history in our family. All the experts we talked to said the same thing, cancer, particularly lung cancer, can take decades to develop, so there is no real time line info available. Relating any current cancer figures to any stoppage of smoking by the general public is not relevant. All of my exposure is to second hand smoke, but as I am no longer young, if I have it, I've HAD it for a while. Even with my family history, I don't like the govt stepping into yet another aspect of my life, were I a smoker or not.