"House Bill 282 was introduced in the 2008 Mississippi legislative session on Friday by Representative W.T. Mayhall, Jr., a retired pharmaceutical salesman with DuPont-Merk. "
DUH....who just happens to be heavily paid off by the billion dollar pharaceutical industry that markets weight loss pills. Isn't Mississippi known for having a population with one of the highest IQ's in the country, along side Tampa? (Best known for having the finest medical facilities and infrastructure). Only in MS would such behavioral legislation be brought before it's people, who apparently never read our Constitution.
Let's ban all children on aircraft, DEFINITELY on cruises (who wants to hear your screaming brats). Or better yet, let's just nip the problem in the bud, and not allow breeding without intelligence and parenting screenings. Can we ban wearing K-Mart dresses to formal nights too?
As I said, ignorance reins. Or maybe I should state that more plainly. Never overestimate the intelligence of the public.
Live and let live - or die, if you believe such. It's not your life, it's theirs. And again, no one ever died from being "subjected" to a smoker on the other side of the room. Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, every adult who smoked when it was perfectly acceptable....yeah, they all died young. It was all that drinking and smoking that did it, I think.