Today, In city council, a public hearing was held concerning "the smoke free workplaces act of 2003" which would ban smoking in all public buildings, including bars, restaurnts, and nightclubs if passed.

The smoking ban has many folks "fired up" over property rights or the right to breathe clean air. Some in the restaurant/hospitality sector fear loss of business, in the way that montgomery county clearly has recently in light of their new smoking ban, and others feel that the right to breathe clean air is far more important than the rights of smokers to smoke.The facts of second hand smoke leading to deaths are skewed based on a plurality of issues.