Swiss Vote Well

From the BBC:
"Swiss reject full ban on smoking in public spaces"

Voters in Switzerland have rejected a total ban on smoking in enclosed public places at a referendum.

Although Geneva voted slightly in favour, results from the country's other 25 cantons showed a majority of voters rejected a full ban. Hotels, restaurants and bars are allowed rooms for smokers In some cantons, more than 70% of voters rejected the ban, according to Geneva newspaper La Tribune de Geneve. Geneva itself bucked the trend by supporting the ban by 52% to 48%. La Tribune de Geneve suggests voters rejected a full ban because they did not want to force the smaller cantons into changing their local laws, and because of resentment at perceived state interference in people's lives.

^  Good for the Swiss. I am glad that people are starting to wake-up and stop making laws that openly discriminate against smokers. I have said it before and I will continue to say it: either make producing, selling and using cigarettes completely illegal or stop making anti-smoking laws that discriminate. I am all for non-smokers (I don't smoke) not having to breathe the smoke from others and with all the new technology today they don't have to with sealed areas/rooms, etc, but I will never understand how local, state and federal governments can enact and enforce anti-smoking laws that take away smoker's rights and regulate them to second-class citizens. We all need to take a hard look at the Swiss and change our anti-smoking laws. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19690450