Smoking Ban May Be Terminal

Efforts to expand the ban on smoking in public places have failed.  I suspect that next year this bill will resurrect, like a zombie in a B horror movie.  The caption to the photo currently on the Rapid City Journal homepage (may be gone by the time you get there) is of two people at a bar in Rapid.  One of the people pictured, one James Fahey, is quoted as saying, "If there is no public smoking permitted, then why should we even bother selling them."  That, Mr. Fahey, is precisely the point of the tobacco Puritans.