( Other postings here on this topic have unaccountably been trimmed. This "smoking" thing is about the environment, toxic chemicals, public health, corporate crime, the war on nature, evasion of liabilities, Big oil, pesticides, chlorine, scapegoating innocent victims and so on. It is NOT just about rude smokers in Pubs...nor about protecting public health. Please offer these links to your environmental groups and others...and to pub owners and their attorneys.)
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** April ('03), the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) condemned lax government monitoring of tobacco pesticides. See: Wash Post >  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32003-2003Apr24.html >  http://ens-news.com/ens/apr2003/2003-04-25-09.asp#anchor2  http://www.ash.org.nz/doc/l-doc/0000573.html#e
>  http://www.harvardhillside.com/Stories/0,1413,108~5342~1420042,00.html
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> ...and these websites for toxic gases from the burning of synthetic fabrics...which happens when a Burn Accelerated cigarette may fall:
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>  http://www.avora.com/fr_body_3.html
>  http://www.fibersource.com/f-tutor/health.htm
>  http://irc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cbd/cbd243e.html

** Australia finally opened up the Pandora's Box about non-tobacco cigarette adulterants, specifically DDT and other pesticide residues.
 http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,7758403,00.html

** And, a huge lawsuit in Israel...not about "smoking" but about ADDITIVES: From newspaper, Haaretz:  http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2003q4/000970.html