Pete Borden: Cobb park smoking ban would infringe on rights

“Do you know to boil a frog?” A fellow actor asked that of me a few months ago. I admitted that I had not given the matter a lot of thought. He said, “Well, you obviously can’t just drop him into a pan of hot water. He would recognize the danger and hop out. So, you put him in a pan of room-temperature water. He will find it nice and comfortable. Then you, very slowly, so the change is almost imperceptible, keep increasing the heat under the pan. By the time he realizes what has happened, it is too late He is boiled.” The adverse effects of second-hand smoke in closed quarters on a continual basis cannot be denied. Yet little credible research has been done to prove that random, short-term exposure in an uncontrolled outdoor environment is substantially harmful. After reading half

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