Monday, March 3, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
All these are more examples of the establishment's assault on the tobacco industry and are intolerable.
I don't smoke and haven't for 23 years, and I don't recommend that kids get started on it, but these actions are really assaults on our freedoms. Tobacco is still a legal substance. The trouble is that school officials have a soft spot in the rules, because parents are more than willing to shift parental authority to them. You know the story: I'm glad you're doing something, because we can't do anything with our kids.
I'm 73 years of age. I went through those years of smoking cigarettes, finally settling on cigars, then a pipe. Let the kids alone; they can get through it too.
Don't get me wrong; there have to be smoke-free areas to protect those who do not want to smell it, but overall abolishment? No way.
Let's make sure the school board or school officials don't pull a trick here like they did in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Bill Baird
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