LETTER: Smoking ban laws don't make much sense

Some smoking bans now include smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes.

The FDA has ruled that tobacco companies cannot tell the public that smokeless tobacco products and electronic cigarettes are 95 percent to 99.5 percent safer than smoking cigarettes or cigars.

There is no smoke, ergo there are none of the harmful toxins that are associated with smoking.

When questioned about their reasoning for including smokeless tobaccos and electronic cigarettes in their bans, government officials will often cite that they don't want smokers using these items to circumvent the no-smoking policies.

So they tell people you want them to quit smoking and yet at the same time you also take away their rights to use smokeless tobacco products in the place of cigarettes or cigars? Something just is not right about that thinking.

Dorothy Taylor