(PUC - MG -2000)Raymond Sasso has smoked since his

(PUC - MG - 2000)

Raymond Sasso has smoked since his early teens. He used to sit in the San Francisco hairstyling salon where he worked, enjoying a cigarette while waiting for his next client. Then California passed its anti-smoking legislation, Assembly Bill 13, banning smoking in all public places. Sasso could still smoke, but he had to do it outside. "Not being allowed to smoke at work got me started", says 44-year old Sasso. "But the smoking ban in bars and restaurants is what really got me going". Late in 1995 Sasso co-founded FORCES (Fight Ordinances & Restrictions to Control & Eliminate Smoking), a political-action group dedicated to promoting and protecting the right of smokers. FORCES is only one such group. Others include the American Smokers Alliance, Friends of Tobacco, the Smokers Freedom Society and AIR (Americans For Individual Rights). Set up by Los Angeles bar owner John Johnson, AIR openly and loudly defies the smoking ban in bars and has become a focal point in the area for dissatisfaction over the state's extreme anti-smoking position. AIR was established to resist what Johnson calls dogooder politicians who are gradually taking away individual liberties and subverting citizens' ability to make informed choices as to how THEY should lead their lives.

(FROM: Speak Up, June 99 - adapted.)

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