One of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the nation took effect Friday in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas. The smoking ordinance, which was unanimously passed by the five-member Calabasas City Council last month, prohibits smoking in all public places, indoor or outdoor, where anyone might be exposed to secondhand smoke.
Truth.
The LaLa Times, an online satire magazine, follows up on this story with the unstated truth:
"When we told the truth of how we lied to people about the potential effects of smoking, we assumed that you people would cut us some slack. But [this] just makes us want to lie all over again."
— Jim Druthers, Tobacco industry spokesman
(Disclosure: I am a contributor to The LaLa Times, but had no part in this particular story.)
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