Libertarian candidate for the U.S. Senate, Tom Oyler, believes that a ban is the right thing to do.

In the interest of public health and the future of our children it is necessary to ban smoking and all items and substances that may adversely effect our health.

"The Federal Government has spent billions of tax dollars on public health studies and made a lot of people rich. The information that has been gathered is astounding. We should not waste all of this worthwhile information," Oyler said.

If elected to the U.S. Senate Oyler plans on proposing legislation that will ban smoking and all other substances and items that pose a risk to our health and our children's health.

Oyler said, "The benchmark for determining a risk to our health will be second hand tobacco smoke. The relative risk to our health is well documented and accepted by members of the U.S. Congress, State legislatures, Public Health Agencies, the AMA, and other organizations. This benchmark can be found in the EPA document EPA/600/6-90/006F on pages 5-28 and 5-29. The benchmark is a relative risk factor (RR) of 1.19 at a Confidence Interval (CI) of 90%. Few will dispute that these numbers pose a significant risk to our health and that of our children." (Note: The smaller the RR the less risk and the greater the CI the more likely that the RR may be significant.)

"If you believe that smoking is dangerous to your health then you must believe that anything that poses the same or greater risk to your health is dangerous. To believe otherwise is irrational and illogical," Oyler said.

"Do not let this proposed legislation mislead you," Oyler said. "There are many items and substances that pose a significant risk to our health. This proposed legislation will comply with the "Rule of Law", i.e. no group will be discriminated against, targeted for taxes, and no group will be granted a privilege.

EXAMPLE: The RR for brassieres is 12,500.0 at a CI of 95%. (Source: Science Without Sense, written by Steven Milloy, Director of Science Policy Studies at the National Environmental Policy Institute, published by the CATO Institute.) Brassieres will be banned under this proposal? "Yes, the proposed legislation will ban brassieres," Oyler said.

"I agree this is totally absurd," Oyler noted. "But the data shown above are accurate. The American people have been led down a path fraught with lies and distortions about public health issues. The U.S. Congress and other public institutions have created a chimera. One way to dispel this mythical creature is to illustrate the improbability of its lies and distortions."

Tom Oyler