60 minutes piece on smokeless tobacco.

There is a new product called snus. It is a small packet of tobacco. It is much safer than smoking. It doesn't affect the air around smokers. As a non-smoker, I think it is a great product. It allows those addicted to nicotine to get their fix without poisoning the air I breathe.

Anti smoking bans were put in place not to keep smokers from killing themselves, but to prevent their addiction from affecting the health of non-smokers.

In their show, it said that tobacco companies were prohibited of advertising snus as a way of quitting smoking. In Europe, it clearly was an effective way of quitting smoking.

So the tobacco companies advertise that it is great way of getting nicotine where smoking is prohibited. So public health advocates complain that people will use both products.

Of course they will, Tobacco companies are prohibited from saying their product can help smokers quit.

Yet another unintended consequences of the stupid laws we have in this country.