Anti-smoking laws are an absolute necessity

Regarding the editorial in the Aug. 2 edition of the Thousand Oaks Acorn titled "Antismoking laws have a dark side," I wish to speak for the estimated 50,000 Americans who die each year from smokingrelated diseases but who never smoked.

Your editorial states that a law against smoking in public places is a freedom of choice issue.

If the toxic fumes that are emitted from burning cigarettes and exhaled from smokers could be contained within the air that only smokers breathe, then your argument would be valid.

As this isn't possible, your argument is invalid as it relates to smokers.

We all deserve the freedom to breathe unpolluted air. Elizabeth Layne Thousand Oaks