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DOWNS: Even outdoors? BARBARA WALTERS (Host): What happens? You know there are still people who will get annoyed if you say please don't smoke. What happens in restaurants, for example, where you have smoking areas and non-smoking areas, I mean does this mean that there are going tolbe all new laws every where. STOSSIEL: The EPA says that even if the.government takes no further action, there will be new laws, new rules, because people are alfraid of individual lawsuits. Already youi have workers suing employers saying I gpt sick, and I blame you, because you aLlowed'srnoking in the work place. One woman sued' a restaurant for assault and battery,, because: she had an asthma attack after they seated, her near smokers, so this d'ecision, will make it easier to win these cases, and... DOWNS: Could this be accomplished, John,, without too ,nuch legal action, because if it can be made socially unacceptable, which chewing tobacco was. When: I was a young boy, there were big brass spittoons in every public building. That all vanished because it became socially unacceptable. STOSSEL: And, there's a similarity here, and that it was fear of TB that helped make spittoons go away and maybe people knowing that hurting other people will discourage smoking.. WALT'ERS':: Ed-u-ca-tion. DOWh1S': It makes alpariah out of smokers. WALTERS: How far we have come. DO'WhIS': Thanks, John.