Dear Freep: Heal Thyself (Please)

Never ones to let being informed get in the way of a good editorial, the Freep has reached new heights of irresponisbility and stupidity in this ill-informed shot at Manitoba's smoking ban:

Why are smoking rooms not allowed everywhere...isolated from the pure-of-lung, they can do no harm and would offer smokers a degree of comfort, instead of the government-imposed pain that outdoor inhaling involves

What the hell were they thinking - or smoking - when they clumsily (albeit perhaps inadvertently) invoked the physician's creed "first, do no harm" (primum non nocere*) to champion smoking rooms? How could the Freep even allow the appearance of using that phrase to support smoking of any kind, anywhere?

And, do they do any research on a subject before putting pen to paper? Like, for example, the fact that second-hand smoke is bad for smokers.

Advice to Freep editors: Cura te ipsum.

*The creed is a sacred reminder - "a hallowed expression of hope [and] humility" - to physicans and health care providers to consider possible harm before intervening with care.