To the editor:

I have a question to the members of Clean Air Lawrence and the group of commissioners who took the legal activity of smoking and devastated many businesses in Lawrence by changing the law to make it illegal without a popular vote of the people and by disregarding the scientific evidence that disagreed with your political position.

My question to you is: Will you do the same to make indoor hookah smoking illegal as well? Do not Middle Easterners and others that partake in this activity also deserve your protection, or are they different and not affected by secondhand smoke like the rest of us? Both hookah smoking and cigarette smoking are social activities deeply rooted in the tradition of our cultures.

Why do you press for one to be illegal and not the other? Is this political correctness gone awry? Many in Lawrence would love to hear an explanation.

Tom Conroy,

Lawrence