“Proposed Florida Public Smoking/Vaping Ban” This is Something to Think About 11.26.25
Something to Think About
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“Proposed Florida Public Smoking/Vaping Ban”
Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”
Air Date Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Have you had to deal with secondhand smoke in a public place? It only takes a second to detect someone smoking a cigarette, taking a marijuana toke, or vaping like a steam engine.
Since I was 16, I‘ve been aware of smoking and its deadly health effects. I watched my dad with his World War II-era smoking addiction inhale many Pall Mall cigarettes.
That addiction was a factor in his 1971 life-ending stroke.
Today, I have a compromised immune system due to chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
That’s why I support Florida House Bill 389 by Rep Andrade, to protect people from the health hazards of secondhand tobacco and marijuana smoke and vaping.
The bill would propose amending the Florida Constitution with the new Florida Health Initiative.
Bill Bunkley is a 20-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs on weekdays from 3 to 5 pm across central Florida. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 29 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. In 2026, he underwent successful open-heart surgery to repair a heart valve. His wife is Toni, his son is Zac, and he attends Idlewild Baptist Church.
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