If the health aspect was the primemotivator in this bill, a law making tobacco as illegal as heroin, crystal meth or narcotics without a prescription would have been introduced instead.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) rather than mostly on their own initiative in the wake of a hot story? (Police read blogs and use iPhones just like everyone else.) Should it come out that Apple was the primemotivator of a raid on a journalist's house, expect considerable critical commentary for it being heavy-handed.