So is Armstrong playing politics now?

I jsut saw this and thought it was interesting:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=18&u=/ap/20050504/ap_on_re_us/austin_smoking_ban.

Lance’s foundation’s involement in issues that relate to cancer is nothing new and certainly doesn’t fall under “lance playing politics”. In fact if he made a strong statement in support of the smoking ban in the workplace I don’t think anyone would find fault with that.