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It argued that environmental advocates were " policy literalists , " too focused on specific solutions to environmental problems and overlooking the hostile political context in which fights such as that over climate change would be won or lost . And that 's how it might have looked in the mid-1990s , too , when anti-smoking advocates were attempting to lobby the Legislature to pass smoking restrictions in Nevada and the federal government was weighing a national ban on smoking in the workplace . Consumer advocates had opposed the merger from the beginning but put the best face on the compromise , especially on the issue of network neutrality , which can be loosely defined as the idea that all Internet traffic should be treated equally . The advocates were also uncomfortable that the public 's inability to distinguish between " good " and " bad " wind development might lead people to remember only that environmental advocates had opposed wind development in general . Anti-smoking advocates commended the House of Lords for approving the measure . Nearly 100 researchers and rural health advocates met August 13-15 , 2000 , in Washington , D.C ., to identify needed research in the area of rural health .