Thanks so much for everyone's contributions. I hope you'll keep it up if you have a mind to.

The reason I began this thread was because of something that happened to me on a holiday a little while back.

I was sitting on the most beautiful and pristine beach on an island in the Caribbean, dreaming and minding my own business, when I began to smell something. Sure enough, it was cigarette smoke from a person upwind of me...and from quite a long way away.

At the time I didn't think that much about it, but since then, it's happened almost everywhere I've gone...and in the most gorgeous places. Just being on the wrong end of a breeze meant I had to smell someone else's decision.

I do understand what you said, daylia, about your having also to smell what other people wear. But as far as I know, none of those things you mention can harm you...(and I certainly hope that the smoke wafting into my lungs wasn't enough to harm me) and I think that's the biggest point that's been made here.

Of course it's your choice, and all of us speaking here live in free countries...but...


And again, thank you for all your contributions.

-maggie