People here - certainly in my town - appear to have accepted the fact that smoking is anti-social; a problem you appear to have trouble grasping.
A few months after the ban was introduced a crowd from one of the local bars went to Lewes for a week-end out. During the evening one of them was discovered outside the pub smoking, and when he was told it was ok to smoke inside he replied "it doesn't feel right any more!"
A few honestly answered questions might sort all this out.
Fact - smoking kills - it says so on the box.
Fact - passive smoking is unpleasant to the non-smoker and potentially detrimental to the health of anybody in the vicinity - the first questions I am asked by my doctor when I visit him (regularly) for my respitory problems are, "do you smoke?" and "do you spend any time in a smokey atmosphere?"
Question - do you accept the general opinion that smoking damages the health of smoker and non-smoker alike - if not, on what grounds?
Question - If you do, how do you justify your insistence on being allowed to continue to endanger the well being (and even the lives) of others?
As I said before - get used to it - it's here to stay!
Jim Carroll