"These discussions always dissolve into minutia and off premise arguments. I listen to smokers trying to justify their position and act as if they have a right to inflict their poison on the rest of us. You don't have the right to spread poison in the atmosphere that I MUST breathe. Said another way, it is not up to me to accomodate you in your quest to poison yourself by putting myself at risk. There is no inherent right on your part to pollute the air around me and endanger my life. Should you have the right to put this stuff in your own body? IMO, yes you should. But it is incumbent on you to find a way to do it without inflicting it on others in public places and public businesses. Public places, and public businesses, are not the place as there are those that don't want this around them for justifiable, health related reasons.

In other words, it's your problem, not ours"


I have never seen the right of this better expressed. Well said Mick.

Don T. (who was a heavy smoker for fifty three of his sixty six years, and now feels the benefits of quitting, and not being forcee to continue second hand.)