As I get older and my asthma gets worse, I am more and more grateful for today's anti-smoking laws and the prevailing social attitude that made them possible. If smoking were still allowed in restaurants and pubs, I would never spend more than five minutes in a commercial dining establishment, and if the tide had not turned on accepting smoking in people's homes, I would have no social life at all.

Every smoker who kicks the habit makes my life just a bit better. So, Ed, from the bottom of my struggling lungs, thanks a million!