Originally Posted by eroswebmaster

Growing up my mother smoke. Now 3 of her children including me have asthma.

Growing up when we went grocery shopping my mother and many others would smoke in the store dropping their butts on the ground and putting them out there. This was something everybody did.

Growing up when we went out to eat the non-smoking section was the smallest and one of the worst locations inside most places. I can't recall how many times we got situation by the swinging kitchen doors.
Not to mention the 1/4 inch glass partitions that seperated our booth from the smoking section really did a fantastic job.

Growing up, becauuse my mother smoked I stunk all the time. I just never noticed it until my parents got divorced and we lived with my dad.
If smokers only realised how awful they smell, I think that alone might make them reconsider the habit.

Sorry if I don't share your concern for smokers. I'm a "morbidly obese" man. But my weight doesn't cause you health issues, you won't see me dripping body fat into the curbs on your street when I'm at a red light.
My weight won't make you smell as you try to walk through all the fat guys surrounding the entrance to the no smoking building.

All in all, my weight doesn't do shit to anyone but me.

I don't think they should swing the pendulum so far in the other direction making people who smoke suffer. But I don't think public places should be a smoke zone.

I live in Vegas where everyone gambles, drinks and smokes. I go to a gas station and they have slot machines there. And I have to sit in a line with people smoking 10 inches away from me just so I can pay for my gas.

I just don't think you should have that right.

Property owners do have rights to do as they seem fit with their own property, but then the city makes zoning laws to regulate health and safety all the time, so I don't see how this could be different.

Quit taking away my choice to breathe clean air when I'm only a foot away from you.

Now when I go into a real casino, a nightclub etc. A place that I expect there to be cigarette smoking. I can't complain. I have made the choice to be there so I can't bitch.

Anyway I'm not concerned about people's "right" to smoke in general. You have plenty of opportunity to smoke in allowed areas and if there is anything in life that you can't wait 30 minutes to an hour to do then I think you have to reevaluate how much control that thing has in your life.