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I really wish the smoking police would leave us alone. Smoking is not an illegal activity and the argument of saying beaches are ashtrays is a joke.

I've been on some beautiful beaches that are soiled by dog poop, cans, litter etc. If smoke bothers you in the outdoors there is something wrong with you.

Come to any public Galveston beach area late on any warm Sunday afternoon and see all the litter left by the Mexicans. And the trash cans will be practically empty.

Cigarette smokers are the least of their problems. Everyone that I know that smokes on the beach as well as the rest of the families that used to go there always took their trash with them.

[[If smoke bothers you in the outdoors there is something wrong with you.]]

There isn’t one iota of evidence that stray smoke particles that might waft their way towards a person out in the open causes cancer or breathign problems because the amount is so miniscule and so diluted and broken apart by air currents by the time it reaches a person as to be effectively harmless- Yet these smoking nazis in their self righteous ‘shove it down everyone’s throats’ mentality just make crap up claiming it’s a ‘danger to society’ and smokers just rolled right over and took it- They SHOULD HAVE taken this to court and demanded that the people tryign to ram through the asinine law PROVE that smoking on a beach was directly responsbile for ANY cancers or breathign problems- they hsoudl have been made to provide the SCIENTIFIC PROOF that is was such a danger as to warrent imediate passage of said laws- Infact, IF smokers rights groups were to launch a lawsuit they probably still coudl get a judge to halt all outdoor bans UNTIL such proof is provided- but I’m not seeign smoker’s rights groups launchign many lawsuits for some reason

If smoke bothers you in the outdoors there is something wrong with you.

So, if someone has a bad case of nasty flatulence from a heavy dinner of bean burritos, you have no issue with them being up-wind of you, because it is outdoors?

You need to understand that the smell of smoldering tobacco is as noxious as bean farts to many people, no matter how much you may enjoy inhaling one or the other.

It comes down to not befouling the air of others. No one gives a damn what you you to your lungs, just do it elsewhere.