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I would never smoke around someone that I know has asthma or any other problem related to smoke..............

I'm 44 years old and have only known 2 people in my life with asthma that are now adults.........both of them are smokers.

I grew up in NYC and never met anyone with asthma until I was in my late 20s (the 2 mentioned above) and living in Delaware. After that it seemed that I was forever meeting people that had children with asthma, and they were all non-smokers. They were also fanatics about cleanliness - I mean, eat off the floor clean types. Drip something on the counter and the antibacterial wipe came out type.

I truly believe, and there is much evidence to back it up, that the antiseptic lifestyle so many people are choosing is not healthy. I had my daughter much later in life than most people I knew - but I guarantee they would be appalled that my attitude about her going out and making a mud puddle and jumping in and getting covered in mud is - OK strip down and get in the tub. she's a child, she's supposed to play and children get dirty - big deal.

Sorry for my rant - but the same kind of people that would deny a child playing in a mud puddle are the same that will deny a business owner making his own decision about clientele.

I would never smoke around someone that I know has asthma or any other problem related to smoke..............

Neither would I, nor would I push down little old ladies to get on the bus first, or park in handicap parking spaces, or drive through red lights, but some nonsmokers would walk the length of a football field in a public park to stand next to you and complain or stand in their yard and stare at you with disdain because you wish to sit on your deck in your own yard and light up. The problem is smokers do not benefit one cent from anything derived from the money received by the states from lawsuits and frowned on as some sort of lepers. As long as we smoke you cannot make nonsmokers happy, period. I believe in capitalism and free enterprise and if allowing people to smoke in restaurants and bars puts them out of business then it will stop because the owners want to satisfy the customers who keep them in business whoever they are. How can it be fair for a couple of nonsmokers to decide the well being of a business. Same problem is repeated over and over in other social issues, let the free market take care of it not the government. :)