[Terpesman]

That's true, private businesses should be able to do what they want. If they want to risk the loss of business, they can keep acting however they want.

But, in states where it is illegal to smoke in public places, that means that I don't have to complain to the managers of the business. That's already been taken care of. I should be able to walk from point A to point B without walking through a cloud of poison. And that's where my smoke vs. spit argument came from. If a smoker feels the need to blow smoke on me in a PUBLIC, NON-SMOKING area, can I spit on them and call it even?

???

[JoeSixPack1]

You are insane.

[Freedom Dignity n Honor]

If you spit on a person in this day and age, you could be arrested for assault or attempted murder. Aids...Hepatitis, etc.

[Protagoras]

But, in states where it is illegal to smoke in public places, that means that I don't have to complain to the managers of the business.

Businesses are not public places.

[Doc On The Bay]

SIGH!

When you "Walk Down the Street" in Wheeling WVA, I can GUARANTEE you have been exposed to innumerable Carcinogens in the "effluvia from" the Steel Mills in the area.

There is NO RELIABLE EVIDENCE that "Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke" is Toxic.

The "Jury is still Out" on "Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke."

AT VERY LEAST, there are FAR MORE RISKY ENVIRONMENTS than "Downwind from a Cigarette Smoker!!"

AS A GUESS, I would BET that the "Second-Hand Smoke from an "Oak-Burning Wood Stove" would be MORE DANGEROUS than "Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke!!"

THIS is an Issue of HOW RESILIENT the HUMAN SPECIES is; do we succumb to the SLIGHTEST INSULT, or are we "Pretty Tough;" are we SO FRAGILE that the "Slightest Insult" annihilates us, or are we "Tough Enough" to Tolerate Multiple Traumas; Built to Survive DESPITE the "Insults" Life Presents us with!!

The "Anti-Smoking Wimps" seem to believe that Humans are SO FRAGILE that the mere Exposure to "Second-Hand Smoke" will result in DEVASTATING PHYSICAL DEGENERATION-&-Possibly-INSTANT LUNG CANCER!

Despite MOUNDS of Evidence to the Contrary, the "Anti-Smoking Paranoids" have been CONVINCED THAT even the SLIGHTEST EXPOSURE to "Second-Hand Cigarette Smoke" will DOOM THEM to a HORRIBLE DEATH.

Because of the "Quasi-Religious Nature" of the "Belief System" of the "ANTI-Smokers," NO SCIENTIFIC DATA seems to be able to penetrate their "Belief System."

SO BE IT!!

I HOPE the 'Feds make "smoking" ILLEGAL!!

I'll make a LOT MORE MONEY smuggling cigaretts than trying to be an honest 'Doc!!