"I am a smoker. I understand and totally agree about the ban against smoking in public places and adjusted very easily to not smoking in restaurants and work etc.
The recent firing of smokers who indulge on their own time is a different matter, however."
Are you really posting on your first day as part of this board in favor of government confiscation of the use of private property, and against a private employer being able to chose who to hire/fire? Why did you join FR?
I undestand what you are saying. My point was that, as a smoker, I had no problem with the banning of smoke in public places.
I DO however have a problem with employer's firing me if I choose to smoke at home on my own time.
This is NOT a contradiction. One affects other's right not to have to breathe my smoke ... the other is my right to do any legal thing I want on my OWN time without being fired.