Now you wait a minute! We FReepers who smoke are NOT praising smoking. We know that it isn't good for us, but it doesn't kill EVERYone! My grandmother lived to be 86 and I hope I have her genes. You can't fault smokers because we enjoy it.
And what is YOUR relaxation of choice? Alcohol or prescription drugs???
And the most thing we smokers rights are for is the rights of the private business owners to run their business as they want without the interference of the government. The ban loss has been enormous.
There is nothing I use for "relaxation" dozens of times a day. I like a drink with dinner but don't drink one glass after the other.
I even smoke a cigar every few weeks.
It is the obsessive smoking of cigarettes which is the problem. If smokers could limit themselves to a few a day that would be one thing but a pack or TWO? That is almost like coke addicts continually sniffing a line or lighting up the pipe.
It will be the tort courts which will reduce smoking to a small fraction of what we have now. Any employee of private smoking establishments who gets a lung disease or any smoking related illness can sue them into oblivion so allowing private businesses to allow smoking is not too likely.