See #35. I don’t believe that anything I wrote would catagorize me as an anti-smoker nanny statist. This man just smelled BAD and it was a stale cigarette smell. I stood far away from him while I waited for him to conclude his purchase.
You seem overly sensitive about the topic. Even King James (of Bible fame) complained about the foul uses of tobacco brought back from the Colonies. He only began to tolerate it when it became a cash crop.
This man smelled BAD to YOU - I have found that anyone who whines about it is, at heart, an anti-smoker and the ones who do whine/complain the most about the “bad” smell are all former smokers.
As to me being overly sensitive, you couldn’t be further from the truth - I have just learned that people with that type of attitude are the first to applaud when another smoking ban (aka attack on freedom) is put into effect. You mentioned employees who smoke outside, did you institute the no-smoking policy on your own, or did you wait for the nannies in government to do it for you?
Shortly after Delaware banned smoking in State buildings a woman walked into my building, which was clearly marked with signs it was a building of private businesses, thinking she was entering the Attorney General’s office. Instead of listening to my explanation of where the AGs office was, she went into a tirade about me smoking in a state building. No amount of explanation would appease her and I asked her to leave - she did and came back with a Capitol police officer demanding he give me a ticket. When she refused to pay attention to his explanation it was a private business and she needed to leave, he finally turned to me and asked if I wished to press charges for trespassing. I chose not to because I actually felt sorry for her. She was so adamant in her stance that she was blind too reality. That is how I see anti-smokers, they are so blinded by their zealotry they can not see reality.