[lbtbell]

For people like me who have asthma, non-smoking laws allow us to live like normal human beings. Before these laws were passed, we couldn’t go to restaurants, bars, or anywhere that people were smoking. We couldn’t get jobs at places like that, either. Talk about infringing on people’s freedom!

These laws have given people with similar health conditions the chance to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s not a “nanny state”—that’s a guarantee of freedom for all people, not just the ones in good health.

Before you say that it infringes on a smoker’s “freedom”...cigarette smoke doesn’t stay on one place, it infringes on other people’s freedom to breathe clean air. Nobody has the “freedom” to make another person sick. There’s a big difference between a medical condition that can’t be helped, and the immature inability not to go for a few hours without sucking on a smoldering pacifier. If someone’s stupid enough to engage in a habit that will result in COPD or lung cancer, do it at home—quit trying to drag the rest of us to the oncology ward with you.

[Maverick68]

I hate cigarette smoke, but not NEARLY as much as I hate anti-smoking Nazis.....SMOKE EM’ IF YOU GOT EM’ (but I’ll be far away)!

[wardaddy]

My son has adult asthma and it doesn’t bother him

You could always just go to smoke free restaurants

You have to be responsible for your own health to a degree

Dander

Living near a feather pillow plant

Or a gypsum mine or cement plant

And so forth

There will be folks to accommodate you but forced universal accommodation infringes on others as well

And it grows and grows and grows

You can’t smoke in a park

You can’t smoke less than 25 feet from the door

You have to walk off a 200 acre hospital to smoke

Or campus

You can smoke weed in most Boulder hotels but not cigarettes

It’s gotten crazy

We cannot create a world to accommodate breathing issues for everyone

At some point you have to just not go there

Say a basement pool hall with smoking and poor ventilation like Melrose was in Nashville...,I didn’t like it either

That’s how I see it

I feel for you but you have to endure your situation more than the world has to bend

That’s the harsh end of a free culture

Today at 60 I’d avoid places too smokey myself and I too have maladies

I wish I had run of the mill asthma instead trust me

But I don’t expect kids who smoke to give up their fun to accommodate old grumpy me

We used to have common sense

[patriot08]

Drunks have caused more death destruction and heartbreak than smokers ever have or ever will. Where’s th8e uproar?