When smokers inhale and hold the smoke in.. instead of letting it out.. for those of us who don't like smoke to be forced to breath..(and not only their exhaled smoke but smoke coming off the end of the burning noxious weed stick stuck in their pie holes)... I will be all for their right to smoke the dang things...
Until then....it's war...and let the best man win...
imo
*puff*
I remember when a man would be embarrassed to whine like this.
You're real cute. Pat yourself on the back for being an intolerant radical.
How's about personal responsibility, instead of another ban? I'm old. I grew up in that era where you learned politeness via Emily Post. I don't smoke in areas where large numbers of people are NOT smoking. Why? It's impolite, that's why. It's easy for a non-self absorbed individual to observe such an obvious bit of general conduct. Like most people my age, gracious behavior became ingrained at an early age and there are large numbers of things I don't NEED laws telling me not to do. I naturally try to avoid impolite behavior.
Polite societies don't need to regulate every aspect of human behavior. Take away the foundation of that polite society and then your government has the excuse to regulate everything you do and say. Feminazis started destroying our polite society by insisting women are the better man, and they damned near won....they may yet. This was the beginning of the era when the cheap subdtitute for politeness, political correctness, was imposed upon us to replace our polite society.
For me, I've never made a secret of preferring men who open doors for me and yes, I DO embarrass those "better men" who destroyed their own chances of personal health (AIDS anyone?) happiness in their efforts to expand their own chances of personal happiness.
Years ago, in our former, polite society, there were simply places that smokers would never have dreamed of smoking. It would have been Just Not Done, because it's impolite.
I'll say one thing for you - as per your tagline, you're no dilettante!
But then a fool who wages war against minor vices, when there are far greater evils to fight, is unlkely to heed such sage advice.
That's easy enough to solve! Don't go into the smoking sections!
I hate that, when someone sees a shorter line in a place that has a smoking section(rare these days) and goes in that line to be seated sooner, then complains about the smoke!
Go to the no smoking section, it's not rocket science!!