[microgood]

I suppose you insist on the "right" to force me and others to inhale your vile smokey excrement just so you can indulge your habit of choice?

Not at all. I just believe in reasonable accomodation. If you are saying you should not have to breath one molecule of smoke anywhere you choose to go, you are being unreasonable and realistic. Your microbe comment sounded like you were saying that.

Besides, you did not answer my question. If someone is smoking in a park, do you demand they put it out or do you walk around them? Your answer will say alot about how narcissistic you are.

BTW, I do not smoke. Or wear perfume. Or drive a diesel vehicle. Diesel smoke irritates me more than anything, but since they are building a new structure next to our building, I will have to inhale it everyday for the next two years, at least.

[Skooz]

You obviously did not read, or choose to ignore, what I posted earlier.

I specifically said that I don't care who smokes or how much. If they smoke a carton a day, every day, I don't care. They can smoke until they turn gray, for all I care.

But, their "right" to smoke ends the instant their smoke touches me. Period. Any "reasonable accommodation" must be reached by people acting like adults who understand that in the end, it really isn't that big a deal. Just an annoyance. "Reasonable accommodation" must begin with smokers understanding (and most of them do) that not everyone else wants to inhale their smoke.

The park scenario is beside the point. If people are smoking, and I am walking toward them, I assume all responsibility for any smoke I inhale. But, if I am sitting on a bench, and someone sits down next to me while they are smoking, they are out of line and rude.

It's called simple human courtesy, and the smokers would not be suffering these defeats if more of them exercised it consistently.

[elkfersupper]

Diesel smoke irritates me more than anything

This sums up the whole argument.

Only one thing in this world smells better to me than diesel smoke, and that is Hoppe's No.9.

Different strokes for different folks.