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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.

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

I admit I have not read everything you posted.

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.

That depends. If you go into a casino in Vegas where smoking is allowed (which is all of them), people may smoke nearby you. Does that mean all smoking should be banned in Vegas casinos just in case you might show up there?

The reason I say Vegas is because it is kind of the last resort outpost of smokers in the nation. The only way that smoking will be banned in casinos there is if the Feds do it since they make all their money off gambling and most gamblers smoke. If the Feds end up doing it, that will be the end of Vegas in Nevada (it will move to Mexico).

Even though I do not smoke, my wife does and that is why we only vacation in Vegas and Mexico. The rest of the country is getting hostile to smoking and who wants to go somewhere like that while on vacation. But I am cool spending all my vacation money if Mexico if that is what it comes to, and I hope the 23% of adults who smoke will join us all down there. Because in Mexico, capitalism always triumphs when it comes to the tourist industry.