Maybe so, but when you consider that in the 40s and 50s everybody smoked, and that many of us lived in the conditions of proximity I experienced the numbers of deaths for non smokers like myself and my wife does not seem to bear out the claims of the fatal consequences of second hand smoke. Though I admit to suffering frequent bouts with bronchitis as a kid which subsided after we moved out of the apartment to a six room colonial.
I've never considered bronchitis to be a life enhancing, pleasure enhancing; life extending affliction.
Has always been very disconcerting at best and frightfully life threatening as it has transitioned into pneumonia many times.
But hey--I realize that forcing it on children unnecessarily--whether to their genetic predisposition to such hazards or the intensity of the 2nd hand smoke . . .
I realize that's just a benign freedom issue that adults who know better and who CONTROL THEIR oxygen uptake so emphatically--it's just a benign freedom issue of those selfish adults. So I shouldn't be concerned. Nothing happening here. Move along.
/sar