[Dixie Yooper]

I not from the south. I from about as far north as you can get in the 48 states. I used to smoke 2 packs of Marlboro's a day, but quit in 1980, When I was in school. At that time my roommate smoked a pipe. Even though I no longer smoked, our apartment stunk from his addiction. Since then, smoking has not been allowed in my apartments, cars, homes or at any place I work. Now I live near Raleigh, NC, where the merchants of death used to deal their crops. Hardly anyone grows the stuff here anymore. I bet smoking is getting expensive for you nowadays.

[-YYZ-]

Ah, an ex-smoker, the most insufferable type of anti-smoker.

Look, I can fully appreciate that you don't like the smell of cigarette smoke. Heck I'm a smoker (and sometimes non-smoker), and I don't like the smell of it either. I also don't care for the smell of B.O., coffee, and many perfumes and colognes. In fact, an too much of the latter, like in the perfume area of a department store, sets of my asthma (but cigarette smoke doesn't, strangely enough). But I wouldn't dream of making as ignorant of a comment in an elevator as the one in the story above, regardless of how much some smell bothered me.

[Old Professer]

Smoking is cheap compared to the loss of perspective.