[Ditter]

The difference as I see it is that I can sit beside the 'all you can eat buffet' all day while other people gorge & I won't gain one single pound. I can't sit beside even one smoker while he puffs with out my asthma kicking in. I'm not worried about the cancer aspect, at least not for me, but asthma occurs within minutes.

[SW6906]

Then get up and move. It is a very large country and no one is requiring you to sit beside that person who is smoking - no matter where it is.

And no, I'm not a cigarette smoker.

[Gaston]

I can't sit beside even one smoker while he puffs with out my asthma kicking in.

Before all the laws were passed limiting where smoking was permitted you could just tell the smokers of your condition and they would generally snuff them out without protest. But now that the smokers are feeling defensive about their habit most often you get some rude comment about this being the smoking area and to get lost. I know because my daughter is allergic to smoke and I’ve dealt with this issue for 20 years now. I was a smoker until my daughter was born.

It is sad to think that in this country we have replaced manners with laws. If manners were still taught in the home and at school most people would see these laws as unnecessary.

[William Terrell]

You have a problem. It is your problem, and it is the fault of no one else that you have it, and probably not even your fault. You share this problem with a small percentage of people in the US. It is your responsibility to manage it; that responsibility belongs to one one else, at no time, under any circumstances. Though there may be a number who sympathize and cooperate, they do so according to their choice.

To advocate the brutal and nondiscriminating force of law to protect you in your frailty by limiting the liberty of millions of of those no similarly afflicted is the very root and reason of tyranny.

Deal with your problem like a responsible adult.

[HELLRAISER II]

I agree that you should have the right to sit where you want without the smoke effecting your asthma, however that is what they have designated non-smoking sections for people like you. Don't get me wrong, i'm not a big time smoker. But occasionally I like to smoke a nice Cigar & I don't think the Govt. or you should be able to take my right to smoke away from me or tax me into oblivion. There is room to make both of us happy.

[metesky]

Boo hoo hoo!

[Patriot1946]

Maybe you should contact the government. You see they have been spraying chemicals over our cities for a number of years. In fact after the spraying has occured hospitals have filled with people having so called asthema attacks, shortness of breath and becoming seriously ill. Just a thought.