[newgeezer]

I get your point about someone else's eating not affecting you like smoking near you kicks in your asthma, I just don't agree with your conclusion that because of that, the government should regulate - if not ban - smoking.

Then you have never had asthma.

My wife is terribly allergic to most cats; if she gets near one or goes into a house where one even used to live, she experiences respiratory distress, sometimes severe, much like asthma.

So, should the government regulate or ban cats?

[biblewonk]

Close the cat show loophole!!!!

[biblewonk]

Most Americans were pleased with the legislative attack on cigarette smokers, not to mention confiscatory tobacco taxes.

I don't think Americans would even recognize a similarity to a situation 225 years ago if the government attacked tea drinking by taxing it to death. Boy how we've changed.

[Ditter]

Hummmmmmmm I'm trying to remember the last time I was seated next to a table full of cats at a restaurant....................... Nope it never happened.