[Gabz]

People who smoke are uniformly dumb and often inconsiderate

That is a rather baseless claim on your part - and totally out of line.

[strider44]

True. You can't call them uniformly dumb. My father has smoked for 40 years, and he's still one of the smartest people I know. He's just addicted. It's very dissapointing to me, but that's life. People do lots of things they know are bad for them, it doesn't make them dumb, it just shows a lack of will. Eating too much fast food is the same thing. My problem with smoking is that the people who smoke where I work go outside to do it in a designated smoking area. Fine. But they're out there 6 or 7 times a day, 5 to 10 minutes a time, while I'm inside working. I don't get to walk outside and just bullshit for 10 minutes with friends. Just because they smoke, they get these built-in breaks. Very annoying.