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While you have a point about the hazards of smoking, we all have to die of something, don't we?

Sure, but later is better than sooner.

As a conservative, a Republican, and a North Carolinian, I am uncomfortable in the anti-smoking camp. And I do not relish the prospects of local, state, or Federal laws making unreasonable demands on private enterprise. Nor do I think I'm going to instantly contract lung cancer by entering a smoky bar.

OTOH, I can't understand how anyone can think it's a great idea to roll up dried leaves, set them on fire, and suck the smoke into their lungs. To the extent possible, I avoid such people, both as acquaintances and as employees.

"OTOH, I can't understand how anyone can think it's a great idea to roll up dried leaves, set them on fire, and suck the smoke into their lungs. To the extent possible, I avoid such people, both as acquaintances and as employees."

It's riskier driving on the interstates every day. I don't smoke cigarettes. But I refuse to impose on those that do. I smoke the occassional cigar. When that right to smoke in a business that last time I checked was private, is denied, then we might as well nationalize every company, impose socialism full blown, and close the NYSE. Because I will close my business, take my chips and go home. I don't have to employ people, I enjoy doing so because I make more money. But when the state starts to dictate to me every aspect of my business including human behavior then it's Atlas Shrugged time. I really don't give a rats patootie then what happens to the country. It can continue to rot from within when that day occurs.