[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I consider myself a sensible person, not because I don't smoke, have never smoked, can't stand to be around smoke and try not to ever smell cigarette smoke.

I consider myself sensible because I don't get mad if I go out (once every 4 years) to a bar and somebody is smoking. It is abar for heaven's sake.

You don't move in to a house next door to a smelter and then complain it smells funny in your neighborhood. And if I sitting on an outside patio eating lunch at work I don't expet every smoker to snuff out their cigarettes. All I do is if I was there before them I wish they would ask if it would bother me and if the wind is blowing towards me we can switch tables.

Somehow those easy solutions escape the smoking Nazis and some militant smokers are so tired of getting stepped on if you ask them to switch seats with you then get all bent out of shape.

It's just simple common sense/ common courtesy

[freeeee]

Your common sense is refreshing, if rare.

I agree with your approach, and I'm also a non-smoker.

[maxwell]

It is abar for heaven's sake.

Thank you. You, sir, are a reasonable man. I will switch tables with you ANY day.

[alaskanfan]

It's just simple common sense/ common courtesy

A concept that is totally foreign to the pc social engineers so common in todays society.

Next they will determine that eating red meat should be banned.....ad infinitum

[SheLion]

It's just simple common sense/ common courtesy

Your a NON smoker. Not an ANTI smoker. There is one huge difference!!! Thank you for your tolerance of your fellow man. We need more like you!

[Great Dane]

All I do is if I was there before them I wish they would ask if it would bother me and if the wind is blowing towards me we can switch tables.

There is alway sensible solutions, with your attitude, you would have nothing but cooperation.

[metesky]

Well, sir, you probably make eye contact, smile and make a polite request (with a hint of authority) and things work out fine unless you're dealing with a whacko.

Anti-smokers, on the other hand, start with the fake coughs, rolling their eyes and making personal comments sotto voice (sp?). They try to make the smoker blow up so they can point out their own moral superiority.

People like you get much more co-operation than they do.