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Does that mean that your cigarette smoke has no adverse health effects on others that are forced by their proximity to you to breathe it?

Why is it, that most of us in here on the Smoking Threads are over 45-50 and older. We were born into smoking households. Entire families smoked. We grew up, started smoking, hung out in bars and discos and restaurants, even before they had the huge smoke eaters. We smoked and breathed in all the other's smoke. How come we are still alive, and healthy?

It wasn't until the anti-smokers started spewing all this second hand junk that the non-smokers started getting scared of US! Now, how the hell did our generations, and generations before us are still getting out of bed each morning and stretching our arms high and saying "Ah, it's going to be a beautiful day?"

We had no asthma. Our kids had no asthma. There was never any problem until the Clinton years and then the war on the smokers began. Do you have any idea of what I am asking? Anything? I am not being smart here. I really would like to know what your thinking.

Even with the Department of Defense's report about second hand smoke not being a killer, yet, non smokers still do not want to be around us. It's politically correct to not want to be around smokers, but it's politically incorrect to lie about the truth.

Ma'am, I'm glad that you and your children are healthy and have not suffered the horrible health effects that many others have from smoking. But the health hazards from smoking and from SHS were around long before the clinton years. While it is true that smoking among teens increased significantly during the clinton years it is not accurate to suggest that awareness of the problems associated with smoking all of the sudden bloomed during this awful era.

I wish you well and hope that you never have to see a loved one physically destroyed by cancer, enphysema, or any other disease commonly linked with cigarettes.

It's politically correct to not want to be around smokers, but it's politically incorrect to lie about the truth.

I disagree, here, my friend. When it comes to smoking (tobacco)it is politically correct to lie about the truth, in fact it is a prerequisite for getting a job with the anti-smokers.

I'm still roaring laughing about the Stan Glantz spiel in my local paper this morning - the dude has got no clue. I probably couldn't prove it but I do know that the tobacco companies DID NOT oppose the smoking ban legislation. I would love to know where Glantz got his information that he was willing to state unequivocally that they did oppose it.

As far as I know Glantz has not been in Delaware in the past 19 months - except for one night in July, I've been here every day for those 19 months.

Gee - who knows more about what is going on here????????