[Madame Dufarge]

I don't know how old you are but I remember & I speak the truth. In the 40's & 50's I was little & I was meek & I would never have asked a smoker to put out their cigarette because it was bothering me.

I'm 55 years old.

What I specifically remember was that the non-smokers didn't dramatically fake-cough, frantically wave their arms around, get the vapors, or grab their throats and drop to the floor in the throes of their "allergies."

I grew up in a working-class mill town where reticence was considered a weakness.

Trust me, if anyone had had a problem with being in the company of smokers, it wouldn't have gone unstated.

I understand that the "working class mill town" reference is a nice, easy opening for the elitist wimps who get the vapors at the very thought of smoking to zero in on the "socio-economic" angle.

We're "uneducated" ("educated now being equated with "credentialed"), with calloused hands, as if that were a thing to be ashamed of.

People like you have weakened America, and you'll never understand why

[Max McGarrity]

People like you have weakened America, and you'll never understand why.

That bears repeating, Madame Dufarge.