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You know, I BELIEVE the good science about secondhand smoke not being a health hazard. But among my birth family of brother, sisters, parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins of all degree and remove, I am the ONLY ONE who never smoked, because I find the odor so uncomfortable - and so disgusting - that it chokes me.

My parents used to smoke in the car when I was small, and it literally made me so sick that I would regularly have to tell them to stop and let me throw up - and early memory that is still vivid for me at age 64. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate the nonsmoking reserved area in restaurants today, and I fully believe that it is appropriate to legislate such freedom for the large majority of us that do not smoke.

But I oppose a complete ban, because I have seen how uncomfortable my family members are when they are denied their tobacco, and I have no desire to impose that discomfort on anyone needlessly.