[Gabz]

Smoking around people with asthma is outright wrong. I've never had that problem because I only know one person with asthma and she is also a smoker.

I've got nothing against businesses that choose to go smoke-free for whatever reasons. And your attitude about taking your business elsewhere is admirable.

One thing I have consitently said to those who wish to not be around smokers is to speak with the owners of their favorite places about changing the policy. I generally get laughed at and told they will talk to their elected officials and get it done everywhere.

Your politely couched slur on smokers "lung excrement" is taken in the derogatory manner in which it is meant.

[Skooz]

Your politely couched slur on smokers "lung excrement" is taken in the derogatory manner in which it is meant.

LOL! That goes back 20 or so years and my heavy smoking friend, Billy.

I had recently quit smoking and became annoyed that Billy would light up wherever and whenever he wanted: In the car with the windows rolled up, in the house (mine, others, no matter). Anywhere.

And his cigs seemed to be programmed to send their smoke directly to my face. It was uncanny. I could be on the other side of a 30 foot-wide room, and the cig smoke would be in a line directly from his cigarette, across the room, to my lungs. It looked like a meandering, white piece of fluffy rope.

I used to curse and swear at him, but it didn't do any good. He just kept firing the things up. I developed the term "lung excrement" to let him know how I felt about me inhaling his smoke all the time.

[SheLion]

Smoking around people with asthma is outright wrong. I've never had that problem because I only know one person with asthma and she is also a smoker.

SMOKING AND ASTHMA

"We've all heard that smoking and second-hand smoke cause asthma, but a growing body of evidence is challenging the veracity of this old saw. The most recent study to exonerate smoking and tobacco smoke as a cause of asthma was published in the British Medical Journal July 8, 2000."