The reason I love Rush, besides the fact that he so funny, is that he says you have to "win in the marketplace of ideas" (actual voting). I have no problem with the smokers putting on the ballot referendum and candidates that are for wide open smoking. I just want to be able to defeat them without being called a Nazi or getting into a Socratic argument over: "Is America a democracy or not?"
My experience is that smoking is bad for you. Smoking around kids influences them and probably addicts at least some of them. These smokers are immoral in my opinion if they smoke around kids. I find it disgusting. And I think I should be able to go around the country and not have to smell it. They just can't handle that.
My aunt and uncle both died of Sq Cell Ca of the Lung in their fifties. They were heavy smokers. Their only child, my cousin,just died of the same thing after smoking her entire life. She died at 56. She took care of both parents as they died and then she did. She never married. Their only child. Dead way before her time havinig lived and smoked with her parents all her life. It fries me that people are so casual about their lives and their children's lives. The thought of one of my children dying in her fifties because of a habit she learned at my knee makes me pale.
These smokers talk about their rights. But they never talk about the grief they bring to others. Just like dope addicts, alcoholics. They spread the grief all around.