Smokers are being singled out because their habit often impacts other people. Smoking doesn’t bother me but I have seen some of my non-smoking friends have problems around certain brands of cigarettes.
This may sound funny but I personally love the smell of Dunhill cigarettes and I can understand why someone might smoke them. But Merits? Gack.
My point is that no one ever got fat from second-hand donut eating. You can get ill from second-hand smoke. Thus there’s a bit more social gravitas for restricting smoking.
And with the US moving to nationalized health care (after Obamacare collapses) I expect tobacco smokers to really get screwed over.
My advice? If you have to smoke then smoke pot. For some reason the liberals are a-okay with it.
For now.
I'm old enough to have smoked on airplanes. But I can't smoke a cigarette on the beach in Oregon if I want to. Nor will I be able to smoke weed in public after it's "legalized" on July 1.