If you had a child with asthma, you would understand. I took one to the morgue once after an attack brought on by a babysitter smoking. We had to keep my daughter in the house when the neighbor would burn leaves. Enjoy your denial.
I am sorry to hear about your child, There are exceptions asthma being one of them. Why would you hire a baby sitter who smokes. I would never smoke around a child with asthma if that was what triggered an attack and I was aware, and I think most smokers would respect that. But a child or any one with asthma that bad is usually triggered by more than one thing.
At least you didn't tell your neighbor he couldn't burn leaves and try to pass a law but now there is a law in most areas where you can't burn leaves or anything else. Maybe you did. Now we have to pay someone to haul them off. My son was allergic to freshly mown grass but we sure didn't stop cutting the grass. We bagged it then watered down the lawn after it was cut, which seemed to help, and we didn't try to have a law passed that forbid our neighbors from cutting grass.
I'm not living in denial at all. I am aware that there are a lot of people out there who have allergies. I'm allergic to certain perfumes. I try to stay away from them. I don't want them ourlawed. What bothers me is the hysteria on the anti side. It's a campagn of behavioral modification.
I am convinced that most of the anti smoking hype is brought on by the companies like those who make products such as Nicoderm since they sure seem to be pushing " The Patch" "The Gum" "The Pill" etc. The stop smoking campaign has become big business with big bucks to be made and how to you make your business grow if your selling " Nicoderm" etc.? Convince everyone to quit smoking and sell them your product. If that doesn't work, convince non smokers that smoking is bad for them.