[Not Insane]

--Whether smoking should be outlawed is another issue, but folks it ain't good to breathe in smoke as a general principle.--

Technically correct. But quantity DOES matter. You don't get sick every time you're exposed to someone with something communicable because the total exposure must cross some threshold. Below that, it is harmless.

This is true with second-hand smoke. Below a certain threashold, you may smell it, but it is doing no harm whatsoever. Your body filters it away from harm as easily as it does all the other garbage in the air. The smoke is just more VISIBLE.

BTW, I HATE smoking and don't respect people who smoke, regardless of their lifes accomplishments. However, I hate all the bs statistics being bandied about regarding SH smoke. Here in Seattle there are a lot of billboards advertising that 58,000 people a year die of second-hand smoke. What tripe.

It makes me uncomfortable but it's none of the governments stinking business. I sincerely wish they would butt out!

[cinFLA]

It makes me uncomfortable but it's none of the governments stinking business. I sincerely wish they would butt out!

I hate to tell you, but WE are the government.

[Publius6961]

I HATE smoking and don't respect people who smoke, regardless of their lifes accomplishments.

Your choice, but I still can't help admiring Albert Einstein and Edward Teller...