Who's Choice Affects Who

Well, I just heard an advertisement about a site dedicated to promote the rights of smokers ... the rights of smokers? In an effort to be open minded I went to the site (click here) and what I found there was about what I would expect. More of "our rights are being infringed upon", "people would like to have segregated smoking rooms", etc.

Progress is coming and it takes the form of advancing the rights of the non-smokers. As a non-smoker do I have the right to clean air when I go into a public area? I would say that my right to clean air supercedes the right of a smoker to light up. My breathing clean air will not affect the smoker's health. A smoker's cigarette smoke will both affect my health and leave me smelling like an ashtray.

Everyone knows people who smoke. If the smokers could accurately smell their clothes after going outside to smoke they would realize that not only does that smoke end up in the clothes of those around them while they smoke (more directly in closed spaces like restaurants) but would have to end up in the lungs of those people as well. If a smoker wants to smoke in their own home or in their own car or outside ... that is a right that I will stand up for, but put them inside, in a location where I am subjected to it and I will stand up against them.

Also, if you smoke, keep your butts in your car ... do you have any idea how many fires start that way?