I for one don't understand why it is that people get so upset about smoking in public. Look, smoking is a personal choice and one that when chosen has to be taken with some personal responsibilty along with it. I smoke but I don't smoke when someone might be upset of bothered by it. I smoke outside at my own home as I choose to do this rather than damage my home inside. When I am around someone that is not smoking and I want to smoke, I ask them if it will bother them BEFORE I take off and express my personal choice. 99% of the time I don't smoke in eating establishments because honestly its a pain and my wife does not smoke so I don't want her banished to the dark recesses of the cafe with me just so I can smoke. If we all took personal responsibility more often I think a wide span of problems could be solved. Like women with perfume that would choke a horse, or men with enough Aqua Velva on to slide a new battle ship into the harbor, or when one of our kids throws thier food half way across the room, or when our dog barks until the wee hours of the morning........personal responsibility! [/b]

Unfortunately DrDick not all smokers are considerate as you. For example, the man I saw in town the other day, during a parade, when the streets were packed with happy children, families with babies etc. There was no other smoker in sight, yet this jerk proceeds to light up in the middle of all these innocent kids, and poisons them with his second-hand smoke. Instead of him taking himself somewhere private to poison himself, he proceeds to be selfish, and make a poor mother and newborn baby move to a new smokefree spot. My point is, why do the non smokers have to move just to protect their breathing from jerks like this. Maybe he didn't want to be a 'doormat' huh Tom.

Thats my piece