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Growing up with a mother who smoked, I couldn't honestly care if they outlawed it anywhere, everywhere, and shut the tobacco farms down.
Smokers for the most part are some of the most selfish people in the world, and my mother topped that list.
it got to a point, where I had to nail a sign on the front door that said.."No smoking." But she wouldn't want to respect that, it was too difficult for her to just step outside on the porch and smoke.
Back when I was a kid, there was still smoking in hospital rooms. I awoke after surgery to find my mom sitting at the edge of my bed smoking a cigarette.
When my parents divorced and it was just me, my father and brother, everytime we went out to dinner there would be a non-smoking section, mainly it was the worst section of the restraunt. It would always be the closest to the kitchen doors, and the only thing that seperated us from the smoke would be a magical 3 foot tall piece of glass.
For many of my 40 years on this planet, smokers had the upper hand and were catered to at the expense of everyone elses health and happiness.
Smokers are also fairly disgusting people, with even more disgusting habits. Think about how many times you drive up to an intersection and see where smokers have emptied their ash trays out onto the street. Nothing better than to eat with a smoker who decides to put his cigarette out into his food, or drink, and I'm still eating.
Hell when I was a kid, smoking was allowed everywhere. People would smoke in the grocery stores and put their cigarettes out on the floor for fuck sake.
Now with that in mind. I do believe people have the right to do whatever the fuck they want to their bodies. It is your body, if you want to fill it with food, meth, fuck a knothole in a tree, as long as it doesn't affect others fine.
Give smokers a section to smoke in bars, restraunts, etc. Don't relegate them back to the kitchen like they did us, make it equitable, but force companies who decide to keep smoking to put in nice ventilation systems.
In Arlington, Texas, when they put in a tough smoking ban, I remember some places put smoking areas in enclosed rooms and everything was fine. Sure it was costly, but if it keeps both non-smoking and smoking customers happy, and keeps business coming in, then its a value added cost.
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