[carpio]

I think it's anti-freedom to insist that I breathe smokers smoke AT ALL.

Careful, that is too logical for insertion into a Smoking/Anti-Smoking thread. I am rabidly against the smoking ordinances that prohibit smoking in private businesses. I don't like smoke but I am not forced to go to private businesses where smoking takes place. That is fair enough for me.

But I too am amazed that people feel that their desire to smoke entitles them to foul the air and litter the ground with Butts in publicly owned places like Parks and beaches. My taxes help pay for these places I have a right to breathe there. And a right not to have my clothes ruined. And a right to walk on sand or soil rather than cigarrette Butt litter.

I have a standing deal with smokers in public parks. If they don't blow smoke on me or litter the ground with Butts I won't exercise my right to urinate in their picnic basket.

[Quix]

Sounds reasonable to me!

LOL.
Thanks.

[Just another Joe]

I have a standing deal with smokers in public parks. If they don't blow smoke on me or litter the ground with Butts I won't exercise my right to urinate in their picnic basket.

You are not an antismoker.
You are a nonsmoker and I, personally, wish there were more of you and less of them.

[Great Dane]

I won't exercise my right to urinate in their picnic basket.

Is that really all the debate you people can come up with, it has been said a thousand times, and is getting a little stale.

[CSM]

"But I too am amazed that people feel that their desire to smoke entitles them to foul the air and litter the ground with Butts in publicly owned places like Parks and beaches. My taxes help pay for these places I have a right to breathe there. And a right not to have my clothes ruined. And a right to walk on sand or soil rather than cigarrette Butt litter."

I can't believe that people think that they can have a bbq at the park, I don't want to have to breath in the carcinogens produced by that foul smoke that they are forcing me to breath! We should ban bbq's at all public parks. I can't believe that people would feel they could bring any food or babies onto a beach. Both activities produce litter and rather than enforce a litter law, we should ban the activity that produces the litter.

I can see that you are another societal weakling, expecting the government to legislate to your convenience and preference!