[mysterio]

It’s crap like this that makes me (a non-smoker) want to take up smoking just to shove it in their face.

I believe that anti-smoking zealotry is a psychiatric disease, and those suffering from it should be forced into psychitric care. However, as a smoker, I would have to discourage you from joining our ranks. It's amazingly difficult to kick the habit. I managed to kick for two months, and one difficult life event has me right back off the wagon.

[Lexinom]

I’ve been there before in the past - 10 years, incl. cigarettes, cigars, and pipe. I quit for health reasons. The nanny state and taxes had nothing to do with it - don’t need the government regulating an activity that affects only me. BTW I reject the bogus second-hand smoke argument for the same reason I reject global warming: effect is so negligible as to be effectively a non-factor.