Why don't you have the same attitude toward the rest of us that I have for you? Live and let live. Why do you anti's want, so much, to run others lives? Truely, I'm curious about this.
Do you really have that attitude about others? What about mom's smoking pot at home with the kids around? Live & let live? What about people that leave their kids in the car while they run into a store? What about people that slap, but not too hard, their child in the face? I've intervened in all of the above.
For stuff like that I can't 'live & let live'. I feel morally obligated to defend the defenseless. I think it's immoral to watch an irresponsible person carry out destructive actions on innocents, helpless or weaker marks and do nothing about it. Smoking around children is such an act.
I really don't have a complaint against people that smoke in their cars & homes etc. as long as they are not exposing their children. My complaint is with situations like when I'm with a smoker on a cruise and 2 of us couples are at a table, sitting under a no smoking sign & the smoker decides he's gonna smoke, screw the sign, screw me. Gee, what do I do? Grab a chair and beat the nicotine out of him? His addiction is not my problem I don't have to be tolerant. We will travel together no more.
I can remember over the years dozens of other rude situations and inconviences that smokers have generated with me. I don't go into bars & smoking sections expecting there to be no smoking. It's the gauntlet of smoke & smokers I have to run to get in or out of a business I resent. It's the smoker in the passenger seat that trys to light up before asking me if they may smoke in my car I resent. It's the smoker that moves into an area I'm already in and then lights up and refuses a polite request to 'Please don't smoke.' with a "I gotta have a cigarette." comeback that I resent. It's the smoker that (before it was banned by force of law) would light up in our break area and claim it as soley their own I resent. It's the smoker that just insists they can move in on me and mine and service their nicotine craving I resent.
Smoker insensitivity has persuaded me. The force of law is needed here to help nonsmokers reclaim their right to not have to breath cigarrette smoke! Nicotine addicts, on the whole, are not near as polite and considerate as they like to imagine themselves. I think smoking areas should be designated by law and smoking should be banned in most public areas. You see it coming at ya. Blame the rude smokers that a nonsmoking majority has had to 'tolerate' for too long for the anti-smoking backlash.