Cigarettes don't kill people, people kill people

statistics is the leading cause of death

smoke near me and see what happens......

Do what I did - quit smoking.

Cheaper, healthier, better overall.

Cycloptichorn

I hear that many of Tony Blair's ministers are addicted to fags (of one meaning or another).

I just knew I would get to agree with Craven again, and hey, if it works for cigarettes, who knows? It might work with guns

I thought it was little white lab mice.

I have no sympathy for smokers, sorry.

No biggie, none was requested or needed.

I am a non-smoker and I agree that it has gone a little far.

Last month I went back to a little sleazy pool hall/bar that I used to frequent when I was in college. I was very surprised by the lack of the greasy haze that I remembered so fondly. The place just wasn't as wonderfully dank and dreary without the smoke.

It seems there should be some places for smokers.

Could make the same case for WMD, in fact.

After all - nukes dont kill people - people kill people!

;-)

I think there will be someplace for smokers. Why not sell licenses?

You can buy memberships to smokers clubs here. Interesting approach.

You can smoke in your house. Invite other smokers over and have a meeting.

Damn, an odd place for people finding themselves on the same side of an argument.

I smoke.

I realize it is bad for me, and am completely deferential to non-smokers. (I don't smoke around anyone else.)

I feel they should be made illegal or taxed into oblivion. I'm addicted.

I don't know what would happen to North Carolina. Maybe they'd start growing vegetables...?

Sofia, I thought the way you did before I quit. I still agree. Maybe you're ready to quit?

There is a place for smokers.

Standing outside in 95 degree heat with the sun boiling down on them....or standing outside while a fierce thunderstorm bares driving rain and hail down on them while they try desparately to keep their cancer sticks on fire....or huddled together standing over a city grate trying to keep warm as they puff away on a 5 degree day in the dead of winter.

attitudes are interesting, I often breakfast at a local diner with smoking and no-smoking sections, last week I went in and sat in the smoking section (I don't usually) and 2 ladies came in (the place nearly empty) and purposely sat in the smoking section even though the waiter offered them a booth in the no-smoking section, they then complained that I was smoking and asked me to leave.

I think it's gone too far, as well. Although many of my friends who quit smoking will no longer go to bars because of the smoke. I still don't think that's a reason to totally ban smoking in all public places. I don't know what the answer is, though.
I don't think I'd even want to sit in a bar if I can't light up a cigarette when I want to.
We've already given non-smokers smoke-free elevators, restaurants, etc. Why should smokers be the only one's who have to make allowances?
At the least, smoking and non-smoking bars and restaurants would be fair. If you don't want to be in a smoking bar, don't be.