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Cars and factories spew out far more toxic crap into the air than smokers do. I don't hear you ranting against them wanting them illegal. Oh wait...cars are more useful huh? Who gives a crap? They're both legal and as such its bull crap to ban them in the open air.
Government regulates them, as they should. I support STRONGER emissions controls... so, you can't get me there...
And it is NOT bull crap to regulate them in public spaces. Government has LONG assumed that right and responsibility, and this has a LONG tradition in common law that predates the very existance of the United States...
Oh boo hoo. Grow thicker skin. It was probably your crappy attitude towards smokers that got the smoke blown in your face. Not because they were inconsiderate.
Actually, once upon a time, I was rather tolerant toward smokers of cancer sticks. If you light up in the presense of non-smokers, you are being rude and discourteous... the same if you light up among children. Sorry, people have the right to use a public space without having smoke from cancer sticks blowing in my face. If I have been enjoying the beach with my family for two hours, we are settled on our towels and enjoying lunch, why should WE have to move because some blowhard with an addiction to a weed wants to light up his cancer stick next top me and my children. HE should move not us. However, this attitude amongst smokers is not uncommong, hence the growing movement to restrict their use.