Reply #22: There's a difference [View All]

If you're allergic to alcohol it won't harm you for me to sit next to you and throw back a shot. The wait staff don't get liver cancer by proxy. If someplace allows smoking, I don't get the choice to go there or not. If I go, I might have an athsma attack. My cancer risk will go up a bit. I'll feel a bit ill from the smell.

Allowing smoking in public places takes chioces away form the majority and it makes it hard for people who are vulnerable to smoke (such as athsmatics) to go out in public.

Any right to smoke is superceded by the right to breath and the right of those with breathing problems (in a state with skyrocketing sthsma rates) to use public places.