Reply #17: I've seen at least 3 or 4 posts whining about smoking bans in the last 2 days [View All]

Why are these posts being made all of a sudden? It seems like they're about 10 or 15 years too late - eventually smoking will be banned in all public places and the vast majority of people are fine with that.

Eventually, smoking will be as much a quaint oddity of the past as a snuff box, and that can only be a good thing.

Yes, I'm a former smoker, and yes, I know what it's like to have a nicotine fit, and yet I never once whined about not being able to smoke somewhere, because I never assumed it was my right to blow smoke all over everyone.

Maybe it's because I'm only 38 - I can only guess that the people who think they're entitled to bug everyone with their smoke are all over 50 and nostalgic for the days when they could do it anywhere they pleased.

Smoking bans have been common since I reached adulthood, so it just seems like a moot issue to me.

That's why I have trouble understanding these futile cries of resistance about the smoking bans.

You people do realize that a society where public smoking is acceptable is pretty much over, right?