Quote Originally Posted by kygorski View Post
Do you feel that you are being denied your rights? how about me, I'm a smoker, but thats OK to to ban one of my likes, for the common good. An attack on freedom, is an attack on all freedoms.
To a large degree, society dictates the way its members should and should not behave. In fact, cigarette smoking got its start due to the potential health risks faced by society from the earlier use of tobacco for chewing. Tobacco chewing was a common practice of men in the late nineteenth century. Publically spitting tobacco was then considered acceptable behavior. Spittoons were commonplace in homes, businesses and public gathering places. When it was realized that the spitting was responsible for the spread of the germs that caused tuberculosis, society's acceptance of spitting in public was reevaluated. Spitting was soon viewed as an anti-social behavior, and tobacco chewing was voluntarily stopped by previous users. At about the same time the first machines for mass production of cigarettes were introduced and many tobacco users welcomed this method of nicotine delivery which did not require spitting and seemed to be risk free. While tuberculosis and infectious diseases are no longer the major health threats they used to be, degenerative diseases such as heart disease and cancers are now of major concern. With the possibility of smoking contributing to an increase of these diseases in non-smokers society is becoming intolerant of cigarette smoking. It will probably reach the point where the disdain for smoking will be similar to society's feeling toward public spitting. If a visitor in your house constantly spits in your ashtray you would probably toss him out. Smokers are now encountering this same response from family, friends, employers and anyone else with whom they come in contact. They are not welcome as long as they have a lit cigarette, cigar or pipe in their possession.

If you do not wish to become socially ostracized due to the continuation of a dirty habit then don't smoke. You will be free to go anywhere, any time and without having to worry about whether you have cigarettes and will be allowed to smoke them. Life becomes much simpler once you break free from this addiction.