johnday said:
... and inconsiderate smokers?
Although I am not asking nor implying any particular position, just asking if you have a ban, the issue of inconsiderate smokers was the major issue in all of the discussions and print here. Since I work around the auto industry, I'd say that 60% of the people I work with smoke. The overwhelming majority of them are considerate smokers and are so pissed at inconsiderate smokers that many of them voted for the ban.
Although I don't smoke, I am beginning to understand how difficult it must be to quit. I have an extremely sweet step mother. She would go out of her way to do anything for anyone. She seems to be on everyone's "sucker" list when it comes to donating because everyone hits her up. And I'd consider her an extremely considerate smoker. However, her father died in his early 50's from lung cancer, her mother died of lung cancer, and her brother died of lung cancer. All of them were smokers. My dad wants her to quit smoking so bad that it's driving him nuts because she is starting to get that smoker's hack and she seems to be genetically predispositioned to getting lung cancer if she smokes. Anyway, she seems to want to quit, and has tried to quit for twenty years, but she can't stop.
My only issue, since I'm on the road a lot, is how many people around where I travel will not use their ash tray in their car. I don't know how many hundreds of times I've had a lit cigarette bounce off my windshield. Maybe I'm odd, but I see it as more of a problem with all our roadside brush fires and seeing thousands of butts at every intersection than a public ban.