Columbus has been non smoking in pretty much all public places for quite a while now and I had forgotten until recently when traveling how horrible it is to sit in a restaurant and try to eat your dinner with a cloud of smoke billowing around you. It made me so nauseaus. I know that people want to have the right to smoke. If there was some way they could do it with out any other living thing having to suck it up I would say go for it but I don't think there is and second had smoke is even worse than smoking. I wonder if they would be happy if I brought radio active matterial into a restaurant and said hey I have a right to radiation if I want it.
Most Alaska cities were at the forefront of this many years back. I remember how much helll it was when all the smokers retaliated loudly! After several years when I returned to Illinois- I did so just as they were taking their turn at implementing it. Low and behold I had to put up w/ all the whacko smoker retaliation yet again! Couldn't go anywhere without people getting goofy-azzed about their freedoms and rights being infringed upon- all while l'il old laldies and infants everywhere wheezed and coughed as smoke swirled around their heads in a foggy haze!
That's why I hate apartment living. You have to put up with all the crap from neighbors.I lived in an apartment for two years one time and it drove me nuts.The neighbor that lived under me was totally batty. I have four brothers and they would visit a lot ...well this dingbat went around telling everyone who was listen how I had all these men who were " sugar Daddy's " coming in and out of my apartment.She even went so far as to call the cops saying I was prostituting out of my apartment ! What she didn't know was...my brotrhers were in law enforcement and I knew the Cheif of police really well,,,long story short...I and some other residents filed harrassment charges and she was kicked out.
When I was little 3 out of 4 grandparents smoked. I used to have to ride in the car with my papaw chimney stack and he smoked so much that I litterally would have to ask him to stop the car so I could vomit if we drove more than 10 minutes together. I wish that someone had thought of my rights.