Without exaggerating at all, breathing second hand smoke makes me physically ill. If people want to kill themselves with cigarettes, that's OK by me, as long as I don't have to breathe it.
I don't really go to clubs and bars, so I guess I don't have as much of a problem with people smoking there (although people smoking there is part of the reason I don't go). Restaurants are a different story - if I get seated anywhere near the smoking section, I have to move or risk getting nauseous.
The strange thing is...my Dad smoked the whole time I was growing up, and it didn't seem to bother me much back then. It was only after I moved out and was away from it for many years that it started making me sick to breathe secondhand smoke.
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