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I smoke and I have for 16 years, off and on. I managed to quit once for two years. Nonsmokers almost universally ask me why I would go back after two years off. Not one day got easier. NEVER. It was like the first day without a smoke every single day for 2 years. In order to fail all that ever had to happen was one day when my craving was stronger than my disgust at the habit.
I try to respect other people. I really do. I don't smoke indoors, even when it's not banned. I don't smoke around nonsmokers without first asking if it's all right with them. When businesses put up signs that I can't smoke inside my vehicle on their parking lot I take that personally. Thats just discrimination. That is not protecting innocent people from my bad habits, that protecting innocent people from SEEING my bad habits. You will not get cancer because you saw me with a smoke in my own damn car.
There are three businesses in my very small town that have rules like this. I will now repeat the original question: why is smoking the target of so much finger pointing?
I would also like to know why there can't be a "smokers haven" bar or restaraunt that was specifically designed just for smokers? If the majority of restraunts and bars were smoke free, and there were only certain places that bought a license like piglet suggested, then wouldn't that give smokers and non smokers alike the benifit of being comfortable where they are at? I'm all about compromise, and this seems like a compromise to me. I dislike being told that I have to do all the giving, so I imagine nonsmokers do too.
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