Xera

I use the word you a lot in this post. I don't mean a specific person; I am using it more as, "everyone that is not me."

Again I want to know why the police are allowed to search people for possession of cigarettes. Why in the hell is that ok? Why are there restrictions saying that I can not smoke in my CAR in the parking lot of a business.

I want to reiterate here, I do not believe that my smoking gives me the right to force non smokers to breathe my cancer causing second hand smoke. I just don't believe that when there are already laws in place to protect you from that second hand smoke in public places, what I do IN MY OWN CAR is any of your damn business. I can promise you this, if it's happening in redneck acres (as I affectionately refer to my home town); it’s coming to yours soon.

I have one truly horrible allergy. It makes me very sick to be around people wearing cologne or perfume. Even slightly scented deodorants can get me on a bad day. These scents are triggers for my migraines. They are very horrible. If you have never had migraines before you cannot possibly understand. I have done some looking into this. There is NOTHING that can be done for a perfume allergy of this sort. There is some limited help for skin allergies but not for inhaled allergies. And I am not alone here . There is no need for people to wear perfume. NONE. No one is even so much as addicted to it. They just chose to go around smelling like lemons and making me and others like me sick. 72% of asthmatics list perfumes as a trigger .

So what are you going to do when we decide that we're sick of you making us sick with your smelly, stinking perfumes? There is a serious health problem associated with you getting all smelly. I don't know that you like to wear perfumes, but many many people do. How will you feel when its you we decide has to shower and remove your stinking smells before you come into public places because it makes so many people sick?

You're right, smoking is not a right. There is no constitutional guarantee of the right to smoke. Nor is there a guarantee of the right to drive a car, get a library membership, or wear make-up. We just get to do these things because we live in a "free" society, where, for the most part, we get to make our own minds about whether or not to participate in legal activities.

You think that no one’s rights are being denied here. You think that there is a little more needless hysteria because of what is being said by those of us that are not as supportive of anti smoking laws as you are. You think you are safe from these laws because you don't smoke. When you give away another persons right to choose what he or she will do, you open the door for your rights to choose what legal activities you will participate in to be whittled away.

There is no government conspiracy to take away or limit our rights. I believe that. I also believe that the only people that can take our rights from us are US. And we will; one good idea at a time.