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As far as smoking itself goes I am rather libertarian. If you enjoy it, do it in your own home, or some other consenting person's home. If there is a designated smoking area where it absolutely does not affect others then that is fine as well. I used to hate going home after a night at a bar or club REEKING of smoke, and am grateful for the bans on smoking in public places. I can't stand having to walk through a pall of smoke when I have to enter a building with smokers outside. I wonder what would happen if non-smokers simply hocked lugies on the smokers as they passed through their cloud. Seems fair, gross for gross. Also, why is it that people enjoy smoking in their cars, but do not like the smoking refuse. I find it gross to pull up to a stoplight and find thousands of cigarette butts on the street against the curb. I do not know of a single smoker who ashes and puts out their cigarettes in their own car (though there must be a few). Don't get me started about smokers affecting my health insurance...
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"Religion is the one area of our discourse in which it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about"
--Sam Harris
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