"Its not worth freaking out about. "

Sure, since it's no one you personally know and love. But I bet if it was your child/wife/family-member, you'd not discount it so easily. My belief has always been "If the smoke bothers you, move". If it's your house/place of business/abode/etc. you make the smoker move. Problem solved.

I do agree with you that the anti-smoking rhetoric is pretty ridiculous. Either ban smoking altogether (Heh, yeah right), or let people do things without being hassled.

I guess I just chafe at the increasingly PC world we are living in. If I sit down during a day, I can figure out 10 things that affect me negatively. There needn't be laws and multiple political action commitees to solve everything that offends the sensitive. Certainly the government doesn't need to be restricting my freedoms simply to appease the sensitive. Especially when my tax dollars are helping pay for it! I'd rather see a lot more effort put into educating the inner cities then anti-smoking commercials/studies etc. No #### if you inhale a hot substance into your lungs repeatedly, its a bad idea. Duh.

To continue this rant. WTF is the government doing with this huge tobacco windfall? Paying lawyers. So this big issue over smoking comes up, tobacco companies increase their prices, the government spends more money to argue it, the tobacco companies lay people off, but now second-hand smoke deaths are less-likely to happen? #### the other stats, I want to hear how many people have NOT died since these laws changed. Thats some data you can convince me with.

It's like the old marijuana is a gateway drug because 85% of people who did cocaine started with weed. Well by that logic, cigarettes are a gateway drug to heroin, because about 99.9% of heroin addicts smoked cigarettes first.

Bah, I am done. Government ineffeciency angers me.