>>>>, or that smokers stop smoking and alcohol drinkers stop drinking.
>>You can't smoke in most public areas in the US.
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>The training must be severe. Back in march of 2010 we took a room in a hotel where we couldn't smoke. Just couldn't find anything else at the time. In the morning, we went out, at the corner of the building, where a group of tourists was gathering. We stood a few meters apart from them, but they collectively chose to move some 20m away from us... straight into their bus's exhaust. It was just idling, and mind you, american diesel is not as clean as european. They didn't mind breathing that, just as long as they are far enough from the deadly cigarette smoke particles.

I gave up smoking in my late-thirties. I dont mind smokers and still miss it sometimes. The only thing I dont like about some smokers is when they throw their butts everywhere - that's just piggish but that applies to any garbage people throw around. Personally I dont mind what people do with their lives, they must do whatever they want, just so long as I dont have to pay for their choices I am fine with it. Eat yourself fat, smoke, drink, take drugs, go base-jumping, whatever. But remember the externalities - dont make it my problem if you could have avoided the problem but chose not to. Which I think is fair.