I'm a smoker too, Cherie, so I understand, only too well.. It 's like prohibition all over again. Booze kills too and it's still going strong.

I was raised in a smoke filled house and so were most of my friends and we're all still here to tell about it. There are carcinigins in the air we breath, due to many emmissions from factories, cats, etc... Do we close all the factories, do we junk all the cars.

This whole smoking ban thing has been carried too far, I think. We as free americans, do things every day, that may kill us or, at least, shorten our lives. Smoking being only one of them.

I respect those people who simply cannot be around smoke, because it makes them ill andI do not smoke in their presence, whether at home or out.... I do not smoke when my Grands are here, out of respect for my DD's wishes.

These Ban Wars are usually not started by the truly effected people, but, rather by rable rousers...people who always need a cause-de-jour, to rant about..