"Frank Erskine" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:03:18 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
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dennis@home wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote in
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Please don't assume what I think. I don't wish to share my cigarette
smoke with anyone apart from other smokers.

I am happy to find a smoker that agrees it is wrong to smoke anywhere
the public has access to or where there are any children like
streets, shops, houses, etc.

"anywhere the public has access to". Would that be the smoking public or
the non smoking public? 25% of the UK population enjoy a perfectly legal
activity.

Think about it. If we had reasonable legislation instead of punitive
legislation, we could have specific smoking & non smoking venues.
Therefore
25% of the public could smoke in areas that 25% of the population has
access
to.

Ok - so public footpaths should be divided 3:1 for non-smokers/smokers
then? And supermarket carparks? Even roads, because smoker-type
drivers flick their ash straight out of the window, and then similarly
jettison their glowing cigarette-end.

Its a waste of time you can't reason with a drug addict.
They know its bad for them, they know its bad for everyone else, they even
know that they don't get the high they got when they first started but they
will rationalise it in their minds and carry on. Throw in their inability to
go through the low caused by not smoking and what hope do they have. They
have lost but just can't accept they are weak and pretend they are doing it
out of personal choice. That is why many ex-smokers are so unsympathetic,
they see the losers for what they were and despise them.