Post #26813 by tikivixen on Sat, Mar 15, 2003 6:45 PM

Laney, I couldn't agree with you more.

As a sufferer from a lifelong allergy to cigarette smoke, I could not, until the ban was passed, EVER go to a restaurant without a nonsmoking section. I would get queasy and wheezy; my eyes would itch, I would begin to sneeze, and my meal would be ruined.

And bars? don't make me laugh. No tiki crawls for me, back in the "good old days"!!!

Worst of all, I had to watch my mother's two dearest friends die of smoking-related illness (and they were the only two friends she had)--Janie died from lung disease acquired through years of breathing her hubby's "secondhand smoke", and Turk died of lung cancer from a lifetime of playing music in smoky clubs. I never in all my life saw him light up; again, secondhand smoke did the job just fine all by itself.

Nobody has a right to injure me or make me sick in a public venue just 'cause they want to.

To do so isn't exercising your freedom; it's being an inconsiderate jerk. Lung cancer and emphysema are not minor inconveniences. They KILL. Period.

(crawling down off soapbox now)

--Lisa