Reply #104: maybe smokers stayed home, drank less, and ate less fatty pub food

[zazen]

But I haven't read the study, so I'm not taking sides.

And as a child with asthma who grew up with parents who smoked with rolled up car windows while I gasped for air in the backseat, I HATE SECOND HAND SMOKE.

In NC, it's still allowable in almost all restaurants, and I just want to throttle the bastards who light up while I'm eating. It's so damned selfish. What if I doused myself in gasoline and exuded toxic, noxious, choking fumes throughout an enclosed space because I just loved the smell of gasoline (or just an entire bottle of Estee Lauder). Bet I'd be kicked out of a restaurant. But smokers light up with no regard for children or asthmatics whatsoever.

End rant.