Hmmmm...

we don´t have such laws in Germany. to be honest i don´t think it will do any harm to you as long as it is outside. i consider all the smog from the cars that drive around in front of buildings as far more dangerous. (if at all)

Ridiculous.
I quit smoking but I think anti-smoke persecution is getting absurd.
Yet, they won't ban cars (1000 times more polluting and harmful) from 25 feet of the building, will they?

I heard of a town in the US that outlawed smoking in the town completely. Even in your own home. Don't know the name of the town, I don't even know if it's true. Probably not, but it will get there.

What IS true is a story where a woman got sued for smoking in her own apartment, when a asthmatic child that lived in the apartment under hers died. Very sad for the kid, but heck, the woman was in her own apartment. OK, sue the building owner for bad ventilation, but for crying out loud, give me a break. Or actually, give smokers a break.

Couldn't agree more, paxx. I'm a smoker, and I completely understand that it irritates people. I respect all non-smoker's wishes with respect to not smoking in their cars, houses, near them at a restaurant (I'll eat in the non-smoking section), etc. Again, I understand that it's a habit *I* enjoy, but that it's no picnic for non-smokers. But, having said that, how long will it be before pregnant women are actually prosecuted for attempted murder, if they light up after conception? I actually find it hard to believe a case like that hasn't been brought before the courts here in the US yet. I'm a firm believer in: "Do what you want with you and yours, but leave me and mine alone". These days, that line is being crossed with frightening regularity.

Ms. Sally: I think I'd have to challenge that one. But, there might be cases where that law makes sense. For example, offices and places of employment often frown upon having a gathering of smokers outside their door. I smoke, but I can totally understand that. On the other hand, if it's a public building, and that 25 foot mark is on public property, I think I'd have to test the law.

well, I'm allergic to burning tobaccoo, among other burning plant matter...something causes a reaction where the blood vessels thin and break in my nose and cause nose bleeding and major headaches. I have a hard time being at amusement parks where the smoking is ok, and you'd figure the outside air would carry it away, huh?

i dunno though. it doesn't seem particularly fair to herd a group together to light up, but it does make it easier for me to breathe...

If I'am not mistaken you can't smoke at Texas stadium the baseball park where the Rangers play. Might be wrong.

I didn't think about smoking sections of a restaurant. If it is illegal to smoke within 25 feet of an entrance to a public building then how does that apply to inside a smoking section.

The anti smoking campaign should be directed towards an anti greed campaign instead.

As someone once said, "It's all nickels and dimes, Arthur"

SlowNeasy, I'am already rolling my own. It's cheaper and it gives me something to do while I'am watching TV. Can roll 5 packs an hour. Comes to about $13 a carton.

When I'm 'working' at the Grands Prix I smoke....partly as a stress-reliever, partly for something to 'do' when things 'can' get quiet and boring...but then may not smoke again till the next race meeting. [OK, so I'm a bit weird]....

Being a spectator at a race meeting is one thing, but to be 'on your toes', concentrating on cars, drivers and car numbers, as they wizz by at 260 clicks [and more] and be able to tell if the smoke is from a deflating tyre or an engine whose ups and downs are about to go 'sideways', or, did Schumi REALLY deliberately nerf Hill and win the championship [he didn't] and who DOES belong to that little lump of carbon fibre on race-line and has anyone hit it yet, and where is the lead car and have the 'blues' been shown to those being lapped and why is that twit sitting in the tree over the track and did 12 pass 3 under yellows and where ARE the bloody numbers on a Williams anyway and........

New law in Texas prohibits smoking in restaurants, between the hours of 1 and 4 p.m., on Sunday. The new Blue Law I guess......

Smaller buildings might not be an issue but if you ever pushed open a door on an office tower the wind funnels inside even on a calm day. one might aswell be inside. Having recently quite smoking myself I fully understand the addiction, and I always respect others health and would leave to a place I would not bother others...

I'm a smoker I'm smoking right now.I live in the Philadelphia area and their trying to ban smoking in bars. I think California banned smoking in ALL publc places.

Wom I roll my own too Oh you mean tobacco

I think cigarettes are evil, monstrous things. That said, I smoke cigars often and a pipe from time to time. I can lean back and destroy a Macanudo and a half a glass of rum, and feel fine doing it. Someone hands me a thin, teeny cigarette, I take one good, long drag, and the room starts spinning. There is probably 20 times the tobacco in one of my cigars, and I don't feel a thing.

Call me paranoid, but the problem is that cigarette companies are actually pharmacutical companies that use cigarettes as a carrier instead of pills. I think moderate use of tobacco has never harmed anyone, but when it is chemically and genetically engineered...

As for the topic at hand the only time I am pissy about smoking is when children are present.

They have a restaurant here in Illinois where you can't smoke on Sunday's but thats ok with me I don't go there

This may be an urban legend, but I thought I read a story about a woman in California who was smoking in her car while driving around some city, and got a ticket because her smoke was blowing back into a convertible behind her and the convertible folks called the cops. That's insane.

As for your building question, our office building (in Dallas, TX) made everybody go out back. Couldn't smoke anywhere else around or in the building. The building and the surrounding structures were laid out such that, when the winter winds started blowing, the structures would funnel the wind right through our smoking area. Felt like an arctic blast.

I'm not a smoker and never have been. That said, I'm not particularly bothered by cigarette smoke although I know it is a problem for some like Kinrik. For others it's just a religious crusade.

Smoking indoors has been banned where I work. Not too uncommon I don't think. So smokers have taken to gathering outside the doors to the buildings. It can get cold in Canada so they want to indulge, yet stay warm. Problem is, they block the doors so you can't get in or out without being rude - they simply will not make way. I don't give a damn about the smoking, it's their inconsideration that bugs me. Whether or not it's a reaction to the indoor ban or not.

Now the employer is looking at banning smoking on campus altogether. This should create even more animosity. Great!

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Well for starters I am a smoker but since my son was a baby he has been asmatic so all the smoking is done outdoors. My husband and I don't go to bars any more because it is way too expensive and we like just eachothers company anyways. Point I am getting around to is that I can understand people who do not smoke not liking the smoke around them. Expecially a smoked filled room. I think that one of the real reasons for not allowing people to smoke right infront of a building is because it starts to block the enterance if there are too many out there. As for resturants I sit in the non smoking when with the kids and the smoking section when without. The bar thing does not pertain to me but I feel sorry for the owners not having a choice. Their bar, their rules! Rights are being taking away from more people then just smokers.
By the way, so the the land of the free does not tax me to death this is where I get my smokes.
http://www.yesmoke.com/index.php

www.pipesandcigars.com Plenty of tobacco sites of the web. Smoke a pipe. Actually about 38 different pipes. Not 38 at one time. Been smoking for about 30 years, and I'd never give it up. They'll have to pry the pipe out of my hand when I die with a crowbar.

Perhaps the point is that it takes time for smoke to disperse. So if people are smoking in front of a building, it will definitely get carried inside as well.

Oi, how about a law requiring smokers to take a bath before entering a room with other people in it?

'asthmatic'...

Thanks for the spell check Jafo. I was typing a little fast. This only the second message board I have ever even posted on. I am not used to reading things over before sent.

hmm... how about a law prohibiting non-smokes from entering rooms/buildings where there already are smokers?!
Then they can't f*king whine about the smoke(ers).

Yeah im a smoker myself and am getting a bit pretty tired of the persequsion (Jafo??) of "us".

Just my 2 something

'persequsion'...that's imaginative to say the least....'persecution', madam....