How I see it on my fourth tobacco free day after a 37 year relationship with cigarettes:

Cigarettes are drug delivery devices.
A ciggie is a joint made of tobacco.
Tobacco contains NICOTINE, a pharmacological substance that has physical and psychological effects.
Therefore it is understandable why society should feel it right to regulate its use in innappropriate places especially in light of the substances know to be harmful to the health of others in large enough concentrations.
If I'm smoking it means I'm sharing a little bit of my joint with others who might not want to have a contact high for various reasons all of which are perfectly respectable.

That said, smoking clubs should be ALLOWED to operate freely, and patrons enter at their own risk with NO RECOURSE. Same goes with employees, sorry...you do not HAVE to work there.

It would be nice if smokers in adjacent apartments provided some reasonable filtration to their effluent just as they would if it was POT smoke...out of courtesy to others. If they wont a process by which they can be ordered to do so in a minimal manner would not be so bad, a good filter fan or a screen of some kind...
or just make sure the damn smoke gets sucked indoors!

There should be no regulation against smoking in most outdoor locations used by the public...rights should meet each other halfway and abuses curbed with equal zeal.

Me and my annoying utopian views.
It's part of my therapy tonight because I am climbing the walls for Joe Camel.


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