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        Anonymous wrote:^^Yeah...think of all of the behaviors and actions that are illegal in public or in general -- for example, hitting others, peeing, exposing yourself, even loud music in some cases....but walking around with lit cigarettes and exposing everyone around you to carcinogen-filled smoke? That's totally okay. It's crazy.

Smoke outside diffuses pretty quickly... Clearly smoking is a heated and loaded topic that you all have to resort to name calling and shaming in order to get your point across.

It doesn't always diffuse quickly, especially if it's humid or has been raining. But whether it diffuses quickly or not is beside the point -- If you're smoking near me, even if we are outside, it's very likely that i'm going to end up breathing at least some of your smoke. Whether it's a little (because it "diffuses quickly") or not doesn't matter. You should not get to decide for me what's an acceptable level of smoke exposure. If I don't want to breathe any of it, which I don't, then I should not have to in a public space. If you are smoking as you walk along the sidewalk, and I happen to be walking behind you, you're going to deliver a dose of secondhand smoke to my lungs. Or worse, my kids' lungs. [/quote]

Your lungs are far worse off by the passing cars outside than the sidewalk smoker you walked by. [/quote]

You are mistaken about this. This is a common misconception. You can easily Google 'chemicals in car emissions' or something like that and compare them to the chemicals found in cigarette smoke. Then you can look up the relative toxicities of these substances (if you don't know already). You'll find that cigarette smoke is much more poisonous than auto emissions. Furthermore, we regulate automobile emissions to keep them below toxic thresholds. Tobacco smoke sickens and kills tens of thousands of smokers and non-smokers each year. Obviously this is not true of automobile emissions.[/quote]

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