"Smokers have rights"?? I'm confused. Your rights end where the rights of others begin and since the air is nice and clean and you poison it and when it's the air that I have to breathe that is where your rights end moron. Smokers don't have rights unless they are poisoning only the air that they breathe. Maybe we should add a tax to cigarettes like $6-8 a pack to pay for filtrations systems on planes so you can go into a small cubicle and smoke, but you pay for the system through these taxes, not me. Idiots like you are what ruins life for everyone else with your thinking that you have rights regardless of who it kills.

You are a huge tool. Why should my health have to suffer at your stupidity? Just because you don't care that you die of lung cancer does not mean that I want to as well. When you are in a building with a smoker you are breathing that junk in. No one should have to breath in dangerous chemicals against their will. If it is your choice to do so fine but do not include me cause I take it as an endangerment to my health and I believe in an eye for an eye. Might as well just shoot yourself, a bullet is a whole lot cheaper than a pack of smokes.

Never gonna happen. Soon you wont be able to smoke anywhere except your own bathroom. it's about time. Ya see, I also have rights.

Those rules exist on all airlines, so he knew well in advance. Maybe you should take his place. Obviously you are just as stupid as he is.

You don't "really" think that those non smoking areas keeps the smoke out of the non smoking ones do you? If so....then your smoking has affected your brain. I can even smell the smoke when someone is lighting up outside, in what is supposed to be fresh air. Instant headache right between the eyes! Even if a smoking person goes outside or wherever, when they return, us non smoking people can smell the disgust of them when they return. It hangs in their hair, their body, and their clothes, not to mention how bad their breath smells. It definitely is a catch 22 situation, where no one wins and everyone loses.

Not everything in life has to be the "equal" for all.
Life is made up of choices and the end result is people DO WHAT THEY WANT. Your choice to smoke results in conditions on how it affects others,plain and simple.
You have the right to destroy your own life, but you don't have the right to slowly murder all of us who don't smoke. Your choice is for YOU, not me and my children. YOU made a choice to smoke, those of us who chose not to made a choice as well and in a democracy, majority rules.

I think that the middle east has it 100% right on their punishments for their people. Maybe if the US adopted some of their punishments we wouldn't have as many of the problems that we have. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, or in this case, accept the punishment.

I dont care if people smoke, its thier bodies. BUT...........Smoking is a vice and it does not entitle you too any rights. Smokers cant seem too get it through thier thick skulls that people who do not smoke do not want too smell it, breath it or get it in their clothes. My brother chews tobacco. He hates cigarette smoke. He says the result of his vice is nice juicy tobacco spit (he doesnt spit on the street or ground, chews and collects it in a cup or bottle and disposes of it.) He equates the tobacco spit too cigarette smoke. He says how would smokers like it if he just spit his tobacco juice on them? Spit it in thier nose so they have too smell it? Make them walk through a puddle of it everytime THEY walked out of a building. Same with drinking alcohol. It makes me pee. How about if I pee on you smokers everytime I have too walk through your smoke cloud? Is that our "chewers and drinkers" rights?

WTF. Just go lick the tiolet seats at Grand central staition.

I used to use smokeless tobacco. You smoke, I chew, You blow smoke on me, I'll spit on you. I had some good fights when I did spit a large mouthful of tobacco juice on a smoker. Smokers DO NOT have the right to endanger my life with second hand smoke, as I never spit on the ground in front of people in a public place. And tobacco spit IS disgusting. I have and I will fight for my right to live my life without breathing other peoples rude behavior.

I do feel your pain about high taxes on tobacco products but the tax increase we'll see on April first related to the S-chip bill was passed way before Obama took office. I'm sure we will find plenty of stuff to blame him for but I don't think we can give him the rap on this one.

Donna,

I have no objection to your right to smoke, really, none whatsoever, as long as I can get out of range. If I cannot then you are violating my rights. If people who do not wish to smoke cannot get away from you then you no longer have the right to smoke. It really is that simple.

Donna as a non smoker and business owner, I pay throught the nose for people like you to be included on our company health insurance. I pay when employees are off 'sick' smokers cough, or their children are 'sick ' asthma. Most use their 'personal paid days', its surprising how healthy they are when they have to use their vacation days, when the personal are used up. Yes you have a right and pay taxes, but your taxes don't equal my by any means

Those of us with asthma and other related problems actually enjoy being able to go out and not have carcinogenic compounds blown in our faces. Smokers have rights....smoke at home or in your car, and leave the rest of us the clean air. WE have the right not to be killed by your second hand smoke.

I'm a non-smoker; can't stand the smell of it. However, people should not be so quick to condemn other people's habits. Yours might be next on the chopping block, and what once was considered normal societal behavior, might have you looking like a criminal also.

Aside from that, the poster is right...there should be smoking areas available as long as they don't contaminate the air of a non-smokers.

I post this response because I am NOT happy with the quickness that we all condemn a fellow human and shutdown any of their opinions down because you feel the majority is on your side; this country is becoming a nanny state. "I don't care about your rights; I won't serve this food because you're fat" is coming up next.

Stupid authoritarian minded people bring you dictators like Hitler. Or Obama. or Bush.

Sheep!

I am not sure how you can suggest that your right to damage others health exist.
Said another way:
You do not have a RIGHT to make me miserable, sick, or to make my clothes stink!
If you want to smell horrible and look stupid do it in private not in public. Then you can make your familly and especially your children (that don't get the choice) deal with your nastiness as much as your conscious will allow.

Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool....

You dont have ANY RIGHT to MY LUNGS and what goes in them just as I dont have any right to say what goes in yours.You can go home and have cigarette sticking out of every orifice you have and as long as I or my family dont have it going into THEIR LUNGS have it it !

I am an non-smoker and i support people's right to breathe "clean" air (even though if you live in a city, cigarette smoke is by no means the only deadly poison that you breathe in), but i feel that regardless of how much you may hate someone smoking, that doesn't give you the right to abuse them. What if a person addicted to food was treated in the same manner as a person addicted to cigarettes. labeled and every time they picked up a hamburger a random stranger told them they should quit eating those coffin nails? that would be consider incredibly rude and insensitive. what would you feel like in their shoes? even when some is smoking outside in designated area's they receive dirty looks from strangers. i don't think smoking indoors is right, but nether is treating random strangers with disrespect. just chill out and walk away

you are selfish and self serving! Your rights a terminated when you force other people to take in your filthy air. If you want to kill your self, don't come to anyone to pay for your health care. It's a proven fact your kind require more health related services!

Please understand that we don't care how much you pay in taxes. The cost of paying for your lung cancer or other disease far outweights it. Would you like it if I came to your house and lit up some incense?