I'm a smoker and enjoy it, although I hate what it's doing to my body.

My view is this and I raised this same issue with the Smoker's Ordinance here in Louisville KY when they decided to ban smoking from bars, restaurants (even the outside sitting sections), bingo halls, outdoor church picnics, etc when I attended the last meeting.

I certainly do ask each and every person near me if it's OK that I smoke before I fire one up, whether I know them or not...it's respectful of THEIR lungs. I do not smoke in my house because I have a house full of animals (im an animal lover) with 2 cats, 2 ferrits and a couple of birds and they don't have a choice in what they breathe so it's only fair. So I don't smoke in the house but I do smoke on the deck outside and in my VX.

If you are TRULY concerned about "smoke" and health benefits directly related from "smoke" then surely you need to see the BIG PICTURE. The "smoke" coming from the exhaust of YOUR car, your truck, your boat, your scooter, your moped, your ATV, your lawnmower, your weed trimmer, your chainsaw..(you get my point) is FAR FAR FAR FAR more worse than the smoke coming from my cig. In fact, the smoke from the said above is helping a great deal to destroy the very ecosystem that sustains life on earth.

So for an individual or group of people that would actually support such a law, in my opinion, should be also actively supporting a cleaner environment for EVERYTHING that lives here, not just humans. I have, however, not yet found such an individual.

Just my 2 cents...

By the way, of course I drive a VX and I know what it's doing to the environment HOWEVER I only drive it about 15miles per day total. And I'm VERY aggressive with recycling and composting nearly and truly almost EVERYTHING I use as a consumer. I also have replaced all lights (including accent lights) in my home with LEDs (not the flouresants), I get all my water needs from a well on the farm (do not use city water or sewers or trash removal) and I'm in the beginning stages of completely solarizing the home.

But for some reason I just can't get rid of the VX, not matter how much I love our planet... I'm actually hoping one day to make it a hybrid or fully electric