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suthdj wrote:So you don't like smoking and your neighbor that smokes feels threatened by you owning firearms now your both up the creek. Get the point?

Statistically speaking, my neighbor's cigarettes will kill more people than my guns. And he can "try" not to hurt me with his cigarettes and I can "try" not to get hurt, but they can and will still hurt me, him and others. Unless I or someone else points one of my guns at him (accurately I might add) and pulls trigger, my guns will never hurt him.

Of course, running my infernal combustion engine will hurt him and me too. But as soon as he gives me a lift to work on his cigarette, I'll shut about it.

This will probably infuriate the true Libertarians here, but I'm all for smoking bans. Smoking is NOT a "lifestyle choice" that is harmless to others. I tell all the smokers I know, if you like that so much, why don't you wear a hazmat suit or astronaut helmet while you're doing it so you can enjoy all of it and we don't have to join you?

My grandmother died of lung cancer from smoking. I am seriously allergic to it (coughing fits from being around too much cigarette smoke). My mother in law smokes and I would not let her near our two children when they were infants until she changed her shirt or put on a jacket after smoking.

Smoking is not a right. Cancer kills 10 times more Texans than guns. You may have cigarette around me as long as you keep it "holstered". As soon as you light it up, you might as well be pulling a gun and pointing it at me (not literally, obviously, because there is not immediate threat that would justify use of deadly force against you; but it should be legal for me to slap you in the back of your head )