Smoking in public places

Don't get me started.

I don't know what makes smokers think they have the right to foul the air I breathe. The effects of secondhand smoke are well documented... it takes a certain kind of self-serving rudeness for smokers to subject me to their smoke.

I have nothing against smoking. If smokers want to smoke in their homes or walk around with a bubble on their head so their smoke doesn't affect the rest of us, smoke away! Have a blast! Smoke your brains out! But don't let your smoke blow in my face. It makes me sick to my stomach, it causes me sinus infections, and it's just plain nasty.

Here in Connecticut all our restaurants are smoke-free, thank God. New Jersey is about to go that way at midnight tonight, and pardon the pun but I think a lot of people in New Jersey are going to be breathing easier. The next step is to make the casinos smoke-free. There will doubtless be opposition to that, because some people think they can't gamble without a cigarette in their hand, but they'll get used to it.