Quote (Black487 @ Jan 24 2011 05:18pm)
You're wrong and here's why.
In the U.S. our rights end where the rights of others begins. In other words, your right to swing your fist ends before my face, and vice versa. As you smoke you are breaching the personal space of somebody else.
Second hand smoke has been proven to he harmful by overwhelming amounts of evidence. You can't argue this fact, I just posted a studies where the conclusively found a link between cancer caused by second hand smoke to non-smokers. The higher the exposure the higher the risk. But the risk is still present even in infrequent exposures. Accumulate exposures over time from doorways, sidewalks, establishments that allow smoking, etc and it could pose a risk. To prove your point, would you willingly expose yourself if only briefly to environments containing asbestos several times a day over your lifetime? Would you accept that exposure for no apparent reason?
Pretty sure asbestos is a little more dangerous than cigarette smoke. There's no point in arguing because neither of us are going to change our minds.