I think they've taken it about as far as they can go here. If you don't want to be around smoke, you absolutely never have to be, short of walking past a bit hanging in the open air. And unless you're a hysterical ninny, that does you no harm. The only steps after this are serious infringements on personal liberty.
I actually had my very first experience with one of those ninnys last week.
I was at the bus stop waiting to go to work, finishing up my smoke..... they passed a law around here they you're not no longer allowed to smoke in the shelters or the stop itself, so I was about well away from the shelter, about 5 feet away from the nearest seat...... about 30 feet away from the stop was a woman standing in the parking lot of the gas station giving me dirty looks and trying to mouth something. She put her fingers to her lips like she wanted to bum a smoke, so I took my ear buds from my ears and walked towards her in order to understand wtf she was going on about. A guy closer to her didn't know what was going on either and walked towards her to see who she was talking to.
I got up towards her and said I couldn't hear what she was saying..... she replies with a snooty attitude, "You can't smoke at bus stops anymore, it's against the law."
I looked at her, I looked back at where I was standing, looked back at her and said, "I'm not even at the friggin bus stop, I was all the way over there." shook my head and walked back to where I was.
The funny thing was that due to her bitching, I had to stand right beside her to talk to her with my lit cigarette in my hand right under her nose, when where I was before, I was some 30 feet away from her with the wind blowing in the other direction. The other guy who wasn't smoking just shook his head and went back to the shelter.
Meanwhile I finished my smoke a few seconds later and looked back over to where she was, and there she was still standing by herself like an idiot with her hood wrapped around her face as if I was smoking anthrax or something radioactive, let alone 2nd hand smoke ever reaching her before evaporating.
The real kicker was before the bus showed up, another guy who looked like he was in construction crossed the road and made his way to the stop while puffing away on a cigarette..... and he didn't even have the courtesy I showed and he just strolled inside the shelter, puffing away and blowing it all over the place, then went back out of the shelter and stood right where the bus stops, puffing away and blowing it everywhere.
I turned to look at her and thought to myself, "Well.... what are you going to do about that b*tch?"
Sorry to break the news to her, but Metro Transit doesn't own the whole damn sidewalk and neither does she...... so I'll stand right outside of the bus stop and smoke as many damn cigarettes as I damn well please..... and she can kiss my arse blue.
She looked to be in her mid-60's, so I imagine she was exposed to a hell of a lot worse then my 2nd hand smoke from 30 feet away that was blowing in the opposite direction from where she was standing.
yes but look at all the movie stars and other stars that did die from lung cancer or other cancers because they smoked? still largely outweighs the ones that did live long!
I could easily look up a list.
You don't have to, since I just provided you one of celebrities and well known people who smoked and lived quite a long age.
George Burns..... the Queen Mother..... etc.
If you wish, do a search for "Oldest Living Smoker" and you'll see a number of results showing people ranging from their 90's, to somewhere around 114.