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I have written a number of articles in favor of smoking bans. My company will not hire smokers and I mean not just smoking on the job, I mean even if they smoke while on vacation in DisneyWorld (although smoking there is getting harder to do) or at home; see my Employment Manual. Just so you know, I believe the government has no right to interfere in your private life, except... if you abuse your wife, children, or even your own body or property if it harms others.

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I don't care if you live in Mongolia and smoke, as long as you don't drive and smoke on the same highway as I am on, or smoke in the same restaurant as I eat in, or smoke in the same building I am in. Notwithstanding what I just said, I not only believe you have a right to smoke wherever you want, I also believe you have a right to piss wherever you like, as long as it is not anywhere near me.

You can snot, puke, fart wherever you want, just not near me. So don't complain to me that the government has taken any rights away from you. Do whatever you like, just not near anyone else. I do not want the government to prohibit you from smoking because they want to save your health - I want them to prohibit you from smoking to save my health. Why should I care if you smoke? I don't care if you burn.

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