I don’t like cigarette smoke. Anywhere. I don’t like having to walk through it on my way out of my building. I don’t like it when someone sits on my neighbor’s steps and smokes, and I can’t stand on my porch without gagging. I don’t like it when smoke drifts in my house when the windows are open. I don’t like it when I’m out in the middle of nowhere, and someone walks past smoking and I have to move somewhere else just to get away from it. I especially don’t any of these things on very humid days because the smoke just lingers and lingers
I think that on private property, the owner has the right to do very many things, including banning smoking. They don’t allow other annoying activities like car races. Why should they allow smoking? It’s private property, they can do virtually everything then want.
Public property is different. I’d love to ban smoking in my city, but that just ain’t gonna happen. Like cigarette smoke, I’d love to ban poorly operating cars that let out smells from burning oil to poorly functioning exhaust systems. I think we should eliminate mandatory inspections for the first five years of a car’s life and require inspections with increasing frequency after that, until it’s twice a year.
I would like to get something done about the sewage treatment plant, too. When the wind is just right and the air is humid enough, this foul odor creeps across my part of the city and it is truly foul!
Clean fresh air. Reduce as many sources of air pollutions as possible. That’s what I want.