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When it comes to banning smoking in public places there are many different opinions. The whole purpose of the issue is non-smokers claim it is bad for their health as well as whoever is smoking. Well, here's a little bit of information that may put a new spin on the matter. My mother is an asthmatic. As most people may and should know, certain odors can set a persons asthma off and throw them into an intense asthma attack. That wouldn't be good for their health, now would it? Yet perfumes, candles, colognes and incense are allowed in almost every public place in America. My mother and/or any asthmatic with a low tolerance to certain fragrances, could sit down in a restaurant, or any public place, next to someone who has on a strong scented perfume or cologne and it would be a hazard to their health. Their lungs would start to close off and they would start having trouble breathing. Now let me ask you...If you are a non-smoker and you sit down next to someone who was holding a lite tobacco pipe, cigar or cigarette would you cough a little? Get annoyed and move or say something to that person? Probably! But you are the one that sat next to them, you are the one who chose to go into that particular public place that allowed smoking, right? Well, there are absolutely no places that ban perfumes and colognes. And that can be just as bad and most times worse than somebody's second-hand smoke. So, I ask myself...Will there ever be a place where nobody has to worry about their health? NO! Because we as Americans have a right to put on perfumes and colognes before we leave home. But as free, red-blooded Americans, we cannot smoke in a public place? Gee, Where's the irony in that? I think it should be up to business owners whether or not smoking is allowed in their establishment and if they allow it, non-smokers should have no comments on that places smoking rules. Besides, non-smokers do not have to go into that particular place, do they? In closing, I believe it is American tradition to complain. Nothing is good enough for most Americans. I am a lower-middle class citizen and I believe in peoples rights. Something in which this country is starting to lose because people are letting other people decide for them. Get involved and then complain. It will pay off much more in the long run!

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