Funny the question is even asked in a pro rights, anti more laws to control the masses, gun rights type forum. How can so many here be against any government intrusion in to private life think one way about something as deadly as guns and want to intrude on others lives and use some lame excuse.
Hate to tell you but that car you drive puts more toxic gasses into the air in a week then any cigarette. You should give up driving before telling someone else how to live their life(splinter in someone elses eye). Read an article about the removal of lead from gas, heavy metal, falls to the ground quickly, and replaced it with benzene and other carcinogens. Making gasoline more unhealthy then before.
The burning of fossil fuels is way worse then any forest fire on the air quality and health of animals.Living on the East Coast the quality of the air is deemed dangerous. Don't think it's from the smokers spending more time outdoors and puffing tuff. Low lying ozone filled with unburnt hydrocarbons and the nitric oxides from catylitic converters has made it impossible to breath clean air in the summer, not that it's very clean in the winter.
And as far as individual rights to not have to breath the stench and smoke from cigarettes do those of us who believe in less government intrusion think that more intrusion is good for us as a whole. Would any of us like not being able to shoot because of the pollutants from gunpowder? Or have to trash compact our fishing boats because of the pollutants it gives off and the oil slick left behind by a 2 stroke engine. Or maybe we should ban grass cutting and make lawn movers illegal to own.
And don't even get me started on alcohol and drinking. No one should benefit from that drug. Bars should be totally illegal. Shouldn't even be able to buy that poison since it cause my health insurance and auto insurance to be so high to cover the costs of others.
Sure we don't mind intruding on others rights as long as the bad things we do aren't regulated into non existence.