[ddouglass]

You are right George, Smokers don't have any rights because the state legislatures have been taking them away. I don't mind the fact that they want to have us go outside to smoke, but at the same time they should require that businesses and companies provide us with safe protected places to smoke. Here we are sitting out in the cold, wet area outside just begging to get sick and we have to pay extremely high taxes for that privelege because of our addiction. Tell me what prescription drug addict or alchoholic has to do the same?
We pay outrageous prices for cigarettes because of the massive total out of balance taxes they also passed. Consider that a pack of cigarettes has somewhere in the range of 50% tax and find something else that has that high a tax rate. Supposedly this is to pay for our higher medical costs, but to be able to afford smoking we have to make enough to buy the cigarettes and usually have insurance that pays for that. So what are they doing with the extra money? Using it to sue the tobacco companies for more money which raises the price of cigarettes even more.
Now I will get off my soapbox.