Many defend smoking as a right that should not be interfered with. To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "Your right to smoke ends where my nose begins."
Unfortunately, smoke gets to other people's noses far in distance and time from where the smoker was.
Recently my wife visited an office which had a smoker. He never smokes in that office and was not there when she was. When she went to bed hours later, she wished she had washed her hair. It had absorbed the smoke that exuded from the smoker's clothes when he was in his office.
Today she tired of reading the newspaper. She said, "I don't enjoy reading the paper because it smells of smoke." One or more of those who handled the papers from press to vending box were heavy smokers who left their residue on everything they came near.
