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I could careless if characters in books smoke or not. I rarely notice if smoking is mentioned in a book when I am reading. Smoking doesn't it bothers me if I see it in a movie.
There is a great scene in The King's Speech dealing with smoking. Bertie's speech therapist removes a cigarette from his mouth during their first session. Bertie tells him that his other therapists had instructed him to smoke when speaking because it loosened the larynx (sp) and would decrease his stutter.
I laughed because it was probably actual advice given to stutterers by Doctors that would be complete BS. Would you tell a 6 year old with a stutter to smoke? And there was plenty of smoking in the movie even though a fair amount of time Bertie would end up losing his cigarette.
I don't like smoking because my Grandfather died of lung cancer, he was a heavy smoker, and my Mom is fighting lung cancer, she smoked for a couple of years 40 years ago. I don't like inhaling other peoples smoke because it smells awful and I am concerned that their choice of bad habit increasing my already elevated risk of developing lung cancer. I have seen what it does to people and it is awful.
You are free to do what you want as long as it does not hurt me. I don't fully buy that second hand smoke is as dangerous as people say it is, but I am going to error on the side of caution and say keep your smoke out of my lungs. That is not political correctness, it is self preservation.
Not to mention, it smells awful. I don't want to leave a bar smelling like smoke because it smells bad. I don't want to eat at a restaurant where I have to smell the smoke because it inhibits my ability to enjoy my meal. Just like I don't want to go to a movie and listen to the people around me talk on cell phones or with each other because their conversation inhibits my enjoyment of the movie.
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