no more, no less. a pediatrician looks at ALL parents as POTENTIAL abusers.

[HiPointDem]

288. bullshit. few smokers puff directly into other people's faces and puffing smoke into the air has

less effect on general air quality than wood smoke, auto exhaust, factory exhaust, or any of a number of other things.

but it's only smokers who get the self-righteous treatment from the upper middle classes -- and that's a class thing, because smoking is now mostly a working class/lower class habit and connotes 'moral' failing.

it has nothing to do with health or any realistic analysis of harm.

if a doctor "castigates" his/her patients, i doubt any of those bodies will support him. Being a doctor is not license to berate, demean, abuse and lie to one's patients. If you think it is, you shouldn't be practicing.

in my time working with the public i've been around people who reeked of tobacco smoke, reeked of body odor to the extent i wanted to puke, reeked of perfume -- and never felt the need to be uncivil or lecture any of them as though they were criminals. unless the person lights up in your office, they are not doing *anything* to you and you have no justification for your incivility.