Smoking ban at American University will now cover outdoors, too

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86. Having been a pack-a-day smoker since the summer of '84...

Having been a pack-a-day smoker since the summer of '84 (and still smoking a pack a day), I can empathize with the grade-school defensive posturing and petulant labels of "nanny-stater" and "authoritarian" from my fellow smokers to a certain degree, yet I have pretty much relegated myself to smoking only in my apartment and in my car.

As an adult, I can't really justify pushing it onto those around who don't wish it, or rationalize my habit in allowing its damage and unpleasantness onto others. If I did think that way, I be forced to call myself 'self-centered.'

But I'm quite certain that many selfish people will in fact, justify it, and rant on with a gloriously righteous rage about a Stasi-style police state denying us the freedom to blow smoke onto whomever, whenever and wherever we want to.