ANTI-CIGARETTE POLICE PRETTY NOXIOUS THEMSELVES

Ever try savoring the aroma of a turkey dinner with all the fixings while
some sow with olfactory dysfunction infests and infects the atmosphere of a
restaurant with cheap perfume applied with a fire hose? We've all seen them;
they're the ones with the blue hair, turquoise eyeliner, and rouge dripping
down their jowls.

I recall sitting in the Glenville Queen a decade back, awaiting my turkey
dinner, when this senile but politically correct ancient relic arose from
her table, abandoning her cigar-smoking husband at said table, to come to my
table many yards away, to ask me if I could put out my cigarette. I said I'd
be happy to if she could be kind enough to chisel off about a gallon of that
excess cheap perfume she oozed.

She was insulted, while I now found it impossible to actually taste my
dinner.

It is obvious that the current desire among some to be more popular by
advocating against the behavior of others has nothing to do with health.
Some people just want to be found in company with those they believe are
more popular. I note with satisfaction that many known marijuana smokers
delight in taunting cigarette smokers.

I also note that with the rise in anti-cigarette advocacy, we see a
corresponding popular demonization of marijuana laws by the same
anti-cigarette advocates. Perhaps that is what all the controversy is really
about: If marijuana smokers can't smoke their smoke, tobacco smokers can't
smoke their smoke. So there!

Do they still kill baby whales to make cosmetics? Let's ban those, too. And
while we're at it, let's not forget that there's only one legal product
scientifically proven to kill people: food, which is commonly found in
restaurants. It's even being served by those hypocritical food service
workers whose very lives are believed to be endangered by smoke! How dare
they!

KEVIN GRIFFIN, Scotia