Just a quick note on "smoker's rights" No, the laws don't give smokers rights. There are no laws protecting smokers. It is not like a religion or race or something of that to be a smoker. People get in trouble and are fined for playing loud music, people have to make sure emissions coming from their cars meet a criteria and so do manufacturers to protect the general public. It only makes sense that cigarettes falls under these restrictions. In my opinion not nearly strict enough though.
Second hand smoke kills people. It makes a person who wishes to be healthy and clean have to inhale very harmful toxins, smell unpleasant odors and to have their homes stink as a result of a next door neighbor or a tenant smoking inside their homes. It's upsetting to think people have to move from their homes and break leases and have to pay penalties for such because of a next door neighbor or tenant who smokes so heavily they could not breath in their own homes and could not even open up a window for fresh air because it would come in from the windows as well as from within the common walls shared. Little kids, people's children are being gassed by toxic fumes emitted from other people's cigarette smoke and all the while smokers keep talking about their rights? What about a non-smokers right to just breath inside their homes without getting sick off of someone elses bad habit?
I don't mean to sound angry but I am annoyed when I hear smokers talking about their rights and the truth is, you have no rights as a smoker. But I do have rights to breath because I need to breath. Nobody needs to smoke.