lifenandsold, you obviously have no respect for other human beings, which in itself is very sad. Perhaps you also have no respect for your own life? Maybe you just don't realise that every time you inhale cigarette smoke you kill off healthy cells in your brain. You chose to smoke and what you do with your own body is your responsibility. However, others in public places where you smoke also are forced to inhale your cigarette smoke. Hence, by smoking in a public place, you are also killing off THEIR healthy brain cells. They have no choice in the matter ... YOU HAVE!!! So, rather than pleading ignorance, why don't you show some respect for others and stick to smoking in your own home ... if you don't have children and a non-smoking partner that is. If you want a good shock, just get a neurologist take a scan of your brain and show you the damage smoking will have already caused. It may just wake you up to how precious life really is! Not just your life, but everybody else's as well!!! Smoking is not a necessity for life, it is a life choice and one that endangers our physical life at that. Socialising is a necessity for a healthy minded human and does not endanger our physical life. So, it is not non-smokers who need to isolate themselves, it is clearly those who still chose to smoke. But, I doubt the penny will drop as perhaps, in your case, too many brain cells have already died. I hope not though.