Uh, it appears the author of the blog you address, rrgabe23, must have had a rather extreme change of heart. Either that or he became the tobacco industry's whore.

>> It shows that the city realizes that secondhand smoke is an occupational health hazard,” says Siegel, a professor of social and behavioral sciences. “Everyone deserves to work in a workplace that is safe.”

The adverse effects of secondhand smoke are now well recognized, he says, pointing out that it causes about 53,000 deaths a year in nonsmokers. Because the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health declared that involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke should be eliminated in the workplace, many local governments, including 200 communities in Massachusetts, have prohibited smoking on job sites -- public and private. So have two states: California and Delaware. A few major cities have banned smoking in all restaurants and bars, including Santa Fe, Honolulu, and Boulder, Colo. Boston would be the largest city thus far to enact such a ban, although Mayor Michael Bloomberg is also considering a similar regulation for New York City.>>

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Look, I really don't care about smokers. They have the right to kill themselves. However, their right stops where my lungs begin. Smoking is the only still-legal act one can do that directly and adversely impacts another person. Driving while intoxicated (whether by alcohol or drugs) is illegal and is the only other thing I can think of that is similar to smoking. I also don't want to pay the medical bills of smokers. The original poster has her head in the clouds. She'll unfortunately die, yes, but would rather believe death is not of her own making.

You can smoke in your own home. Period.