Dear Editor,
Ben, since you don’t have asthma, you can’t possibly understand what a real asthma attack is no matter what causes it. Believe me, breathing is a serious matter when you can’t because of someone’s insistence of rights they don’t have.
The rights of anyone do not give them the right to interfere with the rights of others. Smoking out of the rain is not a right. Interfering with the clean airspace of another is not a right. Smoking is a choice and that choice cannot interfere with the rights of anyone, even other smokers.
All that is being asked is that, while exercising their right to make that choice, smokers be courteous to nonsmokers and not force us to involuntarily breathe the noxious fumes which can and will make some of us very sick.
Thank you,
Cynthia Canter

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