Jud brings an interesting point.
I really don't care much if half the apartment complexes in a town want entirely smoke-free tenants. If you don't like tobacco smoke, then hey, your home should be free from it. You can't really argue with that too well.
The laws though are the big encroachment on personal freedoms. Once you have one town doing it, once you get one law passed, it sets legal precedent and it can spread like wildfire.
It would be nice if there was more tolerance and understanding on the part of the diehard non-smokers. The same goes for smokers and using some discretion.
There are extremists on both sides of the argument that are really causing the whole problem.
There are people who are obnoxious with their smoking, and smoke when they know they're going to be bothering people just to make a statement. They get the tempers flaring
Then there's the people, like the lady at one of my old work places, who have unreasonable expectations of smokers. She had her boss put out a company-wide bulletin asking all the smokers to wash their hands after smoking, because the RESIDUE left over from smoking is irritating her asthma. I didn't really mind co-operating, but the first thing I thought was: "Lady, buy an oxygen tent and never leave your house if your health is that fragile"
