I am living proof, that you don't have to smoke yourself to be affected by other's smoke!! They found a nodule on my lung back in 2000, and I NEVER smoked but I have lived around smoking all my life.

I hear you, I was raised in a chain smokers environment as a kid you don't get a vote. I even had to clean up the mounds of butts piled up in a night. I just wish smokers would not shove their smoke down others lungs against their will.

I became a smoker in the service,at 10 cents a pak at sea. I am so glad I was able to quit.

Pass it..I don't want to smell other peoples stink.

I BELIEVE it! Second-hand smoke kills other innocent people who are around smokers. Smokers can NO longer say that they are only hurting themselves!!!

People who would never think of hitting you with a baseball bat, stabbing you with a knife or running you down in their car think nothing of making your breathe their smoke. The ultimate irony.

Smoking is like FARTING; the only person who enjoys it is the one doing it. To everyone else, it is disgusting and STINKS.

Haha... that's hilarious...and true :-)

How is it the flavored cigs were banned but not the flavored skoal?

Marla...that's beautiful.

Thanks Star & Heather; I call 'em like I see 'em.

WUHOOO!!!!

YEAH CONROE...good for you!

Yeah, I'm a chronic asthmatic so I welcome it.

Whoo-hoo!

awesome!

Wake up Texas, smoking is a health hazard for everyone. If your not going to give it up then don't complain about how high health insurance is!!

The ban passed in Colorado some time ago. There wasn't a noticeable dip in the flow of people or the money they were spending at bars and restaurants. Several local owners even said they gained the business of folks whose breathing difficulties kept them from being a patron at those establishments before.

i SO totally agree! Y cant we have a smoke free world? it would help the environment and stop people from getting lung cancer and people getting second hand smoke which is easier to get than people who smoke!

i told disagree

Yeah, secondhand smoke is not dangerous, that's why I've been hospitalized nine times since 1992 for asthma. No, not dangerous at all.

Is not Tanner talking, is the addiction to nicotine. We will help him by getting this bill passed, even if he doesn't know he's being helped.

When I was the face of the tobacco counter-marketing in Ohio when it went smoke free, the Ohio quit line got so many calls, they had to "outsource" the line to Denver. Not only is it a good bill for non-smokers, but for the 85% of smokers who are trying to/have tried to quit. Get this bill passed, and maybe Texas will see a 400% increase in active quitters like Ohio did.