We need to ban smoking in public to protect the non-smokers as well as the smokers. Second hand smoke is killing around 50 thousand people a year, it's time to put a stop to it. =========================================== This is NOT the answer! In fact, you could go back to your history books and re-read about prohibition to see why this idea is bad. It would start as taking your right to smoke away, and then later on you have NO rights, period.