Letter: Smokers ignore rights of others
Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2002 | 9 a.m.
Some say nothing within human ability is impossible. I disagree!
I found something impossible right here in Las Vegas -- trying to elude smokers. Granted, smokers have a right to suck on those cancer sticks. But it would be nice if smokers consider the right of nonsmokers to gasp for some decent air. Most of the smokers I have run in to are downright arrogant about their rights, and are not the least considerate about others.
It amazes me -- with all the evidence that medical science provides -- that there they are, coughing and sucking these butts, thinking the dangers of smoking will not affect them. And as far as secondhand smoke hurting others, it does not interest them in the least.
Another troubling factor is what slobs many smokers are. Butts dumped in parking lots, coin cups and coin trays replete with ashes in casinos. Too bad in Nevada that we will never see a ban on smoking in public places. The cry-baby smokers will demand their rights, and of course the casinos have only one priority -- dollars. They would side with caffeine addicts.
WALTER GUNTHER
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