Letter: Nonsmokers should look in the mirror

Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 | 7:06 a.m.

My, my, my , all these venomous comments directed at us smokers! Why , one would think we were chain-smoking in their living rooms. Funny , the resolution was passed, and still they must treat us as though we are criminals. But we're not. Last I heard smoking was legal , something these people don't seem to take into account when inflicting on us their self-righteous views.

I find it amusing that nonsmokers get their shorts in a bunch about spending an hour or two a week in a restaurant where people smoke tables away from them, yet seem indifferent to the more insidious problem of breathing the air in Vegas 24/7. Furthermore, I would bet that nonsmokers are just as guilty of polluting the air with their barbecue grills, fireplaces and lawn mowers, but I suppose they'll find a way to rationalize their contribution to pollution.

All smokers are not litterers, as Dan Heffley suggests in his Tuesday letter. I have never tossed a cigarette out a car window. The more obvious trash on the roadways is significantly more voluminous and visible , and surely there are plenty of nonsmokers who make the road their personal trash can. I think it's time for the hypocrisy of nonsmokers to cease with their whining.

Pamela Glenn-Downes, Las Vegas