[JohnnyB]

I really like that smoking is disappearing in Canada. I wish the same could be true for where I live. When I'm in Canada I like not having to go into restaurants that are filled with clouds of smoke. Still, people need to be able to live with other people and get along despite the fact that what other people do might bother you on occasion. I can't believe that occasional, mild exposure to second hand smoke in outdoor environments is actually going to have any impact upon health, and there's no way the smell is more than just a minor inconvenience. Really, in Canada it's already so easy to go out and enjoy public spaces without having to share the environment with others that it almost just makes me think some of the posters in this thread never learned how to share a public environment with others.

Sorry your lives aren't perfect. Bitching about having the foul stench of someone's cigarette on your clothes because a cloud wafted near you in an outdoor environment is the perfect example of a complaint that deserves a firstworldproblems hashtag. If people don't want to live around other people and put up with other people doing things in public environments that may have minor impacts upon your experience of the environment, the option does exist in Canada to just move out to where there aren't any other people.

I support the legislation that is pushing smoking to the verge of disappearance in Canada and I share sentiments that life is so much nicer when public environments are not filled with clouds of cigarette smoke, but if someone is getting really upset about an occasional waft of smoke or the smell of used butts then I think it is more their own attitude which is causing problems for their quality of life and they should be able to take care of that by themselves.