Wally Bird,

I can not tell you how many times I have come home after being around smokers and have had to wash my hair and my children's hair to get the smell of smoke out. I'm not an anti-smoking zealot just a person who has seen both of my parents die from lung cancer. They stopped smoking after the kids were born because I asked them to but not soon enough to save their lives.

I can get over the smell but I can not get over all the lives that are lost both from first and second hand smoke. I'm all for your right to smoke if that is your choice but please don't call us zealots for not wanting to be around it.