Matthew's Journal

I can't wait till smoking's banned in pubs, and public areas. And hopefully anywhere outdoors too, though that won't stop next door filling my house with smoke in summer when they are on their patio and it drifts up and in all my windows.

I have hayfever and am pretty sensitive to smoke. Cigars make me nauseous and bring on a migraine within just a couple of lungfulls of the smoke, even if it's outside. Cigarette smoke isn't quite as bad, but I still don't see why I should go out for an evening with friends, have watering eyes, cough constantly, and then come home with clothes, hair, me, all reeking of smoke, and have to then bathe to get rid of it from me, and wake up with stale smoke stink from the clothes and have to wash them too... jackets as well as everything else.

I wouldn't care if it stayed with the smoker and didn't end up in my lungs and hair and clothes, but it doesn't. Make it mandatory for smokers to don a hazmat suit and smoke inside that, I say.