You are either a smoker, someone who hates smoke, or you are one of those people who says you don't mind smoking so as not to alienate friends or acquaintances. But each of these kinds of people were united in wanting to know what kind of deranged husband would sue his wife to get her to stop smoking. So Dick Thomas went on their radio and TV shows to answer the question. But when they wanted to know what kind of woman would put up with a husband like that, Sally wouldn't say. Such questions drove Sally and the media into a fit, but for very different reasons.
People are very divided about smoking.
Helt was so militant about getting his mother to stop smoking that as a child he would toss her packs of cigarettes down the toilet. The scheme worked for a while, getting her to stop while Helt, a 1993 graduate of Loyola Law School, was in high school. But now, like many others who have tried to snuff out the nicotine habit, Helt's mother is smoking again. I have talked with people who say smoking is terrible, it smells bad. But most people who smoke say they want to quit.