Get newsletters, cool content and more. Claire defended smokers' alleged right to smoke, but failed to mention even once what smokers have forced on her. Frankly, I really don't care if smokers choose to do damage to themselves.
Smokers can make their own choices.
I choose not to smoke. But the act of smoking forces everyone near the smoker to smoke too, whether they want to or not. The smoker, then, gets to make my decision to smoke or not. For over 300 years, non-smokers were expected to tolerate smoking, regardless of its effects. In the past two decades, non-smokers have said they've had enough.