<p>I think the bigger question here is at what point does your freedom become more important than mine? You can’t reasonably argue that there are significant health effects from walking past someone on the sidewalk who is smoking. You might not like the smell of it, but the amounts you are actually inhaling are so insignificant that they are not cause for concern. If we’re talking about being trapped indoors with it for extended periods of time, then you have a case. </p>
<p>It wasn’t all that long ago that universities often allowed smoking -inside-. One of the lecture halls at my school has seats with freakin’ ashtrays built into the arms. They obviously haven’t been used in a long time, but smokers have already conceded to the fact that smoking inside was a hazard to the health of other people. So they started going outside. </p>
<p>The fact that so many campuses have gone “smoke free” on paper, but don’t actually enforce the policy is testament to the fact that this is not really a big concern for most people. </p>