In our constant struggle to ensure that our infinitely wonderful children grow up to be healthy, happy, responsible stewards of themselves, our family, and the world, my wife and I try our darnedest to instill a solid sense of values, moxie, and commonsense. As a bonus, I go a bit further and try to develop in them a deep disgust for those things with which I hope they would be disgusted when they're more mature and calling all the shots on their own. You know, things like lying, violent aggression, drugs, crime, and various self-destructive behaviors such as SMOKING.

Yeah smoking. I have this thing for smoking -- or more accurately AGAINST smoking. It's a truly filthy habit, one that destroys not only the body of the person doing the deed, but also of those forced to be around them. To me, smoking is a particularly foul and invasive, but somehow 'socially acceptable' behavior, differing from other (legal) bad habits in that the destructiveness of other such habits is generally restricted in their purveyor.

Not so with smoking. If I had a nickel for every time I gagged on the cigarette smoke of the person walking down the sidewalk in front of me, or standing next to me at the bus stop... Ughhhhh!