Paul, you've hit it on the head-'panic-reaction' G. I'm an ex-smoker for many, MANY years and really do hate smoke now, but I do try and be empathetic to other smokers. However, one of the things I hate about our American attitudes is that we fully (and WELL) support tobacco growers (I live in NC where it is a MAJOR economic issue) and castigate smokers. Many years ago I lived in a county where the major agricultural product was tobacco. Some of the farmers started to make plans to change back then. However, since we give 'allotments' to farmers (which can be bought and sold) and they make money with gov't backups or 'incentives' on those, many farmers have never considered other plans. continued below