A large part of the planets population are offended by smoking, but for many years we’ve been quiet and polite and generally aquiesced to smokers desires.

Now the smokers are being suppressed, the middle opinion folks are finding it pleasent too. I am happily surprised by the opinion poll results.

I’m reminded of a bit from Gasman Johns twenty year writing epic (http://www.johnpowell.net) talking about scavenging exhaled anesthetic gas, he states:

[i]Scavenging of waste anaesthetic gases and vapours did not come into routine use until 1976. I joked at the time that anaesthetists would give up the job up once they were stopped from inhaling the vapours that hissed out of the expiratory valves, but I was wrong; it was a blessed relief! Within one week of scavenging being installed at Southmead I swore I would never work in a theatre again that did not have it. It is amazing that we had failed for 130 years to appreciate that there was a problem.[/i]

The last sentence is the point. There always has been a problem with smopking, and its only now that folks are getting it.