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I think a good compromise, between the right to smoke and the right to
breathe, would be to allow nonsmokers to use water pistols for
self-defense against smokers.  Business establishments should be
allowed to ban smoking and water pistols, but they should not be
allowed to ban water pistols if they don't ban smoking.

Since a faceful of water is about equivalent to a faceful of smoke in
terms of inconvenience, annoyance, etc., and since it has the added
advantage of not only reminding rude smokers to be more polite, but
also of helping them extinguish their cigarettes more promptly, it's
really a very elegant response, which should be encouraged more than it
has been in the past.

Of course we do have to do all we can to encourage the water pistol
users to be polite too.  For example, they should always aim directly
at the lighted cigarette, not at the person, and they should stay in
practice with their water pistols enough to be able to extinguish the
cigarette with the smallest possible amount of water, to avoid making
unnecessary messes.