Smoke-Free Traveling

As a non-smoking traveler I am often annoyed by the odor of cigarette smoke into my breathing space while on long or even short flights. Rather than continue to complain about the discomfort this causes, I have come up with two possible solutions to this problem of “health rights”:

1) Airline smoking sections (and even restaurants) should be equipped with clear plastic bubble canopies which could be easily installed over each smoking seat and would be unrolled to completely enclose the smoker in his own smoke. This would end the “rights” problem; the smoker could do his thing while the non-smoker could conceivably breathe freely while sitting next to the “smoker in a bubble.”

2) If that doesn’t work, non-smokers, taking their cue from Col. Moammar Kadafi, might draw imaginary “lines of death” around themselves, declaring that if their breathing space is invaded by a foreign puffer’s smoke, they will declare war! According to Greenberg, this has already started to happen.

DAVID J. EAGLE

Los Angeles