I had to go into town today for an appointment (normally try to avoid it at this time of year) with dd in her buggy. Even though it was only a ten minute walk from where we parked, we had to walk through/around four separate groups of people smoking. No way to avoid breathing in the smoke. I don't think I'm being particularly PFB as it would have pissed me off if I'd been alone but it was infuriating thinking of dd having to breathe it. At one point we got stuck walking behind someone who was smoking with no way to overtake. AIBU to wish that they would ban smoking in the street/outside public spaces? Why does their right to smoke trump our right to not breathe poisoned air? If they want to carry on, fine, they can stink up their own houses, tar up their own lungs and clean up their own fag butts!
AIBU?
Gowgirl
Eventually smoking will become a rich peoples pursuit as the price goes up, therefore making it desirable......anyone see a pattern.....
Yes, there will always be idiots. 
Two annotates and a fact (both from the olde days when smoking was aloud indoors)
When I went to college the canteen area was separated in to two areas, smoking and non-smoking. The non smokers where protected from the smoke by an invisible wall. The smokers used to sit and stand by the middle area and blow smoke in to the non-smoking half making it even worse (usually in the winter months). Until the non-smokers went outside, the smokers then sat in the nice warm area till the buses were about to arrive and then come outside and blow smoke at the non-smokers again.
On a fantastic, hot summer day we went to the pub, all of the smokers were outside (a rarity). So we staid inside, a smoker came in, bought a cigar, looked at us, the pub, lit up blew the smoke around, then left laughing.
The fact, in ye olde days smoking was sold to people as a healthy thing to do.
So Although I couldn't give a monkeys rectum, about lots of smokers today, The older generation do have an argument about why they started.
That having been said (background in place etc.) OP YABU. It it leagues better than it used to be.
Don't sweat it SDT- us non smokers are pretty good on gossip too 
We have a lovely hotel near us that we like to go to for a special meal. However if we go on a Saturday night, we have to fight our way through entire wedding parties (brides included) standing smoking at the front door,
Not a good start to a special occasions 
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Munstermonchgirl I agree, for me the smell of stale smoke is a memory of nights out at the disco when I was a teenager.
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