Regarding the July 26 article "Smoker-only cafes stoke ire of health advocates": I don't understand why there is so much objection to a perfectly reasonable accommodation. Being mean to smokers will not cause us to quit. We will quit, or not, for our own reasons. Missionary zeal and a desire to punish those deemed sinners is only annoying.
I was in Taito-ku (Tokyo) when signs forbidding smoking while walking first appeared on the sidewalk. What's a smoker to do? I ducked into an alley and crouched behind garbage cans. When I came out, I saw two women seated on a concrete divider in a parking lot, a man on a bicycle, and a man standing stock-still on the sign. All were smoking, and all were apparently obeying the letter of the law.
Most of us politely refrain from smoking where it is forbidden. Won't nonsmokers, in return, refrain from hounding us were smoking is permitted?