... think and most will not give an inch even if the person next to them ask that they please do not smoke.

I smoked from age 19 to 50 and then quit never to go back...

What bothers me most with smokers at the tables are those "sloppy smokers" who put their cigarette in an ashtray and leave it there... I feel like saying: "Why don't you just suck the damn thing up and get rid of it rather than causing all that stink?"

Bottom line: Most smokers could care less about those around them... So asking the question you did is like talking to the wall...

JB