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/^t/What about the other side rights? (Bear in mind that the non-smokers consist about 65% of the Polish society.) A few of their rights are predominantly convincing. The first is that the non-smokers don't wish to breath in being in the smoker's presence the huge dozes of nicotine and tar, instead of pure oxygen. Smoking, as they think, is also highly contagious, so they wouldn't like to become infected just by the simple contact with the cigarette smoke. Cigarette addiction, is for them, the way of slow dying. Apart from these, it's also worth adding that smoking is much more dangerous for the so called passive smokers (or non-smokers as you like) than for those who are accustomed to, through years, to it. That's why the non-smokers express their opinion that it was high time smoking in public places was banned. They animously claim that they don't want to completely deprive the smokers of their "pacifiers", all they need, in exchange, is that they wouldn't like to be poisoned.