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/^t/My parents have always been the heavy smokers. One day they noticed that me, their small child turned white and chocked when she smelled a cigarette. Uneasy about this fact they took me to a doctor. The diagnosis seemed to be terrible to them. It turned out that I was allergic to smoke. My parents gave up smoking, but my future could be deplorable taking into consideration the fact that Poles used to smoke "everything and everywhere". Feeling intuitively what kind of judgement was passed on me I became a zealous advocate of the idea of banning smoking in public places.