Smoker wants freedom of choice

I am a female, two months shy of being 73 years of age. I pay my taxes, am free of debt, love and take care of animals. Hopefully am a good neighbor, stay very much to myself and obey the law. Yet, I find myself a pariah. Why? I'm a smoker!

So, since Jan. 1, I have stayed home. My enjoyment besides smoking was playing bingo, playing the slots, and once in a while going out to eat.

I can already hear the "brainwashed" answering this letter. "Let her stay home she belongs there." What they don't realize is -- this is not about health. It's about control. I'm not advocating smoking. It is dirty and unhealthful. What I am advocating is freedom of choice.

A business can choose whether to be a smoking establishment or not and an employee can choose their place of employment, as can a patron.

Well, this law abiding, tax paying individual is condemned to the rest of her life, staying home, staying away from the brainwashed society that she finds herself in. Thank God I'm old and don't have to become a robot.

Patricia Tsotsos

Island Lake