New Zealand - you gotta be this old to have rights.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

And do you have laws that prohibit people smoking around their children?

Boru

Or around disabled people or the very old ....etc

Not one's own children in the home. How would you enforce that law? Have children report their parents? Then the sniffer squad go around to see if anyone had recently been smoking in at that place?  People are advised not to smoke around infants and not to drink or smoke during pregnancy.

The elderly; smoking is not permitted in aged care facilities or hospitals. I'm elderly and do not allow smoking in my house or my car. It's not so much the passive smoking, but the stink.  Smoking discolours ceilings and gets into clothes and other fabric.

My late mother never smoked. My dad did, gave up cigarettes when he was 40, but still smoked the odd cigar. My mother developed emphysema, the doctors thought through passive smoking. Mum died with the disease, but not from it.

I read that most people who smoke will develop emphysema , even if they stop smoking. That means I probably already have it. There's no cure, and I'm doing all I can;  stopped smoking and do not remain near smokers.


Trivia: In the last few years I find that I can tell if anyone has been recently smoking near the entrance to the shopping centre. I can smell it.