Wow...I'm not the only one allergic to the stuff! From the looks I get when I try to let people know, I was starting to feel freakish.

Never, ever, ever. I can't even be around others that do because it causes my sinuses and eventually my throat to swell shut. And I live in Colorado - the chimney state.
Neither of my parents smoke either...because their parents (my grandparents) did and they hated it. ALL FOUR of my grandparents died from issues that came from smoking!

I wish some beetle or something would come along and wipe out all the tobacco crops! Then EVERYONE would have to quit cold-turkey.