Dear Queenie,
Whenever my family get together at my house I always ask the ones who smoke to do it outside.
However, my grandmother is in her late 80s and she is one of the smokers and I would never ask someone so old to go outside if the weather is not so nice. Besides, I think someone her age deserves a little extra courtesy. But the other smokers say if she can smoke inside, they should also be allowed to do so.
Queenie, what do you say?—Non-smoker
Dear Non-smoker,
As a non-smoker myself, I say you have a perfectly reasonable right to want to keep your home smoke-free – including your grandmother’s smoke.
Perhaps everyone, including yourself, would feel better about all this if you set up a special sheltered place outside with a comfortable chair and an awning to keep off bad weather, just for Grandma to use when she wants to smoke. If necessary, put a little sign on the chair saying it is reserved for Grandma.
