So I'm in the bathroom (sorry if that's TMI) and happened to catch the unmistakable smell of cigarette smoke.  Now that means one of two things.  Either someone who very recently was smoking just went to the bathroom, or someone was smoking in the bathroom.

Of course, I work in a non-smoking building.  If you look outside at any given time, you will usually see a handful of people huddled together across the street in the winter as they choke down their smokes, and then hurry back inside.  But now that it's 0 outside, with a wind chill of -14 (according to Intellicast) and it was even colder earlier this morning, I have to wonder if the anti-smoking crusaders ever take into account winter when writing their smoking prohibition laws.

There are plenty of people willing to ban smoking in public buildings in order to prevent the small possibility of cancer from secondhand smoke... why don't the smokers try to overturn those laws to prevent frostbite?

Update:  OK, I was mostly joking about this, but as it turns out, it's very real.  In fact, it's worse than I originally thought.  Here is a case where a woman died of hypothermia when she had to smoke outside a long term care facility.  Via Reason Hit & Run.