America: Land of the Free - Home of the Misanthropes A Response to Florence King Summary/Strong Response Essay

Approaching the AD building on campus last week, I was shocked and nearly choked as I took in a deep breath. My lungs filled with cigarette smoke instead of the clean crisp winter's morning air I had been breathing. The smoke made me nauseous. I grimaced as I noticed that the smokers were not the required twenty-five feet from the entrance to the building. What are smokers thinking? Don't I have the right to breathe clean smoke free air? Don't smokers have any respect for my rights?
Author Florence King addresses the issue of whose rights she believes are actually being violated in America…