Scott Norvell notes that even art isn't spared by the anti-smokers.

Reuters reports that an actor on stage in Italy was forced to put out a cigarette he was smoking after a member of the audience complained loudly in the middle of the performance.

Sebastiano Lo Monaco was smoking, as per the script, during a peformance of Henry Miller's A View from the Bridge at at a theater in Mestre when the woman complained. After a 15-minute break, the performance resumed with a a non-smoking main character.

In January, Italy banned smoking in all enclosed public places.

I concede that they had to put out the cigarette to comply with the law. But I would have also thrown the bitch out for talking during the performance.