A few years back there was an out of state group pushing some draconian measures here in Louisiana. Some of their agit-prop had some statistics I thought were questionable, particularly when they presented a table of "tobacco related deaths" by age group. I saw a handful of surprisingly young people dying of tobacco related deaths so I did some digging into where the stats came from, and it turns out they had died in a house fire the fire marshal had determined the cause to be a cigarette.
Through Christian service, I visit elderly shut ins.
One, a seventy six year old man, had to get a denture. The dentists absolutely brow beat the man because he smokes and he blamed his loss of bone due to smoking. Every time he has to go to the dentist, he treated him subhuman. He was even rough with him and hurt him.
He was already traumatized that his years long battle against gum disease had been lost and was very upset. The evil of the dentist was more than he could cope with and it led to self hatred because of the stress. He wanted to die but I knew from speaking with him that he was not suicidal. He was just not wanting to live anymore. He was overwhelmed in fear, self loathing, sadness and misery. He is the nicest man, too. I love him.
So I took him for his appointments for support and he wanted me to come in and hear the meanness. So I accompanied him. During my first visit the dentist mentioned smoking and I irrupted saying the man had already heard enough of that; it was making him feel hopeless, and so the dentist could just STFU about it now. You should have seen his face. Like a baby with his hand caught in the cookie jar.
I accompanied him for six more appointments praying the whole time until the atmosphere changed and his care became professional. Smoking Nazis are sadistic.