“I also had a buddy, in college, who was a pretty heavy smoker. One of the most considerate people I have ever met. If he got in your car for the first time, he’d ask if he could smoke. If you said no, or preferred he didn’t, HE NEVER asked again. At a restaurant he was ALWAYS amiable in taking the non smoking section. If he was smoking by you, he always made a conscious effort to blow his smoke away from others. And if he saw his cigarette smoke rising by somebody and (even maybe) irritating them, he’d move his cigarette, or stand or sit at a different position”
My best friend is the same. I let her smoke in my car as my way of saying, “I don’t smoke, but since you care about my comfort, I want you to be comfortable here!”
My tolerance for cigarette smoke goes way up when a smoker is considerate of others. Then it becomes a two way street of a little give and take, of mutual respect.
What I never understood, was why restaurants never designed their air system to suck return air from the back section of the restaurant. If you have the entrance section, followed by the non smoking section, followed by the smoking section, with return air in the smoking section, it would draw all air towards the smoking section, pulling smoke away from the non smoking section.