[EternalVigilance]

my Dad, my Granddad or my Father-in-law all dedicated smokers

How do you think your illustrious forebears would have responded to the nanny state mentality of the smoking nazis?

[justshutupandtakeit]

They were not aware of all the health risks involved. Once my granddad passed my father tried to cut back and switched from Lucky Strikes to Pall Mall filtered. My father-in-law just eventually suffocated.

Dad and the F-i-L had habits developed in WWII when the military distributed cigarettes for free. After twenty years it was very difficult to quit.

They would not have cared about laws against smoking in public since they did not go out to bars or restaurants and were careful to ask if anyone objected to their smoking (the old southern gentleman thing).