If I were seated within earshot of you in the restaurant, and you began wheezing and frothing with an asthma attack, I'm probably going to feel some sympathy for you, but I'm also not going to enjoy listening to you wheeze, and watch you treat yourself with your inhaler, while I'm trying to eat my dinner. Unlike you, however, I'm not in support of petitioning the government to have you banned from the restaurant. I'm not poking fun at asthmatics here, just drawing a parallel. Your asthma is your unfortunate problem that you must deal with. Saying that smokers should be made to pay for a problem that is yours sounds a bit too socialistic in my opinion.