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But based on your statement it appears you would prefer to antagonize non-smokers rather than seek to mutually respect each others' rights.

Not nonsmokers but anti-smokers.
If a nonsmoker comes up to me and politely asks me to extinguish my cigarette for ANY reason, or no reason at all, 99 times out of 100 I will comply graciously.
If an anti-smoker gets in my face and DEMANDS that I extinguish my cigarette, even though I am within the law smoking where I am, I may blow smoke in their face.
Or if an anti-smoker gets in my face and starts screaming about how smoking is bad for me, I'm going to die a really painful death, and SHS is killing all those around me I may just light a second one so that I can have one in each hand to REALLY tick them off

Thanks for the clarification. As a non-smoker who prefers not to be forced to inhale others' smoke, I have been called a nico-nazi, anti-smoker, and worse when I suggest that smokers should exercise what in a more polite era would have been recognized as minimal common courtesy. Apparently it is quite audacious of me to request -- however politely -- that someone not smoke in an area that is clearly and plainly designated as a non-smoking area.

It is interesting to see the name-calling (from both sides) that pops up on these tobacco threads, and I usually just laugh and don't even bother to post anything on them. But for some reason, I felt like questioning you on your post.

If a nonsmoker comes up to me and politely asks me to extinguish my cigarette for ANY reason, or no reason at all, 99 times out of 100 I will comply graciously.

I have a similar approach toward people that are smoking in non-smoking areas. If it appears that they are unaware that the area is a non-smoking area then I usually inform them very politely that they are in a non-smoking area and ask them to put out their cigarettes. If, on the other hand, it is obvious that they are defiantly smoking fully aware that it is a non-smoking area, just daring anyone to confront them for their violation (some of the more militant smokers appear to take great pleasure in this), then I'm a little less pleasant -- though even then I choose not to be abrasive, rude, or obnoxious. If they then choose to insist on smoking in a non-smoking area, then I have no problem with having them removed from the area by security (or if there is a local ordinance in effect having the police cite them).