Nope you can't escape the nicotine! It will still be there in the smoke and food if they cook or eat anything that contains potatoes, tomatoes or eggplant but then again as we all know after the antismoking/health/safety Gnatzies aren't going to stop at smoking they will never quit until we are all eating just soy and tofu.
But you are right there is nothing in 2nd hand smoke that these whiny hypochondric people aren't consistently exposed to in greater quantities in their day to day existence be it from cooking, campfires or auto exhaust yet miraculously those things don't bother them.
But check out this from the BBC
Barbecues poison the air with toxins and could cause cancer, research suggests.
A study by the French environmental campaigning group Robin des Bois found that a typical two-hour barbecue can release the same level of dioxins as up to 220,000 cigarettes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3106039.stm
SO, If these people who claim that smokers are polluting the air ever cooked just one barbeque then they are hypocrites because with that one Barbeque they created/released more pollution than a pack a day smoker does in 30 years!!!!!