I don't know any smokers like that now, or when I was a child and smoking was acceptable.
It is only within the last decade or so that the smoker even considered the fact that someone might not like his smoke. Then after some started speaking up many smokers made a point of lighting up to annoy people or because they were bound and determined to do whateverthehell they wanted no matter what. On buses I would have to tell them to put them out and made it clear that they would be put out voluntarily or involuntarily.
I have been around smokers all my life and lost my dad and father-in-law prematurely to smoking. Fortunately I never developed the habit nor have my boys. There is nothing positive about this disgusting habit and to find some lauding it and condemning anything negative said about it is just sad. Particularly on a site which values truth and information.