I just read a few days ago about some city council banning all smoking withing the city limits except for single family detached homes. Presumably that means all apartments and hotels/motels. It won't be long until some city or state somewhere bans smoking in your own home if a neighbor objects.
Here's the truth. Smokers are the only minority group on earth that it's OK to discriminate against. People can keep shoving them further and further to the margins and feel self righteous about it. In fact society encourages these modern day Puritans. Being an anti smoking zealot is just about the only area left where folks can exercise their "moral superiority" and get away with it.
Well put, but you forgot Christians. It's still pretty hip to bash Christians, i.e. Rosie O'Donnell's comparison of radical islam in the Mid East to "radical christianity" in the US.
Tobacco smoke is noxious and destructive. For people who enjoy smoking, that's fine. I don't care.
I have zero interest in harassing smokers, or restricting what they do.
However, if they are destroying the furniture and clothing of neighbors, they have to stop doing so. That's not discrimination. It's just common sense.