VRWC_Minion viciously attacks us smokers every opportunity he gets.
When it comes to smoking, any "joke" he makes is laughing at us, not with us. I therefore have no problem in laughing at him for what I perceive to be his own character flaws.
While his wife was involved in my post, the clear direction of the post was not towards her personally (said I wouldn't want to live with her and that's a fact, not an attack), but towards his proclivity to mould himself to her ideal of the perfect husband, while castigating us for failing to change in the way he has done.
I sincerely believe that an ex-smoker who chastises, gloats, demeans and denigrates current smokers is worthy of our contempt.