Been both a smoker of things and a non smoker/irritated massively by actual smokers of certain other things...which is what is yours to guess...but here's my 2 cents on the matter.Firstly, as a female, if I do ever have to bear a child, or someone i care about I know of is with child, I for one DO NOT want them to be forced to hang around potentially hazardous and annoying people who smoke up my air in restaurants/bars when i am trying to eat and not wish to put up with it/have it affecting my unborn or already newborn child. I also don't like seeing constant cigarette butts and boxes litter my public parks, my front lawn, and my back yard constantly from the dumb fucks who are energetic enough to crawl out of bed, get into the car at 2 am, drive to 711 and buy a ten dozen packs of cigs, but NOT energetic enough to find a fucking trash bin to toss their waste in. So laws regarding the illegality of being able to smoke in certain public areas where up until now it used to be allowed, I have little no sympathy for the dicks who whine about it. There for these people ought to be and there ARE special facilities like smoke bars or clubs or restaurants where signs are displayed that smoking IS allowed out front so people know they can do it there, or there should be parts of public areas where smoking is fully allowed, so they can hang out there far away from people who don't want to deal with it, and there shouldn't be any problem with that.That said...The way the government is attacking the whole cigarette issue is retarded. We really waste too much money on this. There is at this point in time no longer any much need to attack the issue of how bad smoking is for us. WE GET IT. And it is by the time you are old enough to biologically really think for yourself without peer pressure/fully aware of the risks someone's choice to do, i.e the age of 17 or so, whatever state law says it is, a moot point- if you are the person who really wants to start it, then you're already there and its not a big fucking deal. Unlike smoking crack or heroin tobacco will in most likely event NOT lead up to someone coming up to you with a knife mugging you for your wallet so they can have their morning fix. At worst case, you will have a very cranky case of The Mondays and maybe the shakes. The children should not do it, but preaching it like the Bible is going to only make the ones who think it is rebellious do so no matter what. Tell them the facts and thats it, stop wasting so much money on pointless assemblies and garbage, nobody is coming up to little kids with an evil gleam in their eye on the playground to sell them shit for free. A person's bad habit is their goddamn habit, and whether you want to blame it on the nicotine addiction- WHICH DOES HAVE a hold of you, no matter what you say, and even if YOU think you can easily physically/psychologically quit it just like that, remember that most people can NOT and it is not because they're all just weak pussies....(there is a whole industry centered around gum, patches, hypnotherapy, electronic cigarettes and whatnot for a reason ya know) that still is regardless an adult's decision and they are just a normal person like anyone else, they should not be villified.As to cancer- much as I don't like seeing my boyfriend smoke, and having been a witness to SO many horrible cases of ex-smokers in my store, the kind of pathetic people who have got robot boxes and tubes in their throat-... yknow what, much as I feel sorry for them, they KNEW this was coming. And help to quit is everywhere. And if you don't attempt to quit, or fully quit, before you even reach such a point, then by that point you know this was all gonna come and you have nothing to be ashamed or whine over. Everyone is gonna die someday. And if you aren't unfortunate enough to die in some really horrible unexpected way, like a car or work accident, then you will eventually die from some long slow medical complication or old age in of itself. Smoking is not good for you, but then neither is a lack of exercise, a bad diet, soda, too much sunbathing, too much candy, too much cellphone use, whatever new fad we have to be afraid of. The whole smear campaign to attack the 'EEevil corporate' tobacco industry, who often get portrayed as zealous silhouetted menaces- THEY ARE THE ONES PAYING FOR IT. Its so damn dumb. The companies who own Big Tobbaco also own food, gas, and many other industries, they don't care if you quit cigs, you'll just keep buying more of their other vices.Your comparsion to Iraqi babies and sweatshop imagery being placed ontop of cellphones and cars is ingenius. That is exactly what this is, and if we're gonna go politically correct on every stupid freaking detail, we may as well just take the whole fun out of everything, which we are probably on a very good chance of heading towards. More vices will just replace the old ones, and it all evens out. Just because some people do not like or need to have the stuff does not mean we should have to punish them. I don't like Justin Bieber and annoying horror movie remakes. But I am not going to yell at the movie theaters or the fans for enjoying them if it makes them happy.