My father was a smoker, until his near-fatal stroke at the age of 53 which has left him permanently disabled and according to the doctors was due to smoking not cholesterol. Admittedly I neither like him much nor respect him, anymore. My mother, whom I both like and respect, smoked all my life until 5-6 years ago, when she quit (mainly to save money, not from any road to Damascus conversion). So no, smoking is not a sigil or stupidity or bastardliness - but getting on a high horse that one's right to smoke wherever one pleases, counting on people's natural politeness or shyness to let one get away with it and believe it's no big deal and non-smokers are just being arsy is definitely on the wrong end of the bastardliness spectrum.
I agree with the view expressed in the second half of pellegrina's post. I hardly know any smokers, but a favourite relation (now dead) was a heavy smoker, another relation smokes, and a few of bek's friends smoke I think, and I have nothing against any of them ;) So it's not prejudice against all smokers, I accept they have a range of demeanours in general, and regarding their smoking habits specifically. But I have witnessed enough smokers with a bad attitude (and incidentally poorly trained dogs) to be satisfied with my assessment of both situations.
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