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  I'll gladly take up the baton Howard.
  The thing is that this subject is so emotive (words like disgusting etc.) and is guaranteed to highlight the highly illiberal tendencies in people who were unaware they existed in themselves.
  So let's kick one myth into touch eh? Smoking isn't necessarily an addiction. It's a habit and I must say a very enjoyable one to boot. There is nothing finer than eating breakfast (healthy porridge with sultanas, raw cane sugar and banana with two cups of tea) rather than the junk most people eat coated in dangerous amounts of sugar and comes in a box with added vitamins.
  Those who pretend they stand for freedom, freedom of thought and freedom to live one's life in the way that one wishes to and yet mount their high horse in order to pontificate on the "evils" of a pursuit which is perfectly legal but clashes with their version of living a healthy and worthy lifestyle are deluding themselves.
  They are the Victorians, the neo-temperance movement, the puritans who whilst pontificating on the lives of others keep to themselves guilty secrets about how they live their lives. The guilt they carry must be immense and I feel sorry for them.
  They are the curtain twitchers and wholeheartedly embrace draconian laws which strangle the freedoms of others whose private lives they disapprove of.
  And yet as soon as they, themselves, are impacted by this self same legislation which might impact on their lives they bemoan the big state.
  I'm happy to smoke. I never encourage others to do so and live my life to the fullest possible extent within the confines of the law of the land.
  But I am a smoker of tobacco and it appears that I should be treated as second class.

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