For clarification: I meant smokers that live in states (such as mine) that just roll over for this cr@p.
I don't know what it is. Maybe they've been beaten down and demonized for so long they' losing the will to fight back.
I don't smoke and never have. Sometimes I see smokers do stupid things like tossing butts out of car windows and it ticks me off. And even after all this, it feels like I put up more of a fight than most of them do on this issue.