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.
"And even after all this, it feels like I put up more of a fight than most of them do on this issue."
I know. I just don't get it. I guess it's easy enough to go underground on some issues and be subversive in your own way.
I feel that way about taxes. (But you didn't hear that from me, LOL!)