[oldironsides]

Smoker's grab a cigarette for several reasons. One notes that a smoker will grab for a cigarette when there is a stressful situation. It could be to relieve tension.
Now we see millions complaining aboput smoking and smokers and think nothing of the pill poppers. It is OK for the chemically altered relatives and workers to drive vehicles, work in hospitals and maybe even babysit your kids. Smoking is bad. Smoking may just keep some folks from using the wonderful chemicals pushed hourly by MDs around the world. I do not smoke but I am not sure I want
anyone on chemicals as my anesthetist, taxi driver or teaching my child. Give me a smoker, please.

[F16Fighter]

"Smoking is bad. Smoking may just keep some folks from using the wonderful chemicals pushed hourly by MDs around the world."

LOL -- Now here's a great reason for the advocacy of smokers...

...So if NOT for cigarettes, some smokers might merely be doped-up zoned-out druggies instead -- admittedly far less a nuisance in restaurants than having a Bette Davis-type billowing clouds of noxious plumes onto my meal from the next table.

Oh, but I guess that's THE version of "liberty" for some posters here.