Smoking

[Overmars]

I am a smoker since I was about 16 and a lot of people have told me to quit and they told all the bad consequences of smoking, which I already knew, and I basically told them to mind their own business. But lately the number of anti-smoking campaigns has grown, it has become impossible to walk on the street without seeing a big "Don't smoke!" type poster. Seeing anti-smoking billboards doesn't bother me, what irks me is that this campaigns make smokers look like the scum of the society, the ones responsible for all the bad things that happen in this world. They put smoking as a major polluting factor, next to cars and factories, they claim that smoking does awful things to your health, thus ignoring alcohol, drugs, etc, they banned smoking in most bars, restaurants, clubs and increase cigarettes prices. Are there any "proud" smokers on this forum? What are your feelings towards anti-smoking campaigns?