I still wonder about how smoking has become unpopular but obesity with diabetes and drug use has ballooned, is there a trade off? Which is worse?
This is the same hatred that authorities were able to leverage in the recent vaccine stuff. Some grain of truth gets distorted so that the out-group isn't just presenting an acute risk in some very specific situations, but becomes an evil that must be fought even when it doesnt actually affect us.
Reducing smoking is probably a good thing. I'm definitely happy I quit years ago. But at what cost?
It makes sense that it's different than things that don't drink and affects others directly.
I don't feel like smokers are vilified at all, people just don't like to stand or have to work in their smoke.