Reply #77: As soon as you are designated as part of a "group"...

[rasputin1952]

that can be stigmatized, you become a 2nd class citizen.

Smokers are not being treated as people with an addiction to a substance, basically a medical/psychological diagnosis; anti-smoking advocates that increase their pull "exhibit" smokers as evil killers of innocent children and others via 2nd hand smoke. That is the classic tactic of moving people down the scale of citizenry. It has been used time after time against group after group, regardless of the situation, the object is dehumanize a segment of population...it works.

That is why many smokers are receiving scornful looks from others, or worse yet, actual confrontation to the point where an individual is denigrated...second class citizenry in the works.