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My sister was asthmatic, and she would go into huge coughing fits and couldn't breathe when she breathed in cigarette smoke. Why should she be punished for someone else's dirty habit?
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Why the fuck do I have to breathe your exhaust fumes? I walk into the city centre (a small northern UK city) and can taste the shit in the air. Not smell, but taste. Lets put into perspective for all you non-smokers.
1. Look at the size of a cigarette. It's not going to make a massive volume of smoke, is it? You know, if you burn something that weighs a few grams, you only get a correspondingly small amount of smoke.
2. How much petrol do you put in a car?
Litres and gallons. How many times more fuel are you burning? Therefore how many times more smoke are you producing?
3. A car is burning fuel a lot longer than a cigarette. Therefore kicking out still more smoke.
So there's my few cubic metres of smoke a day vs your double-digits cubic metres of exhaust fumes a day. Which of these do you really think does more damage to the people around you?
(and to briefly anticipate the "Transport is more important!!! I
need my car!!!" response, I really don't see why citizens need a car. You should not be allowed unfettered access to an environmentally threatening machine.)