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I'd also like to say that attempting to establish a universal set of moral code is impossible, at its very root, due to simple societal differences throughout the world. Different societies have different ideas on morality AND the way that immorality is punished.

Additionally, moral code cannot be established without taking into account the morality requirements of one's religion, spirituality, etc.- and since the entire world is not of one religion, we again have an impossible factor.

In my opinion, the best we can do for a moral code is don't do intentional harm to others, try to help others if you can and want to, and try to be a good person in general.

Does smoking where others can inhale your smoke make it immoral because it can harm them? I think using the word "immoral" is a vapid, self-righteous hyperbole in this case. Does it make you a bad person? If you did it on purpose, with the specific intent of causing harm, then sure- but is this the case in the vast, overwhelming majority of smokers? Obviously no.

I think it's crass, at best, to call someone immoral for just smoking around others. The specific act of calling someone immoral is a conscious application of your morality on another person- and while this is a necessary act in a general sense, I think it's absurd to apply this severe type of judgmental language on another person for smoking.

Occasionally being near someone who is smoking, and getting a whiff of their cigarette, is not going to harm you. Second-hand smoke is harmful when you're in a room with smokers over time, when you live with a smoker, when you work with people who smoke in the same area, or when you go to places in which people smoke- like restaurants, bars, clubs, etc. Then, you're sitting there inhaling it for the length of your meal, or your time there drinking, or your time there doing whatever it is you're doing. You then repeat that every time you go there to eat, etc. That is why it is now banned in so many places. Occasionally getting a quick whiff of an errant exhaled puff from someone who happens to be near you (out in the open air) is not going to send you to an early grave from cancer. It's just not.

The anti-smoking policies in many states and countries of the world are progressively eliminating the second-hand threat by taking it away from public areas so that you're not exposed to it.