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I smoked when I was young. Nothing serious but it was a several times nightly thing. Somewhere along the line I got tired of the stench. I still completely love the smell of tobacco, just not tobacco smoke. It's a bit like the smell of tequila if you just had a tough night with it.
As for being surprised at others' revulsion, that only makes sense to me as a form of denial. Or maybe as frustration with a difficult situation. But if I were to walk around in public launching 5-10 minute fragrant farts, and do it 10-30 tmes every day, I'd expect to generate a certain amount of animosity toward my cause. (more or less depending on my line-of-fire consideration)
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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