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You may pursue your habit until it becomes an annoyance of mine.
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No sir. I get to pursue my habit as long as it does not harm you. annoying you plays no part in it. People who pick their nose annoy me. People who wear perfume annoy me, people who wear flip flops and then don't know how to walk in them to keep them from making that racket annoy me. People who think they have the right to tell me to stop any damn thing I'm doing for no reason other than it annoys them that I do it annoy me. If I'm smoking outside and you tell me to stop because it's rude, expect to get my smoke right in your face.
You want me to take my smoking outside so you don't die from it, fine, willing to go to the safety issue. Wanna make it about being annoying to you that I'm a smoker- you have far more to loose than me.
According to Judith Martin in
Miss Manners Basic Training, sorry it's a book and thats all I can do to quote a source here, the single rudest thing a person can do is to tell another person they are being rude.