[TulliusCicero]

Even ignoring health effects, it has a smell that can be sickening for non-smokers, and you can't control where the smoke goes. Ordinances against smoking are also nuisance ordinances, not unlike rules around excessively loud music or mufflers.

At this point some smokers like to bring up "b-b-but what if someone wears a ton of perfume??" but in practice basically nobody regularly takes a break to shoot perfume several times in a row into the air around them.

[zeveb]

> Even ignoring health effects, it has a smell that can be sickening for non-smokers, and you can't control where the smoke goes.

That also applies to different cultures' bathing and perfume practises, but I think we all recognise that banning those practises would be unjust.

> At this point some smokers like to bring up "b-b-but what if someone wears a ton of perfume??" but in practice basically nobody regularly takes a break to shoot perfume several times in a row into the air around them.

You've clearly never shared an enclosed space with someone whose bathing practises — while unobjectionable from a health & sanitation viewpoint — are different from your own.

[TulliusCicero]

Ah, here come the bad analogies from the smoking apologists.

It's quite rare that I come across anyone who's even close to as stinky as a smoker who's currently smoking. Besides, as a practical matter, restricting bad body odor is not nearly as problematic as restricting smoking.