yitzchokm:
Come on. No one here is portraying anyone as vicious killers. Several of us are simply reporting known medical science about the dangers of smoking and second hand smoke. You may Google that information. It is not secret. There are also several well referenced NIH publications on the subject, and these are not political, just scientific. No one needs to tone down anything. Halacha demands that we take matters of danger even more stringently than matters of halacha. You keep quoting Reb Moshe as saying there is no issur, and it has been demonstrated that this is erroneous. You are then confronted about the matter of smoking being offensive to others, and all you can do is tell us all that you haven’t a care for anyone’s health or ability to breathe normal air, and would exercise your “right” to smoke in our presence. Your attitude on that stinks, and it needs to be toned down.
You might refer to the sefer I repeatedly quoted and referenced חיים ללא עישון where several of the poskim address the offensiveness, and attach that as an additional issur. Mostly, you are dictating to us all that you can do whatever you want, rewrite halacha if it suits you, and exercise a “right” that secular law has not taken from you. Midos, and the ways of Torah seem to have zero bearing to you. We should tone down? Maybe you should look up the references several of the commenters here shared, and then tell us if you wish to be a בר פלוגתא going up against the vast list of recent and contemporary poskim who gave their piskei halacha that you don’t prefer. Once you are coming from a position of having studied the subject, you should be able to approach the subject with logic and rational thinking. Sorry, but your stand of “I can do whatever I want” is babyish. And that is overly kind.