He says it better than I ever could.
In all seriousness tough, like most of the smokers in this thread, I'll very rarely light up before asking those around me if they mind or not, and whenever I'm in a public place I respect that 10 meters distance law they have over here. I try to be as much out of the way of people walking on the street as possible.
But when somebody goes out of their way to come up to me and tell about how I shouldn't smoke cause it's bad for me and think of the money and etc. In all honesty that is about as annoying a person can get in my book. If I somehow would not be conscious of all these things, I'd already be a lost cause anyway so I don't see how their preaching is gonna change anything. I've had this happen a number of times while I was outside my apartment having a smoke and I honestly cannot understand what possesses a person to do this.
I think I'd rather have someone ring my doorbell at seven in the morning to tell me how good their book is than have to go through that again. At least them religious types make for good entertainment.
Jam it back in, in the dark.