I don’t hate anyone – just their words or actions. I have been a smoker and a non-smoker. The only time I hate people for smoking is when they are smoking right into their children’s faces or around them – I feel bad for the children who didn’t choose to be exposed to the smoke. Along the same lines, I do not tolerate smokers inside the public playground where my kids play – I find that to be a problem because they should respect the space where children interact and I tell them so and ask them to put their cigarettes out. Otherwise, when it comes to myself, if necessary, I will move away from a smoker, but I don’t consider it to be such a horrid thing. And, yes I am aware of smoking’s impact, I work for the American Cancer Society.