Smoking like a chimney!

Okay--what's the deal with all the smoking? I thought it was on its way out, but I'm rethinking my position. And, of course, they were all smoking me out everwhere I went...This guy plopped down right next to me (upwind, of course) and fires up.

Growing up I always heard "smoking doesn't make you go to hell--it just makes you smell like you've been there already..."