They have no conscience about the damage they are doing. They have no regard for the future. Any reader with references on the relationship between deforestation and altered weather patterns is invited to provide pertinent citations and quotes or summaries for consideration for adding here. Smoking leads to alcoholism , drug abuse , mental disorder . All of these impair judgement, including management of resources for the future.
Cigarettes contain toxic chemicals .
Pursuant to standard lawbook definitions , nonsmokers' involuntary foreseeable deaths constitute murder . In 1897, Tennessee passed what was in essence a 'deforestation prevention act,' in the form of a law banning manufacture and sale of cigarettes . The tobacco lobby sued to have the Tennessee law struck down as supposedly unconstitutional. However, the courts upheld the law all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Soon Michigan followed Tennessee's lead.