She had a stroke, emphysema, lung cancer and heart disease all of which smoking either causes or aggravates. Prove that - or shut up . That is why a process called scientific demonstrability used to exist when people were enlightened - to separate beliefs from reality . But now, we don't use that anymore. All it takes today is corrupt individuals in authority positions dispersing pseudo-scientific diarrhoea on health, and everybody drinks it up saying it tastes good.
Smokers smell bad, their homes smell bad and their cars smell bad.
I agree that a person should have the right to do whatever they want as long as they don't interfere with other people's rights. You call that progress, but it is Dark Ages mentality. You do not know from experience. You know that from prejudice and brainwashing . Since passive smoke is a fraud , the prohibition to smoke in public is an assault to our liberty that is to be answered in kind .