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If you blame the auto companys for making the air toxic and not the consumers that buy & drive SUVs (Which incidently, if people weren't buying, automakers would stop making), then how can you put the blame of smoking on the consumers that buy & smoke them, but not the companys that produce them? I don't follow the logic there..
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Oh, I blame the companies and every entity that profits from it as WELL, but...I think a little more "blame" (if you wanna call it that, I wasn't really bringing vehicles into it myself) could go towards smokers than drivers in general, considering vehicles are used for transportation or could at least arguably be used to transport a family around, whereas smoking is for the sole benefit of the smoker, and has no real "use" other than the chemical dependance.
One is useful, the other, is not.
Both destroy the environment and bring health down...I personally ride my mountainbike most places, so the whole "car" thing doesn't effect me one way or another. However, the amount that nonsmokers come into DIRECT contact with smoke is damn near unavoidable.
To me, the whole outdoors vs indoors thing doesn't quite gel either, I mean, when you're indoors in an area that smoking is accepted as the done thing, someplace that a nonsmoker wouldn't be able to say shit, all good...but when you're outdoors, inevitably you'll be in the path of nonsmokers too, public being "neutral ground" for lack of a better term, they have as much right to not smoke there, as you have to smoke there...hence the complaints about their complaints in these circumstances just go around in circles, what it comes down to is choice...but, I think you have to acknowledge that if you DO smoke outdoors, you effect other people, whereas if it was confined indoors, you effect only those that CHOOSE to put themselves in that situation...because when you're in public, however bad the auto companies make our environment, and breathing air, however bad that is, you're still making it worse, which is why there will always be these complaints.
One party feels they have the right to smoke, the other feels they have the right to fresh air, as unpoluted or poluted as it may already be...but when you really consider the ONLY factors in this particular discussion, A vs B, essentially, as long as you can effect the health of others and not just your own, it's not really an argument that would redefine smoking as anything other than a selfish habit...
As for in the home, if you're a smoker, you're a smoker, and it'd take a damn impolite son of a bitch to come into your residence and demand you stop.