Sounds like your main beef is with the restrictions being placed on your filthy habit.

Banning smoking in pubs is one of the very few times the government actually got something right.
(BinDipper, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:18, 3 replies)

Last weekend
I had my first experience of a club with a smoking room. The rest of the club was pretty much black with neon lighting and pastel tables (vaguely reminiscent of that bar in Lost in Translation) but the smoking room had bright black-and-white checkerboard walls and extractor fans on full blast, and was packed with people. So packed, in fact, that a bunch of about fifteen people decided to stand chatting with their mates in the doorway, leaving the door wide open and filling the bar area with smoke. Nice idea, but fails to take account of the inherent human cuntage factor in the execution.
( .Yeti., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:38, closed)

As a smoker I agree with this.
I don't mind nipping out for a fag, it actually saves me money as I'm not lighting one up after the other.

I do get annoyed when there isn't a proper smoking area, but understand that in many pubs cases it's impractical to have one, i.e. if it's a pub on a busy high street. in these cases I will try to find a reasonably quiet spot and not stand right in the door.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:41, closed)

I wouldn't have been able to quit if it was still legal in pubs.
No way.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 16:04, closed)