The smoker lighting up is their choice....but I can't always make the choice of not breathing in the smoke. I do think art influences people. Why do you think there are so many smokers? It is portrayed as very cool, and hip, and sexy by glamourous people in the world of the arts (movies, television, advertisements, graphic representations). They wouldn't put my mother in an ad for cigarettes (she's not a pretty sight these days). Look how people rush out to buy new clothes or get a new hairdo or drive the latest ego machine because someone fashionable appears in it. Yes, people get influenced to behavior. By art, by movies, by television, by advertising, by media...human are very susceptible to suggestion and are generally lemmings when it comes to following a fad or fashion...especially if they see someone attractive engaged in the behavior. And I think when we make behavior glamourous, we are telling other people we approve of it and we think it is something that should be indulged in. We are giving our message to the universe that this is how we think people should be treated and how we want to be treated. We have a choice to whether or not to glamourize smoking, substance abuse, the abuse of women, anorexia....and our society has (as far as I can tell) chosen to tell its children these are all good things by making it all look pretty. The reality isn't so pretty. But we don't want no stinkin' reality around here. Yes, we make choices. And each choice we makes tells something about ourselves. I'm just tired of having smoke blown in my face. And, yes, this is something I don't have a sense of humor about. It isn't funny, really. It's very sad.