Could I have , please? fought fixed performing loan ward traveller As smoking has become less socially acceptable, it has gone from being viewed as merely a dirty and unhealthy habit to being seen in moral and even existential terms as revolting and disgusting, as tainted with evil and pollution.  In the words of two scholars quoted by the authors, smoking – and I would add, exposure to even a whiff of tobacco smoke — has been transformed into something “so harmful that it defiles others.”