In 1975, British delegate Sir George Godber informed the World Health Organization how to get smokers to quit: foster an atmosphere where it was perceived that active smokers would injure those around them, especially their family and infants or young children who would be expos …

Smoking bans have become an ever more popular way in which non-smokers can prevent smokers from annoying them. The argument, such as it is, revolves around the fact that non-smokers have no choice when "subjected" to the habit of smokers in "public" venues.