Today being a non-smoker is the norm

Almost four out of five people in the USA don't smoke. It's just not okay to smoke around most people, and it's illegal to smoke indoors in more and more places across our nation.
As of the election of November, 2006, seventeen States have now passed strong statewide laws requiring 100% smokefree restaurants, bars, nightclubs and other workplaces. In 2005, five States joined that list, far more than in any previous year. In 2006, eight more States signed on, bringing the current total to 17. Banning smoking 100% appears to be an idea whose time has come, and it's tremendously popular with the public as well.
Review Smoking is much less socially acceptable than the advertising leads teens to believe. The tobacco companies spent $15 billion on advertising in 2005 — up from only $5 billion annually just a few years before. A very substantial part of that is being spent on in-store displays and temporary discounts.
Tobacco ads falsely suggest it's okay to smoke around friends, and create the impression that more people smoke than actually do smoke. Tobacco advertising disguises tobacco as a normal American product. Don't buy it! More and more teens are strongly anti-smoking. The rate of teen smoking has greatly declined in many states; in California, only 11% of teens smoke. Adults, too, often speak up about their anti-tobacco feelings. People just don't want to be in the same room with smokers.