Long, long ago, I did a brief stint as a cheerleader. Part of one of the cheers (which had a poor rhyme scheme) was:

Rickety, rackety russ!
We're not allowed to cuss!
We don't smoke and we don't chew
And we don't go with girls who do!
You may think that we don't have fun -
Well, you're right!

I think people in general are far more sensitized to this issue than ever before. My Mom dated my Dad simply because she liked him. Whether or not he smoked was never an issue (he did). Dad, something of a big-man-on-campus dated girls because he wanted to - smoking or non-smoking.

As a candidate for the dating scene myself, and even though I was a smoker for over twenty years and have now quit, I would be quite hesitant to date a woman who smokes. But I thank the gods for the non-smoking women who chose to date me back when I was a smoker!

Strange how things change...