Yes that guest was rude. She was also very funny. For the record my Dad quit smoking many years ago, about five years after that lunch, and he remembers that meal time with great humour.

And Frank what you say about treating the planet badly rings true in our local park. Smokers seem to think the public beach is a public ashtray. I have fantasies of dumping my kitchen scraps on their front lawns the way they dump their butts on our beach.