Yes but it strains your voice to shout, as standing near them isn't nice.

I too have a few friends around who still smoke. Not as many I used to have but some are dead, some have given up smoking. They are still friends but friends who aren't quite as nice as other friends to stand close to at times.

Absolutely nothing to do with the OP. The question was about smoking around others. People can defend it all they like, but smokers really do have to take on board the fact that it stinks far more now than it used to. The smell has not changed chemically, but peoples' olfactory senses have.

At one time, if you got your car keys out after a skinful, friends warned you that you might get caught. The same friends might warn you now that you could cause an accident and kill others as well as yourself. Society changes and smokers have to get used to the fact that consideration for others is the norm now. Society has got a hell of a lot better. Those who speak of nanny state are usually complaining that their opportunity for boorish behaviour is being reduced.

I'd make them class A. I am also on record for proposing an idea that anybody who on a certain date around now was 16 or under relinquishes the automatic right to free NHS care for smoking related illness in future. To do that, we need to tighten up on passive smoking too.