>>Like the rest, smoking is a legal activity, if you don't like it, then pass laws (see anti-smoking laws on beaches, parks or fireplace and debris burn restrictions, etc) but do not presume that all of the outdoors is off limits for one to engage in their chosen legal vice.
It's not about whether people like smoking: you're free to smoke as much as you want
as long as you don't extend your rights past others' noses.. That's your own definition of the limit of personal rights, so surely smokers can smoke like a chimney as long as they prevent the smoke entering others' noses. If that's not possible in a restaurant, then you have your answer. If it is possible outdoors, then go for it.
Mind you, this is outdoors and people still don't like it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFt1Ss6rWJY
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
