>I do not feel I have to support anyone's addiction or need to smoke. I was not being sarcastic. Some people could care less if you say, "No, please do not smoke"! I have had smoker's blow cigar and cigarette smoke in my face when making such requests.

Well, I'm not the some people then. I actually don't even ask, unless I notice an ashtray around, and if in a car, an used one.

>Had my passenger wished, I would have gladly stopped on the Bay Bridge. If smoking was really that important to a fellow human being then I am perfectly willing to comply with that persons wishes while still respecting my own.

The guy I mentioned usually answered that he'd gladly stop and then drive away, and we were 150 miles from home, at night, in a foreign country. I probably read this implication into your sentence - sorry for this misunderstanding.