Can society just accept smokers, or will there always be a vendetta against them?

The problem is that the 20% of the population that smokes uses about 80% of the money spent on healthcare. Healthcare is expensive and since smokers are generally poor, they will usually end up tapping public resources like Medicaid to pay for their poor life decisions. Medicaid is funded by taxpayers, so even though you think your decision to smoke only affects you it ends up affecting a lot of people. I don't care if you want to smoke, honestly, but I do care if smokers use my tax dollars to pay for their medical treatments since smoking is a choice.