plug: I'm suspecting you are referring to me.
Different governments are indeed restricting smoking in certain areas. They are inhibiting smoking, not prohibiting smoking and forcing smokers to quit. Big difference. Your freedom to smoke where you wish, when you want, has been sharply curtailed so as to quiet the masses of people not wishing to be exposed to smoke and the attendant odors. You can still be a smoker, you can refer to yourself as a smoker, indeed you may wear a tee-shirt proudly proclaiming that you are a smoker. You cannot, in certain places, inflict on others the stench and residues of burning tobacco.
I suppose this forum is as good a place as any to complain about life as a smoker. I do get tired of reading about the hurt feelings and such. My position is that you made the same choice as I did, live with it. We should all "man up" accept the fate we have selected and quit complaining about it. Just enjoy your smokes where and when you are allowed to.