Originally Posted by
I_Like_Bike
Well you can smoke just about anywhere outside. Try this with drinking and you will get some lectures for sure or just odd/disgusted looks and possible get the cops called on you.
The differences in the treatment of the two "habits" are based on the fact that almost everyone over 21 drinks and it appears to me that far fewer smoke (no actual numbers).
The difference is that you can generally have a drink without the assumption that you're an alcoholic, but as soon as you light up a smoke you're a "smoker". No matter how you slice it, they're both addictions and not habits.