MM is a very-recently-former smoker who has what was once called emphysema and is now called COPD. Given DU-grade Progs' virtue-signal of cutting off family and friends with differing political POVs, MM's mocker is probably a Prog virtue-signaling their tobacco-free superior virtue.
I've never been a smoker, but my parents, in the 1960s, were 2-3 pack a day smokers. In the mid-late 1960s they both quit cold-turkey, no assistance (gums and patches had not yet been invented). It was a bit of a struggle for them. OTOH, the husband of my Dad's sister was a more or less life-long smoker who worked in his barber shop into his 70s with an O2 tank next to him, while still smoking (being careful not to smoke near the O2). I don't need - nor want - to mock smokers or former smokers.
