I don't know if I read this right and I do agree with you on most accounts but, "Name calling and use of profanity will be used to show what really uncaring and socially degenerate people we all really are."??? Excuse me, but I am neither "uncaring" or "socially degenerate"!!!
No, I know that we aren't, but the other side will work very hard to portray us that way and will use anything they can (including outright lies) to accomplish their goal. You see, most people not only know smokers, but they know that they know smokers. That's important. Literally all people know someone who is gay, but most of them don't know it. People care a lot more about people they know personally (and often care about) than some faceless "other" group that can be talked about as a sort of deviants and vilified.
Hence, those who want the general public to care less about smokers have to show that we are either infringing on their rights (that's how smoking bans got passed) or are somehow basically unworthy of equal care and respect. In that regard, their best shot is if they can collect instances of us behaving badly. Taken out of context, a number of the responses to that guy from the blog, at least as they were reported here, sound pretty unacceptable in polite company.
So, the short answer is "yes" you did misread it, but you probably did so because I am clueless about the use of the smilies and what many of them mean exactly. I'm sure there's one for the specific type of tongue in cheek sarcasm, but I have absolutely no idea about this. I meant that they will really work hard to slander us and that I assumed that you knew by virtue of where I am writing and what I am writing that you would read the obvious (to me) sarcasm. Nonverbals really are all of our communication much of the time.
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