Jonah: I refer you to the entry “Why Cigarettes Were So Popular” in my August Diary (about 40-percent of the way through).

Before the advent of modern standards of hygiene and ventilation, there were even more nasty smells around than there are today. Tobacco smoke helped block out those smells, and was welcomed on that account, even by nonsmokers. … In novels of the cigarette age—I am reading one at the moment—a smoking character will ask a nonsmoker if it’s OK to light up, and the nonsmoker will say: “Go ahead—I don’t myself, but I like the smell of the smoke.” As opposed to the smell of you, is the unspoken following thought.

You may not care for the smell of cigarette smoke, but there are many more offensive smells in the human world. Many, many.