A shocking number of readers have had the same idea:

Jonah,
Looks like what we need here is a little old-fashioned civil disobedience. Your reader should have his scotch-and-cigar nights and dare the government to arrest him. I have as much respect for authority as the next wingnut, but these anti-smoking [epithets] have to be stopped, and if civil disobedience and jury nullification are the only way, make it so. Alas, you couldn’t pay me enough to stick one of those obnoxious, smelly things in my face and light it, so I can’t put my money where my lungs are. But I’m with that reader in spirit!

Me: Readers know that I am a principled inactivist, but this is the sort of grassroots carpeted club room movement I could get behind. From Boston Tea Party to Chicago Cigar Smoker! Somebody get some paper moving and let me know how it goes.

“You can have my cigar when you stub it out in my cold dead hand!”