... but such a remark "sounds" to me, very much like an ... ... "I'm alright, Jack" attitude -coming from someone who's either NEVER smoked or has, at some point, successfully managed to QUIT the habit once and for all!
Coming from someone who's ex wife smoked like a chimney and was responsible for asthma in our two children. Both children were hospitalised as babies because of it - both passive smokers who had no choice in the matter at all.