I was a passive smoker

 Its only in the last couple of years I have got taste and smell back
This was caused by passive smoking.  The people around me smoked Craven"A"
Very few adults “choose” to smoke. Most smokers start as children or adolescents, before they know the risks of tobacco use and the addictive qualities of nicotine. Of course you have the right to smoke, but not the right to harm others with that smoke.
Every credible medical and scientific organisation in the world agrees that secondhand smoke exposure causes serious illness and death in non-smokers.
The only group that denies a link between passive smoking and illness in adults and children is the tobacco industry.The greedy Bustards all they want is your money. Old Tom my kids granddad used to say, "its all put on to keep the working man poor."