I'll smoke an occasional cigar, maybe 5 or 6 a year, but that's it.

Never smoked cigarettes and never will.  

And the average cigarette is full of nicotine and terrible added chemicals with the intention to kill the population.  In our area, cigarettes are about $10.00 a pack.

In the old days, people would smoke tobacco using corn pipes.

In 1981 I worked at a gas station and we sold cigarettes at .57 cents a pack and a pack of 10 for $5.70.  

I also hate the way cigarette smoke smells.

Emphatically agreed!  And the persistent feeling of asphixiation or hypoxia that it can produce.  Alas, from birth to leaving home for college, I was engulfed in the 2nd-hand smoke from my parents, who had smoked since their high-school years.  They would even smoke at their usual near-chain rate during long family drives in cold weather to visit relatives, allowing no relief by fresh air to their children: "Close that window! It's too d@#n cold outside!", my father would growl, as they stubbornly continued to smoke cigarette after cigarette.  That gross lack of consideration for their Catholic-family's worth of children was their only fault in the genteel Southern manners with which both were widely credited.

So I have no tolerance for smoking in my presence, for the easy-to-understand reason that it fouls otherwise clean air that I believe I'm entitled to breathe at all times.  But the "try-honey-instead-of-vinegar" approach rarely works on smokers; the grip of the addiction seems usually to be too strong.  Of course, my refusal to tolerate it puts me at a social disadvantage in the region where tobacco first became an important cash crop (dating back to early British colonies in North America).

The only means I've found for increasing my tolerance of that 2nd-hand smoke are fermented beverages, but they seem to need to be chain-drank; I assume that their effect is to locally anesthetize my mouth & throat.