Dealing with Smoking Nazis

[dox47]

In my introductory post to the board, I mentioned how my state is rife with anti-smoking Nazis who like to be passive aggressive in public, in my case often at the ferry docks. In general I tend to ignore them, or if that's not an option, I adopt a tit-for-tat attitude, responding to reasonableness with politeness and unreasonableness with obnoxiousness, especially if I'm trying to be unobtrusive and smoking at the end of the dock or something. I'm somewhat torn however, as my instinct is to respond to rudeness/unreasonableness with such an extreme escalation of the rudeness that the offender is startled into silence, but I'm also conscience of not besmirching the reputation of cigar smokers.

Anyone have similar problems or suggestions for dealing with them?