"Prejudice—this is absolutely prejudice!" While Shizuka Hiratsuka might have forced herself to quit smoking out of consideration for her students' opinions, Toshiro Hijikata, that old chimney, was the sort who would keep smoking even if the whole world stood against him. So what if he knew smoking was a bad habit? So what if plenty of people suffered health problems every year from smoking or secondhand smoke?
Even if Sogo laid examples right in front of him, Toshiro Hijikata would only say, "That really scared the hell out of me. Let me have a smoke to calm myself down first..." Thus, unlike Shizuka Hiratsuka, who still had a shred of conscience—or rather, shame—Toshiro Hijikata merely fell silent for a moment before loudly arguing, "Sogo, how can you hold the same prejudices as everyone else? Even if smoking really is a bad habit, we smokers haven't provoked anyone... We've put up with those tiny smoking areas. Sogo, do you know how painful it is for us smokers to have to squeeze into those cramped smoking areas every time we go out for a gathering? If a restaurant doesn't provide ashtrays, we even have to bring bags for our cigarette butts ourselves. Looking at it that way, environmental pollution has nothing to do with us... Yet even so, this country still bears such tremendous hostility toward smokers. We've retreated time and time again, but what about you? You people who are prejudiced against smoking keep pushing your luck. Now, you won't even spare the last place we have to stay?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka: "..." What he said made so much sense that, having experienced it firsthand, she was actually unable to refute him!
?No, wait, this was the infamous Demon Vice-Chief! Why was he being driven into some tiny corner called a smoking