same thing happened when i was on holiday but in reversed
situations, mine was the table smoking. i'm a non smoker myself, 4
friends seated at my table . the restaurant we're at allows smoking
and 2 of us were smokers.
what happened was we seated ourselves beside a family of 3 or 4
people(i can't recall if its one or 2 kids) and my 2 friends
started smoking, it sucks enough to eat with someone who smokes, to
make it worse when i talked to him about stopping because of the
children and he made it out its their fault they're seated here, so
i just finished my meal quickly to abbandon them for my hotel room
and ignore them for most of the trip and since this day 2 years
later i always make it a point to object strongly if someone i know
smokes while having a meal with me, i'll just walk off if they
still think its ok to continue.
i think that incident made me realise how much i hate smokers
when they invade my personal space.