Your issue isn't about smoking. Your club voted on the issue and the matter is resolved. Your issue, is a member, who has been around for a while and who helped contribute to the club, feels that his wishes outweigh the other members. I assume you are a club president or at least a member of the Executive council, and by posting this thread you are trying to figure a way to keep this senior member happy while trying to uphold the will of the general membership. My friend, the bottom line is you can't keep them all happy all of the time.
I am a club president and I am currently dealing with a difficult member. I had an issue that one of my senior members (who I consider a very good friend) brought up that deals with our club logo. This member made a motion at a poorly attended meeting to make a logo that was no longer in use, the clubs official emblem. This vote passed, but a stipulation was included by the membership present that this vote would not preclude members from using or displaying a newer logo that was recently adopted. All was well....
Some time had passed and my senior member realized that our newsletter editor and web master was using the newer logo and not the one he prefers and complained to me. I advised him that I do not dictate to the newsletter editor how he produces the newsletter and that he should take his concerns/complaint to him. He declined to do so....
After another period of time passed, this senior member again came to me and demanded that I change the logo on the newsletter and web site or he would make an issue about it at the next membership meeting. I brought the senior members complaint to the executive council and they all agreed that the old logo was inappropriate for multiple reasons. After talking with the council I went back to the senior member and suggested a minor change to the logo that would address the councils concerns but, the senior member refused to compromise. In my further attempt to reach a compromise, I invited the senior member to attend our next council meeting. He refused to even answer my invitation to try to resolve the matter. After much discussion at the council level, it was decided that the old logo was inappropriate and that the council would address the general membership with our concerns and directly confront the problem.
The Vice President speaking on behalf of the executive council explained the problem and made a motion that a committee be formed to create a logo that was acceptable. This committee, would develop two or three choices and present the finished work to the general membership for a club vote. The general membership with more than half the total members present, voted in favor of this motion 66 to 2. I then attempted to appoint my senior member to the committee so that he could be directly involved with this project that he stirred up and was so concerned about, and he turned me down!
This member who I still consider a friend, hasn't spoken to me since that meeting and has made it well known that I am no longer any friend of his. He is angry because I refused to stand by him in a matter he felt was important.
This is a similar situation to what you are dealing with, one member who has been around for a while and isn't afraid to make noise, is mad because he didn't get his way.
As the president you must do what is right for the club as a whole, and follow the will of the majority of the members. Thats what being a good president is all about. Sometimes in doing this, you will loose a friend, even though you did everything you could to reach reasonable a compromise. And as much as you hate to, when a member has a temper tantrum because they can't have their way, sometimes you have to use kindergarten tactics!