Smoke? I don’t care if they burn.
Seriously? Addiction to alcohol is far, far worse than cigarette smoking. You’ve never been around a drunk? You’re damned lucky.
Although it does suck when a smoker falls asleep in bed on or on the couch, set the furniture on fire, and the house burns down and occupants wind up on a burn ward.
In other word, addiction can do very bad things.
I can’t imagine it coming up. I don’t even think my apartment building allows smoking.
Oddly, when I loved in China, I would let my friends light up indoors. I guess indoor smoking is so common there it didn’t bug me, and it’s not really a place to get too picky about air quality.
That wasn’t the question. The assertion was that more people are harmed by beer (specifically) than smoking. Plenty of people drink beer responsibly without harming anyone. No one smokes without harm.
When I was in my early 20’s and living in the UK (around 1960) I remember visiting a mate’s wife in hospital, and we all sat around the bed smoking. This was in a ward of about 12 patients. No one gave it a second thought.
Also, in Australia in 1990 there used to be ash trays in Maccas for the smokers. Amazing how times change.
No. I don’t have any friends who smoke, and I don’t need any migraines than I already get. My sister started smoking at 13 and continued till she died 30 years later; my mother smoked right up to her death, and my father smoked a pipe, cigars, and cigarettes until his first heart attack. It took long enough to get the stench out of this house.
But that was obviously the implication.
As a kid I had constant bronchitis until I moved out of my smoking parents’ house to go to college.
I was just telling some students about smoking on airplanes. They couldn’t believe that that used to be legal. When I told them my college professors smoked in class, they were stunned.
Which would be as incidental as a foodie setting somewhere ablaze with a neglected fryer.
Worrying over either remote possibility, no matter how terrible, is not as nerve-wracking as waiting for your regular beating on Saturday nights 'cos Daddy’s pissed in every possible sense of the word.
Hell, when I did smoke I didn’t do it in my own home. I couldn’t imagine somebody else lighting up in my house - they can take it outside.
I have known of a couple of local fires from not putting out smoking materials properly.
I had a creepy neighbor in the mid 90’s who always looked out his glass doors smoking and staring at you. I was still shocked when his apartment went up in flames due to careless disposal, and he died.
When I was in a Catholic girls school in the early eighties we had a smoking yard.
When I started working at a large hospital in the late eighties, smoking was allowed, but most employees did not smoke inside the office. I remember one secretary upstairs from us, her area was always a haze of smoke.
I remember smoking on public buses and at movie theaters, in the early eighties also.
All these things seem so strange to me now. I am an off and on smoker. When I had my own place I would smoke in my apartment, but not often.
In 2000 I quit when I was pregnant. But, picked it up again years later.
I have stopped and started a LOT of times. However, I have not let anyone smoke in my house because of my children. I would feel like I was not protecting them like a parent should, just like keeping them away from soda and too much sugar, etc.
I have, just recently, started up again. Last year was the worse year of my life, and I held out, but last month I picked up again.
I am honestly not a chain smoker. I do not smoke around my kids, or in front of my kids, or in the car, etc. Like today, I had a smoke this a.m. outside, before my kids woke up, and I have not had one since.
Alright, I always have to turn a simple question into a whole column!!!
No, I do not or would not let anyone smoke in my house, even if they would ask. The only exception I would make is for my mother-in-law, but she does not smoke around kids either, so she has never asked.
Lifelong non smoker and asthmatic. No way in hell are people smoking in my house, but anyone who is likely to be in my house knows me well enough to know that. And the only person I know who smokes a lot is my FIL, but he wouldn’t do it in our house and he lives thousands of miles away anyway. If random guests want to smoke, they can go out on the deck.
No way.
Even when I smoked, it was outside. I still keep a covered butt bucket out there for smokers though. Keeps them contained without having to bring them back in for disposal.
It’s incongruous to me that some people justify smoking because there’s something (they think) worse.
All addictions negatively impact people.
I’m certainly not justifying smoking by saying drink or drugs are worse, or any other thing is worse; merely pointing out that the smell of beer affects me worse than smoke does a non-smoker but I roll with it because other people have their superior rights — and if they want to drink or shoot up that’s up to them.
In any case, I would never ever justify smoking, any more than I would justify reading or justify gun-owning or justify a glorious sunset, because smoking is so transcendent a pleasure it needs no justification and it is pointless to justify anything. Proceed at your own risk, but moralism is always the worst of any two vices.
Needless to say: no-one should ever smoke in someone’s house if they are not allowed to, or anywhere else. Fortunately though I coincidentally long made the decision from safety grounds never to go anywhere where smoking is dangerous.
I used to be a janitor and you really could tell the office of a smoker vs a non-smoker. The dust, smell, and eventually yellow on the windows to be cleaned off.
How do smokers afford it anymore? Cigs are what $6 a pack now?
Some companies have gone so far as to not allow smoking anywhere on their property even in the parking lot so for an employee to smoke they have to go completely off site.
Which then has created a clique issue where the smokers will bond together.
Nobody smokes in the house here. My daughters and I don’t smoke at all and the roommate (home owner) smokes on the back patio and prefers that everyone else do the same.
I’m not super fond of the smell of beer either, and of course the social impact of alcohol is far worse than than of tobacco… but it’s not a remotely comparable thing when we’re talking about smell. Beer doesn’t release a huge amount of particulate into the air. If someone sits in a room a drinks some beer and then leaves, without minutes you’ll never know they were there unless they spill the beer all over the place - but the smell of smoking persists for a long time.
Heh, much more than that, depending on where you live. I believe the going rate is $10 a pack in NY. Here it’s $8-9, depending on the brand. A lot of people have switched to off brands because they’re a dollar or two lower. I have a friend who drives to a neighboring state every month to buy cartons not only for herself but also for a few coworkers. The neighboring state has no cigarette tax, so there’s a good chunk of change right there.
My employer doesn’t allow it within X feet of the doors, so smokers either have to go to the parking lot or sit in their cars.
That’s been true since time immemorial unless the company has a staggered schedule and only lets a few people out on break at a time.