Probably requiring a humpectomy…wonder if they can get hump implants…
Oh! The OP! I forgot…
Hmmm - I’ve nothing to add to this discussion, I’m afraid. A smoker who is outside, though, and not in a designated non smoking area, is not being rude by smoking. If I’m walking down the street and encounter someone who is medically sensitive - how do I know? I’m not out to hurt anybody, but some things I just can’t see worrying about.
So, if you’re outside a CANCER TREATMENT CENTRE and a CANCER PATIENT is trying to enter the building WITH OXYGEN ya don’t think it might be nice to get out of the way a few feet so they don’t have to inhale yer discarded, exhaled, skank-ass, 2nd hand smoke nastyness?
So, if you’re outside a CANCER TREATMENT CENTRE and a CANCER PATIENT is trying to enter the building WITH OXYGEN ya don’t think it might be nice to get out of the way a few feet so they don’t have to inhale yer discarded, exhaled, skank-ass, 2nd hand smoke nastyness?
Ooops.
<Please insert appropriate blushing smilie here>
I think the oxygen tank would give me the appropriate clue. I was talking about someone with no external indications walking down the sidewalk.
Now, would that be a saline or a silicone hump implant…
Geez Alice,
I don’t think anyone would argue that it is wrong for someone to smoke IN THE DOORWAY OF A CANCER TREATMENT CENTER! What some people are trying to say and that I agree with, is that many non-smokers act like smokers are outside butchering fluffy the dog or something. Smokers smoke. It is legal. Smokers are perfectly aware that it is a nasty and harmful habit. Do you think we CHOOSE to be addicted? I think it is people with attitudes like yours who show no respect for smokers at people and feel that it is perfectly within your rights to throw around insults and speak in a condecending and outright nasty tone that make some smokers not really give a fuck.
I am an EXTREMEMLY considerate smoker. If I am on a park bench and someone is on the other end of the bench, I will not light up unless I see them light up as well as to not blow smoke around them. If i’m at an outdoor restaurant with ashtrays on every table I still won’t light up because there are other people around. But people that speak like you do, who are desrespectful to me just because I happen to have an addiction I haven’t been able to kick yet, make me want to blow smoke right, directly into your upturned nose.
Well, yes. You chose to start smoking. I don’t believe that you were completely unaware that smoking is bad for you, and yes, addictive. If it weren’t addictive, it wouldn’t be so hard for so many people to quit, now would it? Even if you were pretty young when you first started smoking, surely you had some grasp of that concept.
But, that being said, as long as smokers are considerate, I have no problem with them. We all have our vices. As long as they don’t play the “victim” card (“I didn’t know it was bad when I started!” “I didn’t choose this!”). Because, you know, that’s bullshit. Pure and simple bullshit.
Enjoy your cigarettes, my best wishes in quitting (if indeed you wish to quit).
What, no-one told you that smoking was addictive? Bummer that must have been a real shock for you, and right after you coming out of that cave that you’ve be living in the last 50 years too.
I’m sick of smokers whining about people being inconsiderate and rude to them, and how tough it is being addicted to something. Smoking is not a disease. It is not an affliction you can’t do anything about. It’s a hobby. Despite all the warnings you chose to take it up. It’s something you do because you get pathetic little kicks out of it. You do it cause it makes you feel good, well, at first.
But if you want a hobby that makes you stink, ruins your health and eventually kills you, that’s your business. But don’t come over all hurt if people get annoyed when your selfish hobby starts infringing on their life. If I had a hobby that you still stunk of an hour after being in my company would you be happy about it?
And yes, you do stink. What, you think people can’t smell it? I’m afraid you’ve been relying on your much depreciated sense of smell. People who don’t spend their day with mouldering ashes under their nose can smell you coming a mile off. Again; your hobby, your choice. You stink.
I meant “smouldering ashes”, of course. :rolleyes:
First: To the OP. Inconsiderate addicts suck.
and B: I think we can (most of us agree) that inconsiderate anyones do. Whether they are smokers or not. So none a’y’all should be getting your knickers in a twist just because the inconsiderate ones are being ranted on.
and Lastly: It must be difficult to remember or realize that smoke really is nasty after you’ve gotten used to it. I remember a tour I took of a waste treatement plant that smelled like feces that had been sitting in the sun for a LONG time. The people working there had gotten so used to it that they didn’t even smell it anymore. So remember that non-smokers haven’t gotten used to the stench.
and OTOH: Yo Michael. Fomer Cowell College fighting Banana Slug here. Hope you’re having a good time. 
And yet everyday, as I enter my workplace, I am forced to wade through about 15 smokers, blocking the doorway, despice the fact that there’s a smoking shelter a mere 10 meters away. Interesting.
So, if I have a bad attitude, I think I’ve earned it.
Galen - salene of course - silicon can be harmful…
I live in North Carolina’s Tobacco Country. If I held my breath every time I smell cigarette smoke I’d be dead in ten minutes.
You say you get headaches from smelling strong perfumes. Alrighty then, imagine getting that reaction from smelling cigarettes. I live on a non-smoking floor in a dorm, however the smoking terrace is right under my window. It’s ninety degrees out here so I can’t close my window if I want to stay solid. Just a whiff of that stuff makes my sinuses clog up. This triggers a severe sinus headache. Ever been around someone with a sinus headache? Did you come out of that situation alive with all your parts in working order? You’re lucky. Fortunately I’m only exposed to the stuff for about half an hour each night and I can run to the other side of my room or there’d be some unsolved squirt-gun shootings. (Said squirt-gun would not be loaded with water but rather the sweet, sweet liquid known as sufuric acid.)
Personally, I hate it when people stand right outside the main entrance to a building and smoke. Where my father works they have to stand by the back entrance where nobody comes in. I rejoice every time I see a main entrance ashtray knocked over and shattered. I like to think it was people like me who are sick of having to hold our breath and running into a building to avoid allergy attacks because people are unfamiliar with air circulation patterns.
Alice,
I meant everyone in this thread.
Futile,
I rest my case. I’m not pretending I didn’t know it was bad when I started. I was a teenager and stupid and that’s pretty much WHY I started. I blame it on no one but myself. But does that still give you a right to speak to me so disrespectfuly and condesendingly? Do you ever drink? That’s bad. Would you like for me to say things like “you’re stupid for drinking. Your breath stinks. You are so dumb for CHOOSING to engage in such a destructive habit.” No? I agree. If you were trying to pour it down my throat I would come at you harsly about that particular act. Not about the fact that you drink when it’s not good for you. That’s not my place. Because it’s not my place to speak to you like that. That’s the point i’m trying to make. If someone is harming you, then politly ask them not to. If they don’t agree, then get nasty about what they are doing at that moment. But don’t come at me like i’m your child that you’re lecturing. It’s not your place nor your right. I’m not playing victim, contrary to what people may think, i’m just asking to be treated with the same respect you would pay to an adult non-smoker. It’s a nasty habit yes, but i’m sure you have some habits you’re not fond of either, do I come at you ranting and raving about them?
Last time I checked, someone’s consumption of an alcoholic beverage did not inflict that same alcoholic beverage into a bystander’s system.
BTW, what’s the respect being shown by those who are consuming their cigarettes in a prohibited area, lezlers?
This kind of existence sucks. I’m very allergic to perfumes, colognes, smelly lotions, and cigarette smoke. Bath and Body Works is the bane of my existence. My students ALWAYS step out into the hall if they want to put on lotion or something else that will be smelly. One of my students stopped wearing cologne to school because it was bothering my allergies, and another boy yelled at his friend who sprayed cologne in my room (the other boy didn’t know of my allergies). It’s very sweet of them, but I can’t expect the whole world to be so sensitive. When I smell someone around me who I know is going to make me sick, I do hold my breath until they’ve passed or until I can get away. I do it discreetly and quietly, and I don’t say anything to them. I must say, however, that I do get put out with inconsiderate smokers. There’s a reason buildings are non-smoking areas. I’ve even had to ask my mom to stop smoking around me, which sucks since it’s her house…but she loves me, so she steps outside.
Er, cos this is the Pit, rants, for the use of?
My drink doesn’t enter your body. Unless I’m being particularly careless or generous. And you don’t stink of it an hour later.
If someone punches you in the face do you politely ask them to stop? Smokers know all about tobacco smoke, they shouldn’t need it pointed out. But apparently they do.
No need to take it so personally lezlers, my comments weren’t aimed at you specifically. They were addressed to smokers in general.
I certainly do have nasty habits, and the minute they start laying layers of stink on you, or impacting on your health, you have every right to come ranting at me. No dual standards here.
If it’s a nasty habit for you, why is it somehow less nasty for the people around you who didn’t make the stupid decision to get addicted in the first place?
Monty,
You’re missing the entire POINT of my post. I’m not denying that it is rude to be an inconsiderate smoker. That’s why i’m not. I don’t smoke in public places. Unless there is no one within 20 feet of me. Period. I’m talking about people such as futile that feel it is their right to lecture me like a fuckin’ child because I SMOKE. Even if it is not around HIM. That, in my opinion is not cool.
Futile,
No, I don’t need it pointed out. What makes you think I do? You think I don’t see the t.v. commercials every 5 minutes? You think I don’t see the labels on the packages? You think the minute you start insulting me, THAT’S what’s gonna make me quit? How self-important of you. And you say it’s directed at smokers in general, not me. Um, i’m a smoker. How is it then not directed at me?
Cervaise,
Sigh see my comments towards Monty. You seem to have completely missed my point as well.
You are mistaking my concerns. I don’t care what’s going to make you quit. Just don’t whine about or do it around me.
Um, you did notice the word “specifically” back there? I’m trying to make a point here (albeit in a rant) and you’re trying to turn it into a insult directed at you in particular. You go to great lengths to distance yourself from inconsiderate smokers, yet any criticism of your insidious habit and smokers you take personally to heart. The only comment I addressed to you specifically was regarding your ridiculous plea that ‘you didn’t ask to be addicted’.
It sounds like you have more of a problem about your smoking than I do.