Unless you’re engaging in very close carnal relations with every smoker near you, this is not true. In fact, in my experience, not even then.
You’re making stuff up. Peoples’ pores do not emit smoke smell. If you can smell smoke smell from peoples’ pores, then please see a doctor; they say the imagined smell of burning rubber is a sign of a tumor - maybe this is a similar thing?
No, I don’t smoke. Yes, I know lots of smokers. I have slept with several, and never once have I detected smoke smell emanating form their pores.
And in my experience, it IS true. I’ve only engaged in carnal relations with one smoker, but I’ve lived with a few of them. And freshly out of the shower, they usually do smell of smoke. They never triggered any reactions by just smelling of smoke…but they do smell of smoke. You might not smell it, but I usually can. And I can usually tell if someone has just had a cigarette when they walk by. And my sense of smell isn’t even that good!
Sure it is. Just like the straightforward claim that the breath of someone who has recently smoked a cigarette can trigger a fit of wheezing from two rooms away, or the claim that cigarette smokers fresh out of the shower are oozing tobacco juice from every pore.
Sure.
Look, part of politeness is not to pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining. The OP had the grace at least to admit that it wasn’t the smoke that bothered her, but the fact that someone was smoking. Likewise the anecdote about the office workers sending themselves into fits because they thought someone was smoking when they weren’t.
Because some of the anti-smoking stuff has little to do with health concerns, either mine or theirs. It is simple busybodying. Some people can’t sleep nights because I don’t particularly give a rat’s ass about their opinions, especially not their hysterical ones.
A polite request that I move down wind is one thing. Whipping yourself into a fit of faked coughing at the sight of a cigar - outdoors - or this bullshit about having a fit of the vapors because you can detect tobacco smoke better than the EPA is quite another.
I don’t know if the OP is reading this, but if you are, just be polite, and explain your reasoning in a nice tone. Even if the person disagrees, they’ll probably respond with politeness.
I imagine it’s because no one is attempting to legislate their right to not bathe away. Also, most people aren’t so rude as to pretend to be literally dying from the smell of a hobo.
It wouldn’t be because no one would bother to politely inquire if the hobo wouldn’t mind not smelling.
Look, I sympathize with your addiction, but I still see no reason to be any more polite to you than to that hypothetical bum.
And I sympathize with your, ahem, delicacy, but I don’t see any reason to be any more accommodating of you than I would of anyone else who treated me with contempt.
Icky faces? It may surprise you to learn that cigarette smoke doesn’t smell like roses - I grimace because it stinks. And that cough? It’s my body actually physically rejecting the foul air. You know, like when anybody who doesn’t have a cold coughs. Is a man who just caught a faceful of chalk dust being rude?
It’s all well and good that you’ve eroded your sensitivity to cigarette smoke, but it is still smoke. I can appreciate that you don’t want to be sworn at for your status as a voluntary walking pollutant, but am I required to suppress my physical reactions in order to aid you in your pretence that you’re not emitting smoke into the air? Talk about feeling entitled…
Except that you posted an example showing how inconsiderate you were:
Hint: just because the owners allow you to smoke doesn’t magically make it not rude to be smoking indoors where non-smokers are. It’s this sort of casual rudeness that’s led to the smoking bans.
Do you think that every time a smoker takes a puff and you in turn gave a puff of an air freshener aerosol in his direction he might get the message.
Would there be any reaction from the smoker?
Which one do you think would move?
On a related tangent, I take my dogs to an off-leash dog park, where—presumably—all the humans there have a canine companion. People smoke like chimneys, then drop their butts on the ground. Dogs, being dogs, will chew and/or eat them. Tobacco is highly poisonous to dogs (people too…), yet they care nothing about how it affects the animals in the park, their own included! Most dog parks are not posted “No Smoking”, but it would seem only logical to refrain in the few minutes they will be there, excersizing their pooch.
This is the situation, right down to the brass tacks. Someone is doing something they are allowed to do in a certain place. Someone else wants them to stop, i.e., wants to curtail something they are doing that is fully within their rights.
You know, I’ve NEVER walked up to a smoker and asked him/her to put out the fire in a smoking section. I’ve done it in a nonsmoking place, but never where it’s a smoking section.
Back before there were smoking sections, I’d sit down in a cafeteria, well away from other people, and have smokers plop down next to me and light up, and I’d point out that I was sitting by my lonesome so that I WASN’T getting a lot of smoke, so would they please either put it out or go elsewhere. I was usually told to move, it was their right to smoke anywhere they wanted to. A couple of them did put it out, though. I nearly fainted each time out of sheer shock.
She is relaying a personal experience. I’ve had the same type of personal experience.
I don’t remember you being there when I’ve experienced this-could you please refresh my memory as to where you were standing in the bathroom?