You can’t. Non-smoking sections are totally usesless unless the two sections are physically separated with each section having its own ventilation system to the outside.
I suggest that the next time she says something like that that’s easily overheard, you should turn to a friend and say: “Here comes that passive-agressive bitch again.” and then turn back to her and say: “Oh, I’m sorry. Did you accidentally overhear a private conversation in which we discussed your behavior? I apologize sincerely, and will try to keep such thoughts to myself from now on.”
You won’t be more mature, but it’ll feel so good.
I get really tired of people like the girl in the OP. I tend to be one of the more polite smokers, and do a lot of things to accomodate the whining of non-smokers.
She, however, has taken it too far.
So let me state a thing or two:
I have not lost my sense of smell at all, and use it quite frequently at jobs, since I’m a part time chef.
I know how sharp smelling and offensive it can be. I quit for two years, and then started again (yes, I know it’s not the crowning achievement of my 25 year career on this planet so far.) During the time I quit, smoke offended me about 50% of the time. The rest of the time, if you must know, it took the form of a scantily clad succubus who tickled my chin and beckoned to me.
My cat just stepped on the keyboard (obviously in a blind rage at my post, as he is a non-smoker) so if any of the above is garbled, you know who to blame!
Now, all that being said: As stated before about being polite, I pick up my butts after putting them out and deposit them in the nearest recepticle.
If I’m sitting remotely close to a non-smoking section and someone states the smoke is bothering them, I put it out.
If I come home from a night in a smokey bar, I hang my coat outside to air out so my roommates do not have to smell it.
Most of these people can be mildly offensive and bitchy in their adressing of my smoking. I, however, suck it up, as I know I have chosen an offensive habit, and like picking my nose and itching, try to do it away from people who do not approve.
But this OP girl of yours…
She reminds me of the assholes at some of the bars I’ve worked at who prance into the deepest bowls of the smoking section and start to bitch about how smokey it is. Never mind that there is nothing different about the smoking section, except the obvious nefarious cloud of horrible creeping cancerous stench. Both sides had a fireplace, were usually equally busy and had the same service options availabe. But never mind that the pristine non-smoking section is about 50 yards from where they are, they seem to want to dive headfirst into a viper pit and then cry and bitch about the fact that they got bit.
whew! Now that my non-smoking rage is de-fused:
Most of the non-smokers I know are not boot-strappin nazis ready to drive a panzer over your head because you sparked up in the next county, but fer chrissakes, some of them need to lighten up! I’m already not allowed in bus stop shelters or within a 100 yards of any schools while smoking. We know it’s annoying, we know it’s bad for us.
Would it make you happier if we sat in the back of the bus?
That’s interesting. I have never heard a non-smoker complain about a person smoking in a smoking section. I’m wondering where you people live that this is occurring so often.
yes she is a bitch, i would feel miserable being around a person like her.
BUT
smoking is retarded, thats just the way it is, sorry. of course unless you are smoking inside a building with no-smoking signs i won’t say anything to you. there cannot be anything objectionable about smoking outside, at least as long as we’re not driving emission-free cars, else it would be hypocritical.
i would not date a smoker unless there was something really special about her, and even then i would try to get her to quit.