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This isn't to paint all smokers with the same brush. If you want to smoke, that's your decision, all well and good. Differing opinions and all that.
But when I'm standing under an enclosed bus stop, shivering from the cold and the wet, and you walk underneath and stand next to me, then light up so the secondhand smoke goes right in my face? Oh, we have a problem now! Bonus points because I had to pointedly stare at you, then the lit cigarette, then the "No Smoking" sign that was exactly 2.5 inches above our heads. Well done, you!! Whining that it's cold and windy and wet outside is not a good reason to break the law, and blow smoke in my face!
Like I said, smoking is your choice, whatever. But do not try to claim exceptions to any rules or laws for it. I follow the laws even when I disagree with them because they're the laws. I look both ways, I don't jaywalk, I pay my taxes, and if the sign says no smoking/eating/drinking/flash photography, I obey it! Try it sometime!!
No, I'm not out to get you or lecture you or tell you you're going to kill yourself, it's not my place. But again, when there's a sign mere inches above your head telling you NOT to do something, and you do it anyway, don't be TOO amazed when I snap a picture with my cell phone to show the nice campus police that are just a few blocks away. Oh, hey, look, they even list WHICH law you're breaking on the sign, and the penalties!
I hate people...
But when I'm standing under an enclosed bus stop, shivering from the cold and the wet, and you walk underneath and stand next to me, then light up so the secondhand smoke goes right in my face? Oh, we have a problem now! Bonus points because I had to pointedly stare at you, then the lit cigarette, then the "No Smoking" sign that was exactly 2.5 inches above our heads. Well done, you!! Whining that it's cold and windy and wet outside is not a good reason to break the law, and blow smoke in my face!
Like I said, smoking is your choice, whatever. But do not try to claim exceptions to any rules or laws for it. I follow the laws even when I disagree with them because they're the laws. I look both ways, I don't jaywalk, I pay my taxes, and if the sign says no smoking/eating/drinking/flash photography, I obey it! Try it sometime!!
No, I'm not out to get you or lecture you or tell you you're going to kill yourself, it's not my place. But again, when there's a sign mere inches above your head telling you NOT to do something, and you do it anyway, don't be TOO amazed when I snap a picture with my cell phone to show the nice campus police that are just a few blocks away. Oh, hey, look, they even list WHICH law you're breaking on the sign, and the penalties!
I hate people...
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