Smoking Rant

[bex1218]

I am a smoker. I actually enjoy it, minus the part where it could potentially kill me. Oh well, gotta die somehow. There are a couple of things I hate:

The Naggers
I don't mind so much of people looking out for my health. Thats fine. But when they keep coming at me like I'm gonna change my mind and go "OMG, I did not realize this is gonna kill me. Thanks for saving my life." I try to tell those people to mind their own business. You don't know me. You don't own me. Leave me alone. I can't go on a smoke break at work without someone going "You know thats bad for you. My son now has a voice box because of it."

Smoking Around Children
I try to stay a good distance away from kids. They don't ask for second hand smoking. I espcially don't smoke around newborns. I don't like it when I see people smoking around their kids. But its not my place to tell them what to do. I just want to vent that out. I actually felt bad at a laundry mat when i didn't know there were kids or a newborn child around till I was half way through the cigarette.

Smoking/Being Around Smokers While Pregnant
One of my ex friends, who doesn't smoke, was around smokers in a house. Her child was born with a bunch of health problems. One of the causes was that reason. I'm shocked another person I knew was smoking while pregnant of how the kid was ok (that I know of). Thats not the reason I stopped talking to them, but still. I know, their body. Their kid. Still aggravates me.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm a non-smoker, but I agree with you on all three points.

Well, except that once a person gets pregnant and chooses to bear the kid, it's not just their body any longer. And while I don't support a full ban on doing potentially damaging things while pregnant or while around women who are pregnant, people really need to be more thoughtful about how their choices affect others, particularly those who don't get a say in whether they're affected.

^-.-^

[Peppergirl]

Great topic, Bex. I suspect it will get lots of replies, as (if memory serves) there are a handful of posters here that think all smokers are inconsiderate, nasty and basically evil-incarnate.

Should be interesting!

[Aethian]

What aggravates me is when I head to my favorite place to play BJ, I'll sit at a favorite No Smoking table and people will stand behind us and smoke. I asked the dealer if he could do anything and he shrugged his shoulders saying that because they weren't sitting at the table he couldn't make them stop. But really, one of the guys did ask and just got attitude back. I wish we had stopped playing then since the smoker was just a watcher.

I understand two tables down is a smoking table, hell the one next to us that night was a smoking table. But one of the smokers over there waited for a chair to be open away from our table saying it wasn't fair to us non-smokers to get his cigar smoke in our hair.

I still came out with smoky hair that one of my coworkers commented on and that was after my morning shower. I now make sure I have lemon juice available after I go so I can soak my hair in that and then take a shower.

[Peppergirl]

What aggravates me is when I head to my favorite place to play BJ, I'll sit at a favorite No Smoking table and people will stand behind us and smoke. I asked the dealer if he could do anything and he shrugged his shoulders saying that because they weren't sitting at the table he couldn't make them stop. But really, one of the guys did ask and just got attitude back. I wish we had stopped playing then since the smoker was just a watcher.

That is total horseshit! So according to the dealer, you can't smoke whilst sitting and playing, but you can stand right there in basically the same spot and NOT play, and it's cool? That's insane!
If true, management there needs a A

[bara]

I smoke, but have no problem not smoking around non-smokers. Even in my own car if I know it bothers them.

I have no problem keeping my bad habit to myself but I agree with OP in that I hate being nagged about it.

[Aethian]

That is total horseshit! They should have been tossed just as if they were sitting there. Ugh. Management there needs a

I agree, I did notice last time I went in they moved the Non-Smoking tables to a different place where it's a bit seperated from most of the other tables. Kinda wish they would use their spare building as a non-smoking gaming floor. For some reason, play just seems to be more pleasant when you don't have someone chain smoking next to you or have to worry about that one hand yelling person who forgets there is something hot in his hands.

[Peppergirl]

I edited my post since then, Aethian, but the same sentiment applies. The audacity of them allowing someone to stand right behind someone and smoke in a non-smoking area is ludicrous.

As for getting hit with a cigarette, it does happen, unfortunately. When I smoked, I came close to it a couple times - just from not paying attention.

[Aethian]

I edited my post since then, Aethian, but the same sentiment applies. The audacity of them allowing someone to stand right behind someone and smoke in a non-smoking area is ludicrous.

As for getting hit with a cigarette, it does happen, unfortunately. When I smoked, I came close to it a couple times - just from not paying attention.

Oops...still your post applies. I think it's just because here the dealer can only deal with the table. Anything else and it's the pit bosses or security that wanders around. I do know that smokers have been chased away from the non-smoking slot sections.

Yea I had a cousin who constantly talked with her hands and a lot of times she only got the point when all of us would take a few steps away. Thankfully she only does those water vapor ones now since her newest has asthma.

[DrFaroohk]

I'm a smoker and try to be a considerate smoker. However, I can't really do anything about the lingering smell on my clothes and hair, and that's the point where I say "get over it". No one ever got cancer because they smelled left over smoke on someone's clothes.

And there's a difference between smelling something and actually ingesting it. Ok, I know that tiny molecules get in your nose and that's how you smell, but really. It's like, smelling smoke vs. actually smoking is like smelling diarrhea vs. eating a whole bowl of shit.

It's not good for you, but it's not the evil monster everyone says it is.

[powerboy]

I am not going to lie, I am a smoker. I try to not smoke around kids, unless it is outside. Seeing as the smoke will go in the air and not directly on them. I do not smoke inside other peoples homes, unless they say so first.

[Mr Hero]

I tend to keep myself away from people smoking. I too once knew someone who didn't smoke in her car whenever I was offered a ride. She never had to go out of her way like that. The way I see it, there are all kinds of aholes and all kinds of wonderful people. Both these groups have people that smoke and people who don't.

[bex1218]

I know when to and not to. And some people are picky about what kind I can smoke around them. Which is strange in itself.

[blas87]

I hate people who meet me, know that I smoke, are fine with it.....then after so long, it's like "I wish you wouldn't smoke", or like my immature boyfriend tells people at work when they ask why we don't sit in the break room at lunch break "Because she NEEDS her cigarettes!"

You don't HAVE to come with me to lunch. You CHOOSE to come with me, sit in my car, and that's that. I will not go without a smoke at lunch. I will not. You can take break with me, or you can stay inside where you really want to be. Don't get an attitude with me about me smoking.

My ex bf would on and off quit smoking for so many weeks/months at a time, and when he wasn't smoking, damn if you smoked or knew anyone who did! You were a monster and he was a God, and if he could quit, ANYONE could quit! That was one of the many reasons I constantly visualized beating the shit out of him in his sleep.

[Gravekeeper]

I'm a smoker and try to be a considerate smoker. However, I can't really do anything about the lingering smell on my clothes and hair, and that's the point where I say "get over it". No one ever got cancer because they smelled left over smoke on someone's clothes.

Actually, it does adhere too and linger on fabric/furniture/carpet/room in general for an obscene length of time. Months, basically. It will continue to become airborne off of said surfaces too. Thats why the smell of cigarettes is so hard to get out of things.

So yes, you technically can get cancer from smelling smoke on someone's clothes if said clothes were sitting around in the room long enough. Hence it doesn't do a lot of good if you just quit smoking right before you have kids for example. Not unless you move anyway.

As for nagging a smoker, general nagging okay fine. But if someone that actually cares about you is nagging, they're nagging because you're killing yourself in front of them. So maybe cut them some slack? >.>