Do smokers not realize how bad they smell?

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olds

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Another thing I have noticed besides the stink: smokers are generally not as intelligent as non smokers.

I used to think that smoking kills brain cells but I now believe that they just weren't intelligent in the first place. I mean why else would they engage in a habit that is disgusting and will end in an early death?

My first wife smoked. When we met, she wanted to go out but I wouldn't date a smoker. She quit, we went out, got married and divorced.
After the divorce she started smoking again. She asked me why I was so dead set against it. I told her I didn't want to spend my life with someone with so little regard for themselves that they would do that to themselves. I also explained that I didn't want to wipe her ass when she was dying from cancer.
She thought about it for a second and asked me why I had never explained it like that before? I thought I had.

She died two years ago at age 54 from lung cancer.
 

SunnyD

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Smokers that smell goooooooood:

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Oyeve

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If they cared, they wouldn't smoke, but they don't care so they smoke because they are assholes.

If that was too long to follow, let me summarize: Smokers are assholes.

Fuck you. I smoke. You bitches deal with it. I couldn't give a rats ass if the smell bothers you. Hell, I live in NYC and if any one bitches about it I tell them to GTFO of the city and move to the country, come back in a year and smell all the shitty smells from the cars and trucks and tell me what smells worse. City dwellers are accustomed to the pollution from autos but god forbid they smell a cigarette, they get all douchy and faux-cough. Hipster assholes.
 

SheHateMe

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Right? The best part is when you bring it to their attention, I have put the chunky shit in a zip lock to show them in the past, they just kinda look at you and shrug their shoulders or have this dumbfounded look on their face. Really?

haha. But, this lady admitted to smoking and working from home at the same time.

And the kicker is...its not her laptop...so why the hell would you be smoking and eating while using it? We have had to retire some laptops because they were so abused.

We had to remove the keyboard from the laptop to clean the sticky stuff off the keys...who knows what it was..probably BBQ sauce or melted globs of her lungs. Who knows.
 

IronWing

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Fuck you. I smoke. You bitches deal with it. I couldn't give a rats ass if the smell bothers you. Hell, I live in NYC and if any one bitches about it I tell them to GTFO of the city and move to the country, come back in a year and smell all the shitty smells from the cars and trucks and tell me what smells worse. City dwellers are accustomed to the pollution from autos but god forbid they smell a cigarette, they get all douchy and faux-cough. Hipster assholes.

I rest my case. Smokers are assholes.
 

olds

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We had to remove the keyboard from the laptop to clean the sticky stuff off the keys...who knows what it was..probably BBQ sauce or melted globs of her lungs. Who knows.
That's not what it was.
D:
 

Insomniator

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Smokers smell like **** and its pathetic seeing it.

Women at my work LOAD up on the perfume thinking it covers the smell, but really just smell like fruity smoke/ass and stink up the elevator, office etc.

disgusting
 

RelaxTheMind

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last cig (so far) was on jan 10 of this year after 17 years of smoking a pack a day. yes. i didnt notice that i just smelled like an ashtray with a faint hint of cologne. unfortunately my car still smells like ass.
 

SheHateMe

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Fuck you. I smoke. You bitches deal with it. I couldn't give a rats ass if the smell bothers you. Hell, I live in NYC and if any one bitches about it I tell them to GTFO of the city and move to the country, come back in a year and smell all the shitty smells from the cars and trucks and tell me what smells worse. City dwellers are accustomed to the pollution from autos but god forbid they smell a cigarette, they get all douchy and faux-cough. Hipster assholes.

Excuse you sir, we don't want to inhale second hand smoke from you. Nor do we want to smell like an ash tray.
 

JM Aggie08

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Fuck you. I smoke. You bitches deal with it. I couldn't give a rats ass if the smell bothers you. Hell, I live in NYC and if any one bitches about it I tell them to GTFO of the city and move to the country, come back in a year and smell all the shitty smells from the cars and trucks and tell me what smells worse. City dwellers are accustomed to the pollution from autos but god forbid they smell a cigarette, they get all douchy and faux-cough. Hipster assholes.

Hipsters smoke more than anyone else.
 

McLovin

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haha. But, this lady admitted to smoking and working from home at the same time.

And the kicker is...its not her laptop...so why the hell would you be smoking and eating while using it? We have had to retire some laptops because they were so abused.

We had to remove the keyboard from the laptop to clean the sticky stuff off the keys...who knows what it was..probably BBQ sauce or melted globs of her lungs. Who knows.

That's par for the course here at my work.

We issue laptops to our Helicopter Mechanics who use them to reference part #'s when they are working, but when we get them back, they are destroyed and full of shit.

I got this beauty back in January:

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He was even nice enough to include a letter of what he though the issues were.

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Broheim

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if you only smoke outside the smell isn't so bad, I smoke but I can always smell people who smoke inside. I've been told you can't tell i smoke unless I just had a cigarette.

but I really don't care if it bothers people, everybody gets their panties in a bunch over fucking everything these days. I wont deliberately inconvenience you but I sure as hell wont go out of my way to accommodate you either.
 

Midwayman

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Smokers are addicts. Addicts only care about themselves. Screw how their behavior impacts others.
 

SheHateMe

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That's par for the course here at my work.

We issue laptops to our Helicopter Mechanics who use them to reference part #'s when they are working, but when we get them back, they are destroyed and full of shit.

I got this beauty back in January:

My goodness. Did he eat the AC adapter and regurgitate it or something?
 

TwiceOver

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Non-smokers are no more considerate to others than smokers are.

I don't know about that one. If you analyzed a non-smoker's day vs. a smoker's day I'd bet that the smoker is less considerate. The issue is that they just don't care whether their habit affects someone around them. So smoker vs. non-smoker spend the exact same day doing the exact same thing except the smoker tosses a single cigarette butt on the ground once in the day. That makes the smoker less considerate.

Same situation, same day, same everything, the smoker is smoking in their car and the person in the car behind them can smell it's awful nasty odor and contributes to their possibility of getting cancer.

Unless the smoker is in a sealed glass container, 99.9% of the time they are going to be less considerate to those around them.

This coming from a former smoker.

PS, smoking still doesn't alleviate stress no matter how much your brain lies to you and says it does.
 

Sheep221

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Already explained it but I will again for people who keep overlooking.

The people who smell the worst live in it. They smoke all day every day, in bed - on the toilet, everywhere. You would be surprised how many idiots there are that smoke 1-2-3 packs a day and just live in that filth. Drive with their windows UP while chain smoking to work. All of that.
Yes I know, the problem is, smoking in car is the worst thing you can do both for car and both for yourself, the materials in the cars will just so damn stink endlessly if you smoke in the car.
 

Midwayman

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Non-smokers are no more considerate to others than smokers are.

Oh, I'm not saying that non smokers are cut from different cloth or anything. That they're less likely to say please or hold the door or something. They just don't care how their habit negatively impacts other people. They flick butts all over the place. They are on smoke breaks while other are working. etc, etc. Just the nature of addiction. They'll do whatever it takes to get their fix.
 

AMDZen

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Smokers are addicts. Addicts only care about themselves. Screw how their behavior impacts others.

You're wrong, I'm not an addict. I smoke because I enjoy it and I can quit at any time.

Although most smokers are addicts, there are levels. Its not just like black and white like so many people think it is.

Equivalent to alcohol - its not like you either don't drink or you're an alcoholic. I know several people like me who only smoking sometimes, namely when we're all drinking and partying. In fact, the majority of my friends enjoy a smoke now and again, after a joint, bowl, couple shots of alcohol, etc.
 

LookBehindYou

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I always feel bad for the children of smokers. I live next door to people that smoke. They don't even smoke inside their house but when their kids come into our house I can always smell it on them. It's one thing to not give a damn if people say you smell bad, but its another when your kids have that smell too and there is nothing they can do about it.