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Smokers unite!Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: clamum
Nope.
I'd rather smoke than listen to AvA though... talk about losing respect. :laugh:
This.
Smokers unite!Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Originally posted by: clamum
Nope.
I'd rather smoke than listen to AvA though... talk about losing respect. :laugh:
This.
Yeah that is ridiculous. I don't charge the time I take smoking cigarettes. But I still want to eat lunch so I simply stay an extra 30 minutes or so per day. Yet the non-smokers who love to bitch about smokers supposedly charging time while sitting outside have no problem taking fucking walks and breaks all the time.Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: manowar821
Yes, and not just their smoking, but their mannerisms. All their small ticks, like how they feel entitled to 7+ smoke breaks during the work day because they "need" to smoke.
I smoke... and deduct the time to takes me to do from my alloted lunch/break time. Funny though, the people who whip out theor personal planners and spend 2 hrs a day on the phone
scheduling doctor's apoointments,hair and dental appointments, conferencing with their kid's teacher and/or taking multiple calls from home don't ever seem to say"hey I'll work thru lunch today,I used my lunch time making and receiving personal phone calls while I stuck the smoker with my workload"
Strange thing is, I didn't mind smokers when I was a non-smoker. I thought it smelled horrible and wondered what made it enjoyable but I never grimaced, flinched or clenched my bowels like OP appears to. I agree a lot of smokers light up in places where they really shouldn't but gems like 'Anyone that smokes automatically loses a lot of respect from me' really don't register on my super-calibrated 'things I give a damn about' meter.Originally posted by: clamum
Smokers unite!Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
This.Originally posted by: clamum
Nope.
I'd rather smoke than listen to AvA though... talk about losing respect. :laugh:
Originally posted by: ICRS
Here in Cali it is a violation of state law to smoke 20 feet from a public building door or window. I have considered calling the police on people who violate this law.
Nothing makes me more angry is when it rains, and a building roof protrudes out, you see people standing underneath it to smoke. Problem is they within 20 feet from a window or door of a public building. They should be fined for violating the law. One day I will call the police on these people.
Originally posted by: johnjohn320
I really don't understand how people talk about "being able to smell it from XXX yards away." This thread alone has mentioned being on the third story of a building and noticing people smoking on the ground below. Or I'll be at a restaurant with a friend, and someone across this enormous room from us will light up, and the person I'm with starts wrinkling their nose and acting all disgusted.
Really? I mean, really? I'm not a smoker and never have been, but I think some people just like to bitch. I mean, how sensitive are your noses? Are you really that much of a wimp?
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
If I'm driving and the person in front of me is smoking with their windows down, I can smell it even with my windows up, unless I put the HVAC on recirculate. Fucking disgusting habit.
Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Smokers don't bother me. In fact, its the extremist non-smokers who irritate me. I've seen them get in smoker's faces and call them murderers and say all kinds of crazy shit.
They just passed a smoking ban here which prohibits it, I think, 30 feet from any business (targets businesses as public places are already under a ban, as is campus since its state run). The only reason it did pass is because of the college students wanting it banned at the bars.
The average person I don't think really cares. The whole 1 second that you're exposed to it for many people isn't going to have an adverse impact on your health (your lungs are actually pretty amazing things). I don't like smokers that litter and are assholes (don't ask if its ok, etc) either, but labeling all of them is just stupid.
My mom smoked heavily when I grew up, and smoke does bother me (especially in spring when I get bad allergies now), but I understand I have a choice of being at the place where there's smoke, and I can always ask someone politely if they'd not light up (which seemingly amazingly is very effective in my experience). The other 95% of the time I'm in transition between two places so its not going to bother me for such an incredibly limited amount of time.
Originally posted by: Fritzo
My whole argument against smoking is- you should be able to do whatever you want, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
The problem with smoking is the smoke doesn't stay with you- it travels and is inhaled by everyone around you. Therefore, it's a public action, not a private action.
It's along the same lines as saying "I have every right to hold this piece of plutonium and irradiate myself!" You could do that, but the people around you don't have a choice.
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
I don't like that smokers treat the world like their personal ash tray and will leave butts any where.
