Speaking of smokers - how do you deal with a SO who smokes, but you don't?

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PatboyX

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i should also mention that i make it a point to explain to my smoker girlfriend that i am a better person than her, that she deserves nothing but painful, slow, growing death inside of her and that she is lucky to even be in the same room with me because kissing her is like kissing an ashtray (or some other cliche)...normally, i would never date one partially because i dont respect people who dont respect their own bodies...but mostly because smokers are notoriously low on tolerance toward self-righteous a-holes who think that they have any right to give two hot shts about what they do with themselves privately. also: being a smoker doesnt make you more fun...but being around one of the aforementioned masturbatory curmudgeons is never fun.
 

TeeJay1952

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I have been married 38 years to "The Biggest Smoker in the World". I would never presume to tell anyone else what to do. I smoked for 2 decades and then quit. I got ALL I wanted. No one could tell me what to do. Now I don't want to tell any one else what to do.
 

Damn Dirty Ape

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Originally posted by: hjo3
I'm a non-smoker, but it really doesn't bother me... I actually like the smell. I don't think I'd have a problem living with a smoker, aside from the ethical problem inherent in letting someone you love drastically increase their odds of getting cancer right in front of you every day.

or you getting it from being around it too.. can't forget that.

Never would date someone who smokes. yak, ugh. ptooey.

that being said, you'll never receive a FS/FT item from me that smells like azz.
 

Ausm

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I never smoked by my Ex and as long as I gave her the bone with regularity she was perfectly happy.


Ausm
 

Ns1

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I said I would never date anybody who smoked, but I currently am anyway. IF you like/care about the person enough you can overlook such things.
 

Kelemvor

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I would never date much less marry a smoker. Soon as I see someone with a cigarette, it's like they don't exist and I move on to the next one.

And as for caring... If they like/care about you (or themselves for that matter) enough, they would quit.
 

D1gger

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When I first started dating my wife she was a smoker. After a few weeks, I told her it was a deal breaker if she continued smoking because I didn't like kissing an ashtray. She quit and apart from a couple of smokes over the years she hasn't smoked in over 20 years.
 

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I was with a smoker for over a year and a half. Didn't bother me, except if we had lived together I wouldn't allow it in the house.
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: Ryan
I guess this is directed at people who started dating and moved in with a SO who smoked. Did you let them smoke in the house? Does it bother you?
i couldn't date a smoker :(

i could love them from afar and be their best friend, but i couldn't live with one.

 

RollWave

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Originally posted by: natep
I'm dating a girl who smokes, it didn't bother me at first, but now she likes smoking Djarum Blacks. Those things smell so much worse than a regular cig.


Those things make your lungs bleed. Cloves are 100 times worse than cigs.
 

Megadeth

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I always said I would never date a smoker either but I fell in love and am now engaged... She has been cutting back more and more all the time... She never once smoked around me and since I'm around all the time she only smokes on her way to or from work usually. Since she met me she has gone from 10 per day to 1 per day. Some good progress. She has promised to have stopped all together by our wedding date.