stop smoking next to me

robowski
robowski Posts: 143
edited April 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm tired of the fools at concerts lighting up next to me. I know this is going to piss people off, but I could care less - my mother in law is dying from terminal lung cancer (she smoked for 40 years) and i have no tolerance for it anymore. After seeing someone suffer in immense pain and then crawl to the bathroom to smoke when she was too weak to walk - I wanna rip every friggin cigarette into a milllion pieces!! Her poor health has ruined my marriage (my wife takes care of her) and destroyed our personal lives (work and then be a caregiver).

I want everyone who smokes to know that they need to get some freakin balls and willpower and quit. I know I am venting some anger here - but if you smoke you will die an early death I guarantee it!!!!!!!!! If you are so stupid to take your own health and others around you for granted - then stay the f*ck away from me. I want no part of your cancer - your stained teeth, your rotten mouth, your diseased cough, or your second hand smoke!

Big Tobacco is just as bad as the oil companies - Greedy pigs! Please don't smoke next to me - because if you do god help you!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    robowski wrote:
    I'm tired of the fools at concerts lighting up next to me. I know this is going to piss people off, but I could care less - my mother in law is dying from terminal lung cancer (she smoked for 40 years) and i have no tolerance for it anymore. After seeing someone suffer in immense pain and then crawl to the bathroom to smoke when she was too weak to walk - I wanna rip every friggin cigarette into a milllion pieces!! Her poor health has ruined my marriage (my wife takes care of her) and destroyed our personal lives (work and then be a caregiver).

    I want everyone who smokes to know that they need to get some freakin balls and willpower and quit. I know I am venting some anger here - but if you smoke you will die an early death I guarantee it!!!!!!!!! If you are so stupid to take your own health and others around you for granted - then stay the f*ck away from me. I want no part of your cancer - your stained teeth, your rotten mouth, your diseased cough, or your second hand smoke!

    Big Tobacco is just as bad as the oil companies - Greedy pigs! Please don't smoke next to me - because if you do god help you!!!!!!!!!!!
    ...
    Sounds like you need a cigarette.
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    It's a diseeeaaase man. have some compassion. That shit can take a hell of a hold on you.

    For my part though, I am not going to smoke again. I decided this the other day though mind, not because of this thread :)
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  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    Sounds like you need a cigarette.

    Good stuff.
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Sounds like you are misdirecting your 'grief and loss' anger.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Yeah smoking is a pretty dumb habit when you think about it. I can't imagine anyone likes it the first time they try it, and you certainly don't form a habit after one cigarette. Therefore there has to be some motivation other than that. I smoked for a few years back in my teens, but it was pretty much because I used to hang out with my older sister and her friends and they all smoked. As soon as I got older I realised it was a total drain on my bank account and it was only going to lead to illness - and who wants to pay all that money to get ill?!
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    robowski wrote:
    I'm tired of the fools at concerts lighting up next to me. I know this is going to piss people off, but I could care less - my mother in law is dying from terminal lung cancer (she smoked for 40 years) and i have no tolerance for it anymore. After seeing someone suffer in immense pain and then crawl to the bathroom to smoke when she was too weak to walk - I wanna rip every friggin cigarette into a milllion pieces!! Her poor health has ruined my marriage (my wife takes care of her) and destroyed our personal lives (work and then be a caregiver).

    I want everyone who smokes to know that they need to get some freakin balls and willpower and quit. I know I am venting some anger here - but if you smoke you will die an early death I guarantee it!!!!!!!!! If you are so stupid to take your own health and others around you for granted - then stay the f*ck away from me. I want no part of your cancer - your stained teeth, your rotten mouth, your diseased cough, or your second hand smoke!

    Big Tobacco is just as bad as the oil companies - Greedy pigs! Please don't smoke next to me - because if you do god help you!!!!!!!!!!!

    You do know that people can smoke at concerts, right? :confused:
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    You do know that people can smoke at concerts, right? :confused:


    Not anymore or (in a thunderous voice) GOD HELP THEM!!!!
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    robowski wrote:
    I'm tired of the fools at concerts lighting up next to me. I know this is going to piss people off, but I could care less - my mother in law is dying from terminal lung cancer (she smoked for 40 years) and i have no tolerance for it anymore. After seeing someone suffer in immense pain and then crawl to the bathroom to smoke when she was too weak to walk - I wanna rip every friggin cigarette into a milllion pieces!! Her poor health has ruined my marriage (my wife takes care of her) and destroyed our personal lives (work and then be a caregiver).

    I want everyone who smokes to know that they need to get some freakin balls and willpower and quit. I know I am venting some anger here - but if you smoke you will die an early death I guarantee it!!!!!!!!! If you are so stupid to take your own health and others around you for granted - then stay the f*ck away from me. I want no part of your cancer - your stained teeth, your rotten mouth, your diseased cough, or your second hand smoke!

    Big Tobacco is just as bad as the oil companies - Greedy pigs! Please don't smoke next to me - because if you do god help you!!!!!!!!!!!
    Amen!!!!! Amen!!!!! Could not have said it better, myself.
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,203
    id its a non smoking venue, youd be right

    but if its a smoking venue, than you need to move from the smoke, because you have no right to tell the others what to do.
  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    eyedclaar wrote:
    Not anymore or (in a thunderous voice) GOD HELP THEM!!!!


    They can't smoke at concerts?? WTF? that sucks for them......but I guess it's all good!! :)
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    They can't smoke at concerts?? WTF? that sucks for them......but I guess it's all good!! :)


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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    They can't smoke at concerts?? WTF? that sucks for them......but I guess it's all good!! :)
    ...
    California is moving towards becoming a non-smoking state. If you feel the need to smoke... please, step outside... into Nevada. Thank you.
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    we are referring to cigarettes here, correct ?


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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,014
    robowski wrote:
    I'm tired of the fools at concerts lighting up next to me. I know this is going to piss people off, but I could care less - my mother in law is dying from terminal lung cancer (she smoked for 40 years) and i have no tolerance for it anymore. After seeing someone suffer in immense pain and then crawl to the bathroom to smoke when she was too weak to walk - I wanna rip every friggin cigarette into a milllion pieces!! Her poor health has ruined my marriage (my wife takes care of her) and destroyed our personal lives (work and then be a caregiver).

    I want everyone who smokes to know that they need to get some freakin balls and willpower and quit. I know I am venting some anger here - but if you smoke you will die an early death I guarantee it!!!!!!!!! If you are so stupid to take your own health and others around you for granted - then stay the f*ck away from me. I want no part of your cancer - your stained teeth, your rotten mouth, your diseased cough, or your second hand smoke!

    Big Tobacco is just as bad as the oil companies - Greedy pigs! Please don't smoke next to me - because if you do god help you!!!!!!!!!!!



    dude, shut up. the person smoking is hurting themselves so much worse. just gut it out for the seven minutes it takes for him/her to smoke it and then walk away knowing you're healthier than they are. second-hand smoke is the most overrated thing in the world. it won't hurt you. don't listen to those gay "Truth" commercials. only first hand smoke will do anything in the long run. and I'm a non-smoker...but if I was ever standing near you at a show, I'd bum a Virginia Slim Menthol off of some chick and blow the smoke all over your American Eagle shirt so it smells like cigarette smoke when you get home and then your mom will have to wash it for ya
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  • Ledbetterman10
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    Bathgate66 wrote:
    we are referring to cigarettes here, correct ?


    :confused:

    yeah the original poster says 'cigarettes' in the first paragraph
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Get_Right wrote:
    id its a non smoking venue, youd be right

    but if its a smoking venue, than you need to move from the smoke, because you have no right to tell the others what to do.

    Is my right not to want to passive smoke not equal to their right to smoke?
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    facepollution wrote:
    Is my right not to want to passive smoke not equal to their right to smoke?
    No.

    Not in a smoking venue.

    Besides man, we don't have this problem in the UK, you're just being pedantic :p
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    No.

    Not in a smoking venue.

    Besides man, we don't have this problem in the UK, you're just being pedantic :p

    Lol! Not really being pedantic, I don't think you can really bang on about people's fundamental rights as human beings on the one hand then dismiss them in the other. I would rather the response be "well it's tough shit, that's just the way it is". I still went to pubs before the smoking ban, that was my choice. But as a human being, it is not fair for one person to inflict their behaviour on another person just because they choose to, and that person has to lump it.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    facepollution wrote:
    Lol! Not really being pedantic, I don't think you can really bang on about people's fundamental rights as human beings on the one hand then dismiss them in the other. I would rather the response be "well it's tough shit, that's just the way it is". I still went to pubs before the smoking ban, that was my choice. But as a human being, it is not fair for one person to inflict their behaviour on another person just because they choose to, and that person has to lump it.
    I used to agree with you. I'm not overly concerned about passive smoking anymore though. I don't have the energy for it. Worrying about lung cancer and heart disease is more likely to cause it I reckon :D

    But seriously, I understand your argument. It's a difficult situation. Fact is, you shouldn't go to a place that allows smoking if you don't want to be subjected to it.
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Fact is, you shouldn't go to a place that allows smoking if you don't want to be subjected to it.

    Well yeah common sense says that, but given the fact that non-smokers way out number smokers, why cater to their anti-social behaviour?

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