stop smoking next to me

GreenTeaDisease

catefrances wrote:

im not concerned about getting cancer or any other disease from passive smoking. what is my concern is that cigarette smoke makes me physically ill. it makes me nauseous and gives me an almighty headache. if you want me to puke on you, sure be my guest light up next to me.

yeah I think for an adult secondhand smoke is a fairly small risk, unless maybe if you're around it ALL the time. But I can't stand the way being a smoky place makes me feel. yick. ugh, and then the next morning when you shower and all the stink comes out of your hair and you realize that your clothes are making the whole house smell...nasty.

sweetpotato

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!!!!!!!!!!!

i couldn't possibly agree with you MORE! as a lifelong non-smoker who grew up with two smoking parents, i have spent my entire life fighting for my right to breathe clean air. and when anyone starts in with that shit about their right to smoke", i have always shut them the fuck up with, "my body was made for breathing, as was yours. neither of our bodies were made for smoking." their CHOICE to smoke is one-upped by my RIGHT to breathe.

wayne dyer said recently something i've always found amusing as well, that a "non-smoking" section in a restaurant makes as much sense as a peeing section in a pool.

GreenTeaDisease

sweetpotato wrote:

i couldn't possibly agree with you MORE! as a lifelong non-smoker who grew up with two smoking parents, i have spent my entire life fighting for my right to breathe clean air. and when anyone starts in with that shit about their right to smoke", i have always shut them the fuck up with, "my body was made for breathing, as was yours. neither of our bodies were made for smoking." their CHOICE to smoke is one-upped by my RIGHT to breathe.

wayne dyer said recently something i've always found amusing as well, that a "non-smoking" section in a restaurant makes as much sense as a peeing section in a pool.

basically smoking is an externality. Someone is making the choice to smoke, but imposing costs on others who had no part in the decision. it is absolutely no different than what is commonly thought of as pollution. that's why I think it shouldn't be allowed in public places. If people want to smoke that's fine with me, but once you impose costs on others that you have no intention of paying for, I have no sympathy.

in_hiding79

WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER..? I mean, seriously!! Living to be 80 or 90 sounds positively awful!! :eek: