chris2008
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Me:never ever
DH: party late night smoker, maybe 5 cigs/year.
DH: party late night smoker, maybe 5 cigs/year.
I can't imagine why anyone would engage in a habit which only harms the user and everyone around the user and costs the user lots of money.
Good postAddiction is incredibly powerful. I quit back in the early 80s. Every bone in my body hurt. I ate so many carrots I turned orange. I dreamed of accidentally starting to smoke for years afterwords.
People start young when they felt they were invincible. People don't start smoking when they are 30. I also jumped off cliffs into the local swimming hole, drove 70 miles an hour down rutted dirt roads, and dropped acid. Some of us, especially when young, have poor impulse control.
I can't imagine why anyone would engage in a habit which only harms the user and everyone around the user and costs the user lots of money.
I don´t know if this is too personal a question. But I am curious, because we, in Spain, think that smoking is something of the past there in the USA. Reports from California or New York lead us Spaniards to believe that smoking is for you something akin to a crime/rude behaviour.
Addiction is incredibly powerful. I quit back in the early 80s. Every bone in my body hurt. I ate so many carrots I turned orange. I dreamed of accidentally starting to smoke for years afterwords.
People start young when they felt they were invincible. People don't start smoking when they are 30. I also jumped off cliffs into the local swimming hole, drove 70 miles an hour down rutted dirt roads, and dropped acid. Some of us, especially when young, have poor impulse control.
Addiction is incredibly powerful. I quit back in the early 80s. Every bone in my body hurt. I ate so many carrots I turned orange. I dreamed of accidentally starting to smoke for years afterwords.
People start young when they felt they were invincible. People don't start smoking when they are 30. I also jumped off cliffs into the local swimming hole, drove 70 miles an hour down rutted dirt roads, and dropped acid. Some of us, especially when young, have poor impulse control.
I think being miltantly anti-smoker, particularly when you get in people's faces marks you as a bit too arrogant. Get real, smokers pose a very very small risk to you, smaller than almost anyone driving down a road you are on.
Anyway, as a matter of personal survival I avoid confronting people. If you live long enough, plenty of people will take the initiative and confront you on whatever trespasses they have decided that you are making against them.
I don't smoke and never have, but I don't consider it to be a moral issue at all. Many very nice, well educated people smoke. Like Martha said, many started along time ago and have not been able to quit. Barack Obama smokes, and which of you is cooler than he? Vicente smokes, and what male on this board has a more pleasant persoanlity than he? Certainly not I and I am a nonsmoker.
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. . . and sloppily "sneeze" in their direction as they pass. "Excuse me! These allergies . . . ". I don't like it either when a group walks 3 or 4 abreast and I have to clear aside for them to pass on the sidewalk- but I feel that the discrete thing to do is to realize that there isn't much courtesy around, and one really doesn't ever know who he is dealing with, so be cool ha.
The elevator was packed and one person came on with a lit cig.. Turns out there was a cop in plain clothes on the elevator and asked the man to put out his cig.. He refused and the cop ID himself and the man still refused. Turns out he was an attorney with his client.
Barack Obama smokes, and which of you is cooler than he? Vicente smokes, and what male on this board has a more pleasant persoanlity than he? Certainly not I and I am a nonsmoker.
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There are lots of exceptions but mostly smokers are from the lower socioeconomic ranks/blue collar/low class.
I think being miltantly anti-smoker, particularly when you get in people's faces marks you as a bit too arrogant. Get real, smokers pose a very very small risk to you, smaller than almost anyone driving down a road you are on.
Anyway, as a matter of personal survival I avoid confronting people. If you live long enough, plenty of people will take the initiative and confront you on whatever trespasses they have decided that you are making against them.
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But as I said, I figure a small exposure to illegal smoking is less danger to me than getting vocal about it. I don't like it either when a group walks 3 or 4 abreast and I have to clear aside for them to pass on the sidewalk- but I feel that the discrete thing to do is to realize that there isn't much courtesy around, and one really doesn't ever know who he is dealing with, [I]so be cool ha[/I].
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I hope eviction will not be an issue. Probably you will be fine. A lunatic loudly went off on a guy in my building about some infraction that he was doing, but he was told to shut down (he was operating a bike repair from his garage) and she was warned to watch her language and aggro tendencies or she would be evicted.Neighbor was screaming that she can't control her leashed dog, is afraid she will lunge at a cat and kill it, "don't sue me if it happens." I could get an eviction notice over this and somehow it strikes me funny this morning.
Being cool will be a challenge today, we're into another heat wave without A/C.
And I would describe arrogant, militant smokers as those who smoke (or carry lit cigs) in areas they know they should not be smoking, such as elevators, movie theaters, trains, near gas pumps, and restaurants. But when a non-smoker complains about these rude, inconsiderate, and illegal acts, they are the ones portrayed as the arrogant, nasty people, not the ones who actually caused the problems - the smokers themselves. If the smokers would stop lighting up where they are not supposed to, we non-smokers would not have anything to complain about.
In one of my elevator confrontations back in the 1980s, I held an elevator door open as I politely asked a man with a lit cig to please put it out or leave the elevator. He did neither and I had 8 other people in the elevator angry at ME, not the smoker who was causing the problem. Strangely, everyone else chose to leave the elevator instead of joining me to get the real offender - the smoker - to either put out the cig or leave the elevator so I would let the door close. So who was the arrogant one? Not me!