I'm fed up with all those smokers, I don't want to be a second hand to you anymore!?

Question

Smoke in your own homes, if you want to kill yourselves be my guest. And to prove my point, you're messing up the planet too, look around everywhere you go cigarette butts all over the place!

Sure if smoking did not involve exhaling smoke we would have no problem with it, but it does. I have to think about me, and to prove my point its not even considerd littering thowing your cigerette in the street even cops do it, and they are suppose to uphold the law not break it whats up with that?

Answer 1

Here, here. I am totally with you.

To all the idiot smokers who posted a response, let's get one thing straight. Non-smokers could not give a stuff how much you smoke and what you do to shorten your own lives. We know and acknowledge that smoking is not the only deadly vice out there in the community, not least of those, alcohol. But here is where it is different - smoking directly and negatively impacts on the enjoyment of non-smokers in public.

If you choose to smoke at a pub, a bus stop, in a park or wherever you are polluting everything and everyone around you. We can't hide from it. If you walk past me in the street with a smoke in hand, your smoke will affect me. If I am asthmatic or suffer allergies, all the worse. If I go to lunch at the local pub, I walk out smelling like I have just chain-smoked my lunch hour away.

I choose not to smoke and yet I breathe in the fumes from your cigarettes. I become at risk of illness and disease because I am a passive smoker.

So, do me a favour smokers. Light up in your cars and your homes. But leave public areas free for the rest of us to enjoy. And get off your soap boxes, because like it or not your habit affects everyone and everything around you.

By the way, I love the responses were some of you sooked about "what happened to freedom of choice". Good question dimwits - one non-smokers have been asking for years. Why is it ok for smokers to take ours?

Answer 2

If you are in a PRIVATELY owned business shouldn't it be up to the owner to decide whether they allow smoking or not? Just because the door is open to all does not mean that you have the right to occupy that business. Only if the owner allows you to. "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason" ring a bell. IF you don't like going to a business because people smoke there go somewhere else. Vote with your feet. If all the non-smokers quit going somewhere and it cuts into a businesses bottom line I can guarantee you there will be changes made. The problem comes from all of you busy body non-smokers who feel its your right and/or duty to tell everyone how to live there lives because you know best. You don't like how something is, but instead of going to all of the effort to go somewhere else you may like better you complain and force that business to change. I don't smoke, and I don't go to places that are smoky because I don't enjoy it. I sure ain't missing out an anything.

Oh, and I do agree about the butts. Pick up your trash you frigging slobs.

Answer 3

I've been a smoker for 10 years, and i agree with you. I do find most smokers are inconsiderate and feel so entitled to their "guilty pleasure" that they ignore how it affects others.
The truth is smoking is very addictive and when you are a smoker, you don't want to give it up. I think if non-smokers could chill a little bit, and just move away from the smoker, maybe the smokers wouldn't have chips on their shoulders like that.

Answer 4

Not all smokers throw butts on the ground. I never do, don't toss them out the window. I acutally save the butts and put them in the trashcan.

And actually, butts can be used. As a kid, we had a foot stool. I guess after many years of use, the bottom seam started to rip a little. My mom would find a butt here and there, and couldn't figure it out, since no one smoked at home. One day, my little brother flipped it over, and noticed the rip, and started playing with it, making it bigger. Guess what the foot stool was FILLED with??? You guessed it, cigarette butts!!!!! So I guess they aren't that bad after all.

And thanks for the reminder, I need a smoke now ;O)

Answer 5

If you're gonna tear apart smoking, might as well stand on your soap box and preach about alcohol, and caffeine as well...hell, red meat is just as unhealthy, clogging your arteries and such. How about carbs...they lead to being overweight....face it, everything is said to kill you at some point! You're gonna die eventually, so why not enjoy some guilty pleasures.

Answer 6

Totally sick to death of all you frigging whingers telling us what we can and cant do to ourselves,what the hell happened to freedom of choice ?
and I bet anything you're one of these loud mouth bloody inconsiderate d*ckhead that insist on yapping as loud and as often as you possibly can on your yuppy mobile phone,,,isn't that invading our space too?
Mind your own frigging business,,if you dont f*cking like it,p*ss off somewhere else away from us,,I do have consideration around non smokers,,but to hear you forever whinging and whining,,it gets beyond a joke,,where the hell are our rights?????

Answer 7

if smoking bothers you that much than stay home .or dint go where there is smokers that is a good way not to be a second hand statistic

Answer 8

in new zealand u can't smoke anywhere (public places) not even in a pub. u can only smoke in yr car or home. it's a beautiful country. go check it out =)

Answer 9

Mmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm... get a friggin life hunny, its a fact, people smoke, you do not, get OVER it! geeze you should come to Halifax NS.. Youd probably have a heart attack!..

Answer 10

SHUT UP, WORRY ABOUT ALL THOSE INDUSTRIAL PLANTS POLLUTING THE WATER, LAND , AIR, KILLING FORESTS AND SUCH.
THINK I WILL GO HAVE A SMOKE NOW.
***** ABOUT SOMETHING IMPORTANT.
BUT IS US SMOKING PEOPLE THAT ARE KILLING THE PLANET, YOUR A DUMB A**