Are you a smoker?

Question

Are you a smoker if so, do you intend to quit? If smoking is bad for health why do you wanna smoke.
If you are a non smoker, do you find that in public places like restaurants, the better area are usually reserved for smokers and most smokers don't seem to care if their smoke are in your face???

Answer 1

NO i dont' smoke, used too, but quit when i got pregnant with my first!

THERE'S COOLER WAYS TO DIE!

Answer 2

I read all the answers above mine. It is very interesting when you read "smokers" and "non smokers" comments.
Most of the smokers are going to quit "soon" or they will "never" quit. The argument about banning smoking every where will go on forever.

I was a smoker all my life. I would choose a cigarette over food, sex, water, anything. It is the worst addiction there is and it is criminal that the government kept it quiet as long as they did.
I don't care what anyone says, it is not just the habit or oral fixation you are dealing with, it is a damn addictive drug............

Smokers do not get the better areas any where. Smokers do care if the smoke bothers you.
I wish I could see how the history books explain this drug in thirty years from now.
I have COPD. I am on oxygen 24/7 and on other medications. I am on total disability because even with the oxygen I cannot do my job. So smoking is not a habit that is easy to break. One thing we know for sure, it is a killer. Knowing this fact, people still do it.

I don't know anyone that smokes that does not want to quit. You don't "just do it". Have a little compassion.

Answer 3

I'm a non-smoker and no, I don't find the better area is reserved for smokers. Seems to me to be the other way around. In fact, in some places it seems like smokers are crammed into a tiny room almost as if it were punishment. Not that I'm against that but it seems a bit humorous.

And no, it seems it's about 50-50 with smokers being courteous with their smoke. One of my siblings is a smoker and it really upsets him when other smokers light up at a dinner table when people are still eating.

I think it's a combo of factors. For older people, mid-50s and older, are from a time when smoking in your office, in any part of the restaurant, a store, etc. was commonplace. So it's definitely an adjustment for them.

I also think that other smokers just don't care about what their smoke does. I don't think that's specific to them being a smoker rather it points to a persistent trait of rudeness and selfishness. :) Probably the same type of person who talks on their cell phone while trying to place an order at Starbucks.

Answer 4

I am a smoker, and I intend to quit. I also think an increasing number of smokers don't necessarily "want" to smoke as much as it is an addiction they fell into before they appreciated the consequences.

As for designated smoking areas: I live in New York where you may no longer smoke in any public place. That was most recently expanded to include all restaurants and even bars.

However, it isn't very fair to say all smokers have no consideration for non-smokers. Even before the ban, I always requested seating in the non-smoking section if I was with a group that had just one non-smoker. I try to keep my cigarette away from others, including smokers, because no one likes someone's smoke in their face, and it irritates me when people light up a cigarette at the dinner table while others are still eating.

In contrast, many non-smokers have become spoiled and obnoxious. Smokers get nasty looks or comments from non-smokers even when they're following all the rules - smoking in designated areas and so forth. I've seen non-smokers in my office building make faces and wave their hands frantically in front of their faces when they walk by someone smoking outside with no less than 5ft or so between them as they pass by.

Answer 5

You are very RUDE.

(Quit smoking 12/4/05).

Smokers have paid "Sin Tax" which provide stuff to smokers and non-smokers like government buildings, stadiums, and national parks. How rude to tell a group of people who paid above and beyond the general public that they cannot enjoy the facilities they paid for. Rude .... just rude.

Now, if the citizens of the USA decided to stop the "Sin-Taxes" upon smokers and made tobacco products illegal, then this would show that non-smokers really cared for society instead of the rich jerks who can afford to go to restaurants.

Answer 6

i am actually in a volunteer group that goes around to schools and teaches kids to not smoke and all of the harmful things that are in a cigarette or cigar. i really dont even pay attention in restaurants, what the "better seating area" is. where i live, they are trying to make it a "smoke-free state", and i am all for it.

smoking kills.
big tabacco lies.

Answer 7

im not a smoker and it really bothers me when people smoke near me.

But they passed a law now, where you cannot smoke in any restaurant.

Answer 8

iam smoker tried 2 quit many times but still smokin guess ill quit when i die

Answer 9

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Answer 10

No i dont smoke i used to but im glad i no longer do it stinks real bad and gives me headaches.