What is the biggest thing that bothers you most about SMOKERS? Is it.......?

Question

Is it when they dump out their ashtrays from their cars on the street or flick out their lit cig butts onto your car hood at a red light? Is it when you try to enter or exit shops & public buildings, or bus stops and have to breath through a cloud of smoke? Is it the ones who try to light up in your home or car or where you work? Maybe it's the way they drive up health insurance costs due to their greater health problems? Does their coughing or stench ever bother you? Maybe it's something else. Would love to hear from you. Thanks.

Answer 1

lol.
Okay when it bothers me most is at football matches/concerts or waiting in line somewhere. You can't move position and their big poisonous cloud engulfs you.
Usually I am polite and try to hold my breath but sometimes I end up genuinely coughing choking, or even literally gagging and they don't even acknowledge!

Next time I think i'm going to take some of that fart spray, the kind that smells absolutely vile - yet nothing like farts. And spray it in their general direction.
I hope it's flammable and I accidently take them out with a big accidental blow torching action.

Answer 2

Definitely annoying when drivers flick their cigs out the window of a moving vehicle. I really dislike when walking down the street behind a smoker and the stench wafts towards me. I will walk around them to get away. Riding in a car that smells like a dirty ashtray. I won't lend my clothes to a family member because of the stench of smoke that gets in my clothing. Have you noticed the white walls in someone's apt or home are stained with nicotine? So are the white plastic items in their home. I become angry when they smoke and have a pet living in the same home, subject the pet to a unhealthy environment.

Answer 3

Wow, now its a personal crime against you for someone to cough??? Oh and if someone coughs, they must be a heavy smoker right??Thats the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Spare me the whole "insurance costs" thing. The huge taxes the government extracts from smokers and manufacturers is what is probably paying for all the people who don't have any insurance! Why arent you here ranting about the cost that obesity is costing our country....FAR more health problems related with that, and they start way sooner.
I have also had to sit next to people on airplanes, or stand in line, with people who STINK. Its cause they don't shower, or they are fat, or they went to the gym. You make it seem that all non-smokers never cough, and never smell bad, and never litter. Its nice for you to have a class action scapegoat like that.
I'm a smoker, who has NEVER dumped my ashtray anywhere. I don't smoke where its not welcome, and I make sure that I smell fresh and clean all the time. So maybe you should go take of whiff of yourself and stop being so sanctimonious.

Answer 4

The smokers who work in convenience stores, who stand at the door, with it open, with the cigarette about two inches outside the threshold, and you have to walk directly by them.

People who don't care if you're sitting there, and figure it's their right to get to take away my air. I was eating lunch out on a bench a few weeks ago, and this guy came over and sat on the bench beside me and lit a cigarette. Ticked me off. It's not enough that they won't let me breathe, but they won't let me eat without gagging.

Last Saturday, I took my kids to a parade, and we were sitting on the ground waiting for it to start. This nasty smelling woman came and sat on the other side of my asthmatic 5-year-old with her lit cigarette in her hand. She kind of lost her balance and the hot end of the cigarette landed right on my son's shoulder.

My dad smells to high heaven, he has a habit of standing about three inches away from your face when he talks (and he does NOT take the hint when you back up). Not to mention, he's gone to the hospital a few times over the last three years for polyps and respiratory problems.

Answer 5

I look down on anyone addicted to anything unhealthy or which is used as a crutch for personal problems, but I would never force anyone to stop smoking. If I don't like it I'll leave, and if they litter then they have to be caught and fined, and if a business likes turning off non-smokers then I won't patronize them. I don't need the government or you forcing me to do what you think is right for me.

Penn & Teller say that second hand smoke doesn't cause any health problems and the one study that was ever done that concluded that and the source of all legislation over it, is scientifically unsound.

Answer 6

Coughing and hacking in a restaurant when your trying to eat or in the grocery store where you are buying the food they just hacked on is the worst to me ! GROSS, but that STALE CIGARETTE BUTT OR DIRTY ASHTRAY SMELL that just lingers on every thing it touches, I mean their clothes, skin, hair, car upholstery, furniture & BREATH is just about unbearable! Even the food they prepare from there homes has the taste and smell that only a non smoker can detect. I just can't eat it! I can't believe I could have smelled that bad, but I use to smoke so I must have. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE TO EVERYONE WHO SMELT ME !!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

the lack of concern for their own health and in the long run who is going to be taking care of them when they are suffering severly from emphysema or cancer.

the lack of concern or care for other's health who are forced to be exposed to their habit

Most smokers I know are pretty clean (throwing the butts in the trash , keeping hteir ashtrays clean, but there are those htat have no trouble throwing them and their empty packets in the street, leaving smelly ashtrays about, etc.

It is just a very inconsiderate habit

Answer 8

Is it .......the fact they are still able to participate in your little corner?
Is it...the fact cigarettes are still a LEGAL drug?
Is it not the truth the tax on cigarettes from a heavy smoker will more than cover an individuals health costs?

Don't be so bloody sanctimonious. turn the other way and live and let live!!!! There are few enough personal freedoms left in this world!

Answer 9

Well....for starters theri voices are different....very hoarse and heavy....

second most of the smokers are too selfish to realise that there are other people around who might not be liking the clouds of smoke.....they just go on smoking in our faces

Answer 10

For me it is the smell. It bothers me terribly and eventually I start wheeezing. I think people have the right to smoke, but they need to do it in designated places so the rest of us can breathe.