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I guess I don\'t. Living in a rural area, it seems this doesn\'t seem to be a problem here.
So you\'re telling me that an asthmatic will have an attack by walking through a brief cloud of smoke to go into a store?
Why not when they\'re on the highway with all the car exhaust or in parking lots?...Were they running to get through the cloud? What about smog or burning leaves?
Or how about this: I once had a roommate, whose GF was \'severly Asthmatic (? spelling)\" couldn\'t stand my smoking. She even went as far as to tell me I could only smoke in my room...even though she was living there rent-free, and i was paying half. If i lit up, she would start hacking and RUN (and seriously if you are having an attack can you run?) upstairs. Now MY GF got a job working with the hacker ,as she shall be known henceforth. My GF found out that the Hacker would regularly wait in the smoking area of the restaurant...and then take her breaks in the smoking area. \"because all the fun people were in there\" with seemingly no asthma attacks. This only happened at home.
Now giving the examples above and the story I find it very hard to believe that you will suffer any harm or other affects that aren\'t purely in the mind in the brief amount of time it takes you to enter a store.
In other words \"you just don\'t like it\"
Get over it...I don\'t like the rain...I don\'t have a pnemonia attack every time i have to go out into it.
I don\'t like the cold...but i don\'t get frostbite everytime i go out into it.
I don\'t like annoying people...but I deal with em.
Fact of Life: There are many things in life you will not like...Get used to it.
I find this thread really depressing....
I mean, sh*t...if we can\'t sort this one out, how will we ever deal with the real problems in the world. Passive smoking is meaningless to someone dying of hunger.
The really sad thing is, it is all so bleeding obvious: non-smokers should be protected from secondary smoking and smokers have the right to choke themselves to death if that is their choice. Surely that can\'t be too difficult to organise?...Sheer common sense I would have said....???
I mean, sh*t...if we can\'t sort this one out, how will we ever deal with the real problems in the world. Passive smoking is meaningless to someone dying of hunger.
The really sad thing is, it is all so bleeding obvious: non-smokers should be protected from secondary smoking and smokers have the right to choke themselves to death if that is their choice. Surely that can\'t be too difficult to organise?...Sheer common sense I would have said....???
Beelzebrush
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Crikey!! Is this thread still going?
I dunno... I turn my back for 5 mins to have a crafty fag and it gains another 6 pages
I dunno... I turn my back for 5 mins to have a crafty fag and it gains another 6 pages
Beelzebrush
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hmmm... I better just point out that the meaning of \'fag\' in the UK is somewhat different to our transatlantic chums\' definition
darthfoley
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I just thought you were continuing Finn\'s George Michael analogy...
*joke. everybody stay frosty*
*joke. everybody stay frosty*
stumpkiller
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I enjoy a good bon / camp fire, even though I have a similar reaction to it as tobacco smoke. Saw how it hurt my mom (before she quit) when people thought they needed to point out what she already knew, and even though I can\'t stand the smell of someone who just had a \"fag\" as opposed to a nice hickory campfire, I endevor to keep silent. and try to hide my watering eyes (if it\'s that bad) because insults won\'t help a person change their view on smoking, just make \'em mad. However, no one is allowed to smoke in my house, in my car, and neither are they allowed to leave cig butts anywhere on my property. Which isn\'t a problem since none of my friends smoke, and my husband is somewhat of a recluse, so no friends come over anyway
vincegamer
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normally???
vincegamer
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Someone mentioned a free market. I\'ve often wondered why there wasn\'t an industry movement to avoid government regulation by self-regulating.
In other words, why didn\'t half the bars in California become non-smoking? My only guess is no one was willing to be first to do it. If the industry was willing to permit smoking/non-smoking designations, why didn\'t anyone adopt the latter before the laws were passed?
Oh, by the way don\'t forget the economics. Smokers cost everyone money.
In other words, why didn\'t half the bars in California become non-smoking? My only guess is no one was willing to be first to do it. If the industry was willing to permit smoking/non-smoking designations, why didn\'t anyone adopt the latter before the laws were passed?
Oh, by the way don\'t forget the economics. Smokers cost everyone money.
