Do you smoke

^ Some non-smokers are too aggressive.

:D

Smoked for nearly 30 years and gave up 5 weeks ago on these Champix tablets. Just about getting to the stage where I don't define myself as a smoker - but not there yet. Smoking is a real additiction and it's easy to throw insults that smoking is an unsociable habit. It is of course, but it's more than that. Your life revolves around getting your next hit - "when can I fit my next fag into my day if I have thre meetings in succession" for example. It's that control it has over a smokers life rather than the health aspects that pushed me to quit. If I'm honest I enjoyed smoking and miss it. But it's an evil bloody drug.

No, I never smoked.

LSD is terrible.

Dean wrote: dean (2nd January 2008) wrote: I use to be ambivalent towards non-smokers but of late I find myself becoming less tolerant to the point of being internally quite belligerent. Since my self-control and will-power has already been proven to be weak it is only a matter of time before I lose the ability to keep those pugnacious feelings to myself. And to be perfectly honest, I am looking forward to that day.     Four years on and nothing's changed - I'd still like to be an aggressive smoker... if I'm going to stand accused and punished without trial for being rude and inconsiderate then I may as well be rude and inconsiderate; if I'm going to be treated like a second-class citizen then I see no reason not to behave like one. But it's not in my nature to be that impolite unless grossly provoked, the best I can manage is to be politely unapologetic. I was always a polite and conciderate smoker before so why should I tolerate aggressive non-smokers now.   When some non-smoker does that comical pantomime waive of disdain when some smoke drifts within 30 metres of their airspace (come on, you've all done it) I will reciprocate with an disdainful waive of dismissal of equal proportion. If that results in some haughty retort then I will politely explain that if the odour offends them then they should move away - they have that choice. I have become a lot less tolerant of non-smokers demands - I am already reduced to smoking outside, way from doorways and open windows - I am as far away from them as it is practical to be, it seems only fair that they place themselves as far away from me as it is practical to be - a little respect goes a long way.   It has never been my intention to share my smoke with anyone, I'm not a sharing person.

Totaly fed up with all that, I want to tell You how to live your life 

I think it's just human nature (passion?) but it seems with anything: a political idea, new band/genre of music, new brand of something, new to religion, new to non smoking...the most fervent tend to be the new comers indeed.

Seriously, I don't get the general anti smoking sentiment, especially the harshness of it.
If you live with/have to deal with someone who smokes then yeah, it impacts you and if you want to then try to work with it/get em to quit.

But strangers? Especially when we're outside? Does it really impact your life?
But hey, more human nature...we gotta make sure others do as we want.

Not to derail, I've sene cigars pop up a few times. I think those are nasty, shame that they smell so good. Only had one I got any enjoyment from. Ciggs were generally neutral, if forced I'd rather have that over a cigar!

frippism wrote: It's kinda like someone constantly farting in public, only farting doesn't give me cancer

There speaks someone who's never eaten a garlic chilli chicken bahar!