You're right, smoking is a personal choice. Do it all you want, I don't care. But the second that you assume it is a right to expose me to dangerous chemicals for the the sake of your enjoyment, I gain the right to point out that you are wrong. Quit whining, and move on with your life. If you don't want to hear about it, go somewhere else.
Stop pissing and moaning because you are "exposed" to a tiny whiff of cigarette smoke for two seconds as you are walking down the street. You will not get cancer from that, and if you find it so disgusting and/or cough and wheeze from a split second exposure to a tiny amount of cigarette smoke, go see a doctor, NOW. You obviously have some very serious mental and/or physiological health problems.
Don't try to push your blantant disregard for good health on us, just go somewhere else. It is very arguable that smokers intrude on my personal space when on a street corner, or outside my place of work. These are spaces that I can't go around to get to work, and I would rather not walk through your smoke.
Once again, quit whining. When you are "exposed" to a tiny whiff of cigarette smoke for two seconds, you will not get cancer and die. If you seriously have to find a new way to walk to work just because you might pass a smoker along the way and for a split second be exposed to cigarette smoke, you have truly serious issues that only professionals can take care of. A smoker out in the open air does not intrude upon you because you don't like being exposed to the smell for a couple of seconds. Why not turn your wrath on people with halitosis? People that don't shower enough? Why don't you go whine about the absence of subsidized deoderant? Why don't you complain about piston engined cars, which pump far more hazardous chemicals into the air in a single half hour drive than I will in a lifetime of smoking two packs a day? You certainly ingest far more cancerous chemicals from them than you do from passing a smoker while walking to work.
You're whining about passing a smoker on the way to work. If you're going for stupid, why not go all out?
You can smoke outside all you want, just do it out of the way somewhere. Like, not 2 feet outside the door, which in many cases is also illegal.
Once again, said smoker is doing you no harm unless you stand two inches in front of him and actively try to inhale as much smoke as you can.
I've met thousands of smokers in my lifetime, and many of them are giant douchebags about what they do, and like to assume they have a right to smoke. Whiny, self righteous smokers, and there are a lot of them, are the biggest pricks around. The only reason it appears to be different to you is because we are on opposite sides of the fight. In closing, Go away, stop trying to push your strange set of chemicals on other people.
Someone on the street you pass on your way to work is not pushing anything on you. It's clear that you're the kind of person that only thinks about yourself, and doesn't give a damn about anyone else. The evil smoker that is standing outside just puffing straight up into the atmosphere, how dare he do something that might, for just a second, make you feel
slightly uncomfortable. How dare he do something that might make an overly sensitive and mentally unstable person find a new way to walk to work.
Seriously, have you read what you've posted here? You're whining about a smoker that you might pass on the way to work and ingest harmful chemicals and be exposed for half a second to the smell. I smell far worse things in my daily life than cigarette smoke, we all do, why aren't you whining about them? You're really grasping for straws here.
She quit about 15 years ago.
