"I hate smokers" thread

[RetiredGreyFox]

I'm a non smoker and I've never even held one in my 53 years but I already think that smokers have been bent over backwards to help 'protect' us non smokers.
I came through a time where smoking was allowed in airplanes, in cinemas, in restaurants, in pubs, in work, in a Doctors waiting room, at the hospital, in a ward and everywhere else you could mention.
I made the decision to go into these places fully knowing what I would be smelling but now it has completely turned around and I make the choice to stand with smokers outside sometimes otherwise I'd have nobody to talk to.
To actually complain that smokers smell and they make you feel ill is going a bit too far after they are already made to feel inferior.

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

To actually complain that smokers smell and they make you feel ill is going a bit too far after they are already made to feel inferior.

They choose to smoke.
It is not like they are born with the problem or anything.

 

[cm1179]

i can't believe people were ever allowed to smoke on a plane. there is no way on earth i'd do that lol

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

i can't believe people were ever allowed to smoke on a plane. there is no way on earth i'd do that lol

Around 10 years ago people were allowed to smoke in University lectures!

 

[Efour]

I would have loved to smoke a pipe during a lecture.

 

[Pulse]

I hate the smell of smokers. Unfortunately, it's something that I've had to learn to put up with. My current girlfriend has been smoking since the age of 13, she's now 20, and why? I just couldn't tell you, I just find that rather sad. She did quit for two months, up until two weeks ago when she had her driving test, and she had 'one' the night before and has started again since, saying that the 'one' she had the night before started her off again. I say it as 'one' as when I found out the night before I went through her bag (Call me paranoid) to find an empty 10 pack. Now she is smoking as much as she was before and has accepted that she is going to be a smoker again. The reasons she stopped was because I wanted her to and because it was causing her health problems, but apparently neither matter any more.

/Emo rant

 

[Thorper]

i can't believe people were ever allowed to smoke on a plane. there is no way on earth i'd do that lol

In a way it was better back then, as fresh air was brought into the plane instead of just being filtered and recirculated.

But yeah, couldn't care less if people smoke...its their choice at the end of the day.

 

[V4NT0M]

I find the act of people smoke in public annoying yes, but I also find people who are idiots annoying and the weather. It doesn't really affect me that much.

The only problem I have with 'smokers' are how whiny some of them are about giving up. I understand addiction but contrary to popular belief you can "just stop". Same as fat people.

i hate people who drive cars! i cant go out for a walk without smelling the exhaust fumes , they stick to my skin and its all i can smell until i have my weekly bath!
its disgusting! everyone should ride bycles!

I see what you did there.

 

[Hades]

I find smokers smell vile and, as mentioned by someone earlier, put it in the same category as someone who has BO. I'm so glad it has been banned in public places.

It's everyon'e choice whether to smoke or not so it's up to them. But having watched my dad die of smoking related lung cancer it is a truly awful way to go. For that reason alone I will do everything I can to disuade my kids from smoking when they get older. I know we all have to die sometime but having witnessed it first hand that really isn't one of the ways I'd choose.

 

[Cosimo]

Get over it. People in shops and on public transport smell worse.

 

[krz1]

Removed due to language.

 

[cm1179]

In a way it was better back then, as fresh air was brought into the plane instead of just being filtered and recirculated.

But yeah, couldn't care less if people smoke...its their choice at the end of the day.

it's the fire risk i'm thinking of. my friend used to smoke in his house and i remember being 19 and playing the original gta (top view) over link up, we were back to back and i was laughing as i chased him with an uzi and dropped my cigarette under the computer desk, i scrambled around to get it and ended up pushing it under his bed, que him jumping up and having to pull the bed over so i could get it. my heart was racing, i would not want that kind of situation on a plane lol

 

[Freakbro]

Clearly I do a job where people have the intelligence to use capital letters and not start sentences with 'and'.

Old school there mglover (like me ), from what I have recently found out it is now acceptable in the English language to start sentences with a conjunction.

 

[Maccapacca]

Smoking effects so much, my Dad missed me on the graduation stage because he popped out for a cigarette, you can see people in quite enjoyable circumstances itching to get out for another hit, we don't let our kids stay over Nanny and Granddad's because they would come back smelling of stale smoke.

I can't think of one reason why anyone would willingly smoke and I don't know why today people smoke at all.

My Dad smokes 40 a day and is a 40% tax payer, that's six and half thousand pounds a year he has to earn to smoke, yet he moans about the price of a chicken in Waitrose.

 

[Wossi]

I love it when non smokers play the cancer card. My cousin died of throat cancer. He never smoked a day in his life, my mum's uncle smoked everyday and died peacefully of old age.

It's a lottery and if the odds are stacked slightly more against me? It's my choice.

 

[UncleRuckus]

eeer wut

Psychological experiment, mate

 

[doiks14]

They choose to smoke.
It is not like they are born with the problem or anything.

I started smoking when I was 13, yes, It was my choice, but it definitely wasn't a mature choice... 13 year old's can't make mature choices

 

[matthewwhitton]

I hate the smell of smokers. Unfortunately, it's something that I've had to learn to put up with. My current girlfriend has been smoking since the age of 13, she's now 20, and why? I just couldn't tell you, I just find that rather sad. She did quit for two months, up until two weeks ago when she had her driving test, and she had 'one' the night before and has started again since, saying that the 'one' she had the night before started her off again. I say it as 'one' as when I found out the night before I went through her bag (Call me paranoid) to find an empty 10 pack. Now she is smoking as much as she was before and has accepted that she is going to be a smoker again. The reasons she stopped was because I wanted her to and because it was causing her health problems, but apparently neither matter any more.

/Emo rant

Bad times, I asked my gf to give up also, she has the occasional one on a night out. Also, it's so expensive nowadays, my dad smokes loads, he doesn't even know he is doing it, like a repetitive robot!!

 

[shoes]

shall me and you go out on a night out and see who gets closer to the ladies?

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa as long as you keep thinking with your dick and not your head I will always be a better person than you, as a smoker or not.

 

[Squark]

To actually complain that smokers smell and they make you feel ill is going a bit too far after they are already made to feel inferior.

But they do

The smell of cigarette smoke gives me a really sharp headache, I can't just ignore that.

I appreciate that you make an effort to try and stop smokers feeling ostracised though.