Yeah baby! Well, at least for another week. I decided that 20 years was enough and I should do something to ensure that I get to see my kids get married, get children etc. Doesn't change much though, my comments are based on my wife's knowledge. She happens to be a non-smoker that works with these things, so she should know.
Smokers are nearly always oblivious to the lingering effects of the habit. (As someone already noted, on top of my having observed it earlier.)
It's no more a "medical condition" than the results from getting squirted in the eye with habanero juice are from a "medical condition." Smoke is an irritant. Unlike habanero juice, it travels through the air, and it's severe enough to have an effect in small amount. (Such as what lingers on a smoker.)
I think most of us know. Funny thing about being a smoker, we are usually around smoke a lot more than you guys, and we observe. For example, people who know I smoke and see me step out and smoke often comment it afterwards, but others, who do not know, rarely comment it. Could there be something psychological going on there? Perhaps, perhaps not.
So, you'd expect us to deal with you wanting to take a break? No thanks! Even if it's a normal break (some groups do that, some don't), if it's my property, I've had enough trouble with smokers leaving their litter behind that I'm simply not going to deal with it any more. I do not want to clean up your butts. I do not want to put out the fire you started by dropping your lit butt into my can of leaves. I do not want to replace the cushions in the bench because you let the hot end of your cigarette touch it. I don't even want to make you pay to replace them. I do not want to smell the stink you left behind. I do not want to have problems breathing because that cloud of smoke blew in my face.
It'd be one thing if I didn't have these problems. But I do. Solution? No smoking on my property. If the group is having a break, and you have time to go to the store, and want to smoke while you're on the road, fair enough, but if that cloud still lingers around you, don't be surprised if it becomes a problem.
Your issue is not smokers, but idiots who apparently can't behave properly. I have a hard time believing that adults would behave as you describe.
And if you don't think I have actually had those problems, well, then that's your perspective, I doubt I can convince you of it. I know a lot of smokers can't even realize how badly they stink, or make others stink, till they stop doing it. I have had people quit smoking, then go into someone's house who hadn't quit, and tell me that I was right, it does smell.
Noone has said that smoke doesn't smell, especially if you are in the house of someone who smokes inside. We are talking about people smoking outside, there is a huge difference. I also think you are deluding yourself if you think most well-educated adults who smoke do not realize the smell etc. But as long as you smoke outside, the issue is not very big. Sure, some may be oversensitive, but that's no different that my wife not being able to stand within 10' of her own sister when she has put on perfume...
Count me among those who disagree with this. I can smell the cigarette smoke on my friends when they come back inside and sit down across the gaming table. It doesn't trigger any kind of respiratory reaction for me, and it fades after a minute or so, but it's quite noticeable.
You said it yourself. It fades quite quickly. Rookie smokers learn eventually to wait another minute or two before they enter whatever place they are smoking outside, to eliminate/minimize any possible discomfort others may have with the smell.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Lol..
