Gotta love folks who treat bus shelters as their own personal smoking lounges on minus double digit days. What is up with THAT? —BRRRRRRRRR….(cough, cough, cough)
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Gotta love folks who treat bus shelters as their own personal smoking lounges on minus double digit days. What is up with THAT? —BRRRRRRRRR….(cough, cough, cough)
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2012.
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Oh quit your whingeing. Thoughtful smokers will let you huddle about the ember for communal warmth and when the mercury really drops you can eviscerate them with your light sabre and climb in.
*Cue Han Solo comment about how thay smell as bad on the inside…
not sure what’s up with that… though you did leave out the part of what you did about it and their response/reaction.
mentioning people breaking a by-law with little to no detail is not very bitch-worthy and leads to a bunch of assumptions/interpretations…
Now if you asked them to move, they did not, and you whipped it out and started peeing on their shoes to get them to move, it freezing as they shy away out of the shelter…. the aromatics of fresh ammonia drowning out the ‘vile stench’ (as some call it) of ciggy smoke…
then we’d have something to go on.
Yeah, OB, did you call them out? You know, say something like this shelter is non smoking. Now get your smelly fags out of here before I call the po-pos. Take out your phone like you are going to call, and take their picture.
Xenophilia i’d agree except most people who do that are total trash and would probably shoot you in the face if you were wearing a coat they liked.
We pay for them, they monopolize them. Same fucking story over and over i’m afraid..
If you don’t like it…why don’t you step outside ?
Oh Wait ! ! !
I forgot, there are NO DOORS on bus shelters so you were outside !
As for no smoking in shelters…IF by the Rule of LAw there has to be Non Smoking decks, for non smokers to be able to be outside on a business deck . THen there should be Smoker Bus Shelters.
IT is completely UNFAIR to make it illegal to smoke inside ANYWHERE.
Now you want it illegal to smoke outside as well.
Until NS power stops filling the sky with coal & oil fired smoke, until diesel buses stop spewing exhaust gases in my face when I walk down the road…then & only then should smokers have to butt out, while out side.
You fucking smoking nazi’s wanted to ruin a good thing when we had smoking rooms, by getting rid of them.
SUCK IT UP BUTTER CUP.
Actually, More, I smoked for over 20 years before I quit, and eight years after that, smoked clove cigarettes for 3 years before I quit those, so I feel your pain. (I still smoke weed)
I can remember smoking in movie theatres, banks, elevators, grocery stores…everywhere! It was the continuing restrictions (and the tax increases) that finally make me quit for keeps. (cost of a pack of D’jarums went from $8.50/pack to $10) Once I quit, I realized that tobacco smoke really is different than incense or woodsmoke or blackened seafood smoke. It’s oilier and stickier. Because you cannot escape this miasma, your olfactory nerves stop smelling it…but it’s still there, even if you wash your hair daily…now let’s talk about teeth…
Those signs restricting your right to light up are the handwriting on the wall, More. Time to put em out for good. It’s not that hard. I can help you.
Hmm….no one smoking in my car.
What an easy commute today. Drove easily around all those morons who got into accidents in the snow. Passed 5 in 30 minutes 🙂
“Passed 5 in 30 minutes”
Heh, even his kidney stones want nothing to do with him.
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SUCK IT UP BUTTER CUP
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Seems you’re the one who has to suck it, More.
I have zero sympathy for you being a big fucking baby, complaining you can’t light up where ever you want.
Suck it up, butter cup.
Wp
They were COLD!
I still think getting rid of smoking rooms was a dumb idea… but only for bars… I totally get not smoking in restaurants
When I took the bus I either smoked outside or didn’t smoke. Yeah, it sucks, but that’s that.
I’m sure I missed all of the secret code word assignments and the handing out of the de-coder rings at the summits because of my habit too… >sigh< And Xeno, you and I must be of the same vintage… I remember all those things too.
seems to me, as a smoker, if they were there before you, you shouldn’t complain. though most shelters are declared as no smoking, who’s going to enforce it,you?
most of the time, i will smoke outside, but on miserable wet and cold days, inside i go. and as i said, who will enforce this stupid no smoking in them laws, you? not in this lifetime i’m afraid. you go start shooting off to someone, you are liable to get punched out, or worse. think on that for a bit,o.p.
You’d be surprised, sucks, to know that not many people want to mess with a nearly 6′ ginger bitch with attitude…SRSLY, no one wants to take me on…more’s the pity. Not really; not exactly the bane of my existence, but just once…ah, nevermind…
just in case, yo:
http://joethepeacock.blogspot.com/2008/01/…
Actually guy’s I’m a non smoker.
Have been for over 20 years.
My favorite poison was Drum tobacco & I like Players.
Yeah, except for the occassional cigar (like 2 cigars in all 2011) which I really don’t smoke I just light them and wave ’em around, if it happens when I’m having a drink or 6.
Or when the damn flies were so bad one day last summer, I friend gave me a cheap cigar to keep them away.
& Wheelie, you probably know sympathy is in the dictionary between scabbies & syphilis…& I don’t need any of those 3 at all, but thanks.
If you truely are someone who believes that DISCRIMINATION IS WRONG, then you need to get over the brain washing that’s been done to you recently & remember smokers are people , just like you.
They get cold, have off days, dislike the rain & are in a position where political correctness has painted a big fucking target on them for partaking in a legal product , one that’s regulated, taxed & sold by our Government.
Yet they can’t smoke inside. They can’t smoke outside. They can’t smoke in the car, if there happens to be a child in it as well.
They can’t smoke in Bars, to the detriment of those businesses. There are places where they can’t smoke walking down the damn street their taxes helped pay for ! ! !
I’m expecting to see legislation that allows them to smoke only when standing in the middle of a fire !
It is wrong, & it is discrimination, you have a health reason smoking in an inclosed space is much more hazardous, & I agree, it sure is noticable,especially when the air in the Bar is blue . So you make a change for the good of both sides, not one side.
A smokers ostracized for smoking on the street, but we are exposed to car & truck exhaust gases blasting in peoples faces downtown all day long & never a complaint. If someone started a program attacking car & bus exhaust the way smokers have been hounded…people would be stoning those belching behemouths in the summer.
Its cold & wet out.
you nonsmokers don’t like the smoke in your face…you go out in the cold & wet for a change.
Equality for all….
Not
Equality for all …. except for those guy’s over there !
When I was a smoker, i would stand outside the shelter on the down wind side. You’d have to be an insensitive arse to want others to breath your secondhand smoke.
More, spare me the lecture on equality.
Everytime you blow secondhand smoke at me, if I took my open hand and smashed that cigarette into your face, we would both get burnt ….now, that would be equality. 🙂
GV…a perfect example of why the worlds as fucked up as it is.
Violence, the only answer.
Or IMO the only answer an asshole has.
Can’t blame them for trying, I guess. Oh wait, you did.
I ask people to stop if they’re smoking in the shelter when I get there. Well, I admit that only happened once. And the girl was a real bitch about it. I’d much rather not have to ask.
more, I might have called you an arse, but not an asshole. An asshole is someone that comes up to me in the bar, and pulls that ‘slobbering drunk’ routine on me, and after several attempts to ask him to stop blowing smoke in my face, I smash the cigarette into their face with the back of my hand.
GV…We not only have different views on the derogatory meaning of asshole, we have very different methods for confronting one as well.
g.v., that is a great way to wind up dead or in a hospital. fuck, if someone did that to me, they would be eating thru a tube for a long time. i am a smoker, yes, i admit that. but some nons go too fucking far in preaching the evils of said smoking. and more, i tend to kind of agree with you too.
xeno, you is a ginger,wow? but back to case at hand. a smoker has no rights anymore, eve tho they are the same as anyone else, human. when you start to take a basic freedom away, you then start sliding to a total anarchy of everything.
okay, let’s do this then. make it a law, for anyone wearing any type of scent, or perfume illagal too, then let;s make a law against eating meat, of any kind. then hows about a law against walking on a street that has no crosswalks. sounds fucking dumb right? but this is the way it is going. anyone who doesn’t smoke now, or quit, bravo, kudos and all that shit. but to those that still burn the butt, well guys and gals, it’s a hard fucking road for some to quit. as to confronting someone smoking, how about getting rid of all the dealers with your energy. put it to good use, not just whining on here.
I haven’t confronted strangers about smoking, LS.
I do think that it’s nicotine typing for you now, though, pernicious and tenacious thing.
We’ve discussed this before: ‘Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.’ (how we explain democracy to kids) Now imagine, instead of someone smoking a ciggie at the bus stop, someone has one of those spray fumigating guns and is using it to good effect, a noxious yellow brume enveloping the whole bus shelter.
Would you still think he got here first-it’s OK?
(You know where I’m going with this, don’t you?)
I think GV is saying – If you’re being a dick and blowing smoke in his face, he is going to react. I say all the power to him. Action meet reaction. Had a friend of mine we were at the Palace in the 80s, some drunk guy walking by burned my friend (non-smoker) and started to wander off. My friend grabbed the guys cigarette and burned him with it. Sounded fair to me.
Po’ widdle smokers need their ciggies NOWNOWNOW *stomp stomp*. I swear, cigarette smoke makes your brain revert back to age 6. The whole “getting there first” thing confirms it.
More … do go on dear.
Maybe the by-law should be posted at all enclosed busstops. There is such a thing as second-hand (exhaled airborne smoke) and third-hand (carcinogenic molecules that have adhered to the body and clothing) smoke. Studies have revealed this. It’s not about picking on smokers, it’s more about the health concerns.
More, I agree with the parallel argument about what is being spewed into the air also being a health hazard, it does seem like a double standard.
Off topic but is Sebastian a car salesman? He does go on about how everybody should get their own vehicle.
mel, and others, you missed point by a mile. i used that as a fer instance thing. i don’t care who was there first middle or last. fact is if some idiot purposely got in front of my smoke, then that is their problem. i have no way to control wind movements. but ah yes, i should stop smoking you will think or say. but come on now, the gubment makes it damn near impossible to do that little thig. now with al the additives they put in them.
if you all nons want us to stop, then lobby for complete utterly banning the making and all sales of all tobacco products.until then, you will just have to put up with us poor fucks who are seriously addicted to these fucking things.
personally, i have quit at least 4 times in last 20 years or so, and know what, i got hooked on them again. a person can’t go round wearing a gas mask 24/7, you know. and of course, big brother, will not let you off the hook easy. if we all stopped smoking, think where the money will come from to ease the tax burden. if we all quit, every man, woman, and kid, will be in the hole for the next hudred years, to make up the shortfall.
yeah, we are taxed on them, and a lot goes to you, the non smokers health care, very rarely does a smoker go to the hospital. and when he does, it is usually terminal. i know people who never smoked a day in their lives, dying of cancer and other related shit. i haven’t seen many that many smokers dying of cancer lately.
Those bus shacks only have like 2 walls on em. The wind blows right through. Quit bitchin about alil second hand smoke. It just strengthens the immune system….
Besides, there’s way more toxins from motor vehicles in the air, a puff of cig smoke drifting your way isn’t even making a difference.
Stop comparing cigarettes to cars, it’s idiotic. How was your ride into work on your cigarette? Or how did your mother like riding to the hospital in one after she had a heart attack? Enjoy a glass of orange juice or cup of coffee this morning? They sure didn’t ship here on a cigarette.
Xenophilia feels so strongly because he loves the bus shack & wants to marry it.
Xenophilia is a girl, but she does live in New England where “that sort of thing” is now legal.
Here ya go, Mel. Best of both worlds. >; )
http://www.dirjournal.com/internet-journal…
” if we all quit, every man, woman, and kid, will be in the hole for the next hudred years, to make up the shortfall.” That’s not true.
AHHAHAHA Mel.
That’s *awesome*
Also: technically there’s no smoking allowed at bus stops and terminals so even the ones who smoke outside around stops and terminals are dicks.
Tangentially related, yet still awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUeJtadDPac
My Malboros taste so much better in full view of non-smokers
Spare me all of this “the gubment makes it impossible(to have a cigarette in public)” whining.
Pissing and shiting is more legal and more necessary than cigarettes, and the laws for pissing and shiting makes it illegal to do in a public place like a bus shelter.
Simply put, if you want to smoke, then FCK OFF! I don’t give a sht about your need to scratch your addiction. Your rights aren’t getting violated by a bus shelter restriction. Just FCK OFF you inconsiderate Arse.
And, just for the record, I smoked. And, when I did, I violated others right a ten fold more than they restricted mine. So go ahead and call me a hypocrite, I am certain that I am, but that doesn’t justify your actions.
If someone walks up to me at a bus stop (not a shelter) I’ll try and move downwind, or ask if the smoke is bugging them – I try to be proactive about this. I don’t want to aggravate anyone for any reason, let alone for smoking. I’d hope most people, not just smokers, care about others at least that much.
It’s not a big inconvenience to put out a smoke. I’m sorry OB that you got the other end of the stick when it comes to smokers. I wouldn’t smoke in a bus shelter if I thought there were any chance of anyone else being around – i.e. late at night in a remote locale on a very cold night – that doesn’t happen very often.
People are selfish in general for a number of reasons, and I guess smokers can be guilty of this as any other marginalized group in society can. But speaking for myself, I’m not exactly proud of being a smoker, I just am, for now, until I can quit, hopefully soon. Until then, I’ll be the guy at the bus stop who moves out of your breathing space when I see you coming.
If i had the time, I’d love to invent a device that sucks on a smelly cigar and expells the smoke out the other end. I’d buy the shtiest cigars I could find and go about my day performing drive by shootings at arseholes that smoke cigarettes in places where they feel they have the right to smoke.
(warning: long) Wow-Dartmouthy- just a few hours between those two posts, but what a difference in attitude! (S’OK—if this forum had a ‘douche jar’ I’da put in a few loonies by now…)
I used to say that I wished I was a non-smoker, but I didn’t want to quit. I thought it would be too painful, and the few times I tried it, I failed *really badly* (In college, I thought I could quit cigs if I also quit coffee…I went to my 8 a.m. tennis class w/o either and started seeing double, tried to smash my opponent in the face with a power serve (luckily, aim was off) cut my next class for a quadruple espresso and a pack of fags that I sat on the curb and smoked one after another)
But when I finally did quit for good (or until someone gave me a clove cigarette that I thought was tobacco-free but was really tobacco marinated in clove oil and I got addicted again right away–’nother story) I learned the secret to quitting:
1. set a quit date at least six weeks in advance. The time you spend in preparing to quit is key. during this time, make lists, such as why you shouldn’t smoke, what you can buy with the money you don’t spend on fags, etc.
2. get some buddies or strangers to quit with you. this was very helpful to me. Are there smoking cessation groups near you in D-town? Maybe you could start one at the community centre.
3. I took a test to find out what kind of smoker I was (there were categories like social, habitual, busy hands and cold stoned addicted—me.) Turns out the only way for a smoker with my kind of addiction to quit was cold turkey. Knowledge is power.
4. You are fighting an addiction more powerful than cocaine or heroin. Take sick or vacation time. You really need to concentrate on you.
5. You need to really fuck with your daily schedule to remove the cig. trigs. Start eating breakfast. Instead of going out to smoke, take a power walk around the block. Mess everything up schedule/routine wise as much as you can, and make sure a good hour each day is spent on exercising (important because your metabolism will go down)
4. Meet weekly with your smoking buds and talk about positive changes, etc.
5. Use an aid. I used the patch (I rather liked the side effect of vivid dreams) the gum didn’t work for me. Also take deep breaths and exhale as if you were blowing smoke.
Dartmouthy, I can guarantee that if you follow these steps, quitting smoking will be possible, but not all that painful.
Sorry to hog up all this bandwidth on a non bitch…
Thanks for the tips Xeno – my first post was me being flippant, I figured I should follow that up with a second post, being real 🙂 haha
I have tried cold turkey in the past, with limited success… I have tried Champix – twice… The first time I lasted a month which was great, but then the first time dfrinking it was all over – the second time I started going a little wrangly, so I thought it was best to stop (really I shouldn’t be bursting out into tears at work or home alone on the sofa! lol)
I got a treadmill for Christmas, and I have been working hard burning some lard and sweating, I do find after a good work out my desire to smoke is cut significantly… I think quitting smoking for me will be part of an overall program of better health. I’ll get there sooner or later!
Thanks for caring!!
D man, if you can quit or a month, you can quit for good, b/c the first two weeks are the hardest!
Also, if you have friends who smoke, they might be happier with you as a smoker than not. I remember one smoker friend saying “cigarettes are your friends!” My reply was “Really? I don’t cry when my friends aren’t available” Just something to keep in mind.
Also, pretty sure you smoke weed? Some people need to stop smoking everything… I didn’t. I think exhaling smoke actually tricked my brain into thinking it was cigarettes, but I’m not sure…
Well I quit for a month using mind altering substances, and let me tell you, they _are_ mind altering… it’s been since August and I’m finally starting to feel back to normal! lol. So it wasn’t me, it was a drug to make me less dependant on another drug – I already have all the reasons I need though to do it myself. It’s a goal I have in mind and the more I work out and get in shape, the more smoking is the one target I have left. And I think of my little guy and the fact I’d like to be around as long as possible… Nuff said 🙂