This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
May you choke on your smoke
To all the fuckers who feel that they have the right to light up a cigarette on the beach at Shubie Park. For fucks sake, look around you, all you see are tons of kids !!! The beach is too small for everyone to not be affected. Everyone knows what secon
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Yes, Karma’s a bitch. Don’t pretend like you never irritated other people when you smoked. I love how ex-smokers immediately adopt a holier-than-thou attitude the second they put down the pack. Since you used to light up, you should lighten up. And by the way, your language is a hundred times more foul than cigarette smoke.
I doubt that the smoke from a cigarette is going into kids’ lungs on a beech where the wind is usually strong and it’s open air. What probably bothers you more is YOU SEEING people smoking. Get over yourself!
IF YOU DONT LIKE THE SMOKE DONT GO. ITS NOT ILLEGAL TO SMOKE ON THAT BEACH. FIND A NEW BEACH!
I have a couple of questions. Don’t mean to cause offense, just curious…1. Are there no smoking signs on Shubie Beach? (I don’t know, haven’t been there in years.)2. When you say the beach is small, how small are we talking here. Like elevator small? Because that would make a lot of sense, and put the vitriol in your bitch in some kind of workable context. If we are talking “longer than 25 feet with no discernable roof over it”, I think you might be overreacting slightly. 3. Were your kids slathered in Factor 40? I’m sure they were, because a lot of people would argue that a few hours in the sun in the middle of the day is more harmful to your average 2 year old than a wisp of DuMaurier on the breeze. 4. (I think this one is especially important.) Did you ask the smoker not to light up around your kids? I know that’s all it would take for me to butt out. (And here I mean nicely, or at least politely. And with fewer swear words than your bitch.) That would have been a great way to show some kids how polite, mature and respectful adults behave around each other and resolve their differences, and earned you some shiny new karma in the deal! Just a thought. …And well done for quitting.
foul language is not cancer causing ‘queen nicotine’if u can smell 2nd hand smoke it is entering your body ‘banjon’people should have enough respect 4 each other to not knowingly harm each other with poison ‘non smoker’25 feet wow!!!!!! that’s a long beach (omfg!!!!!!) ‘beach butt’nicotine like alcohol kills brain cells which us why i am not surprised at all by the brainless comments here ………. quit or die……… fools
when they fence in the outdoors and put walls around it, we will all stop smoking outside…til then, go sit in a restaurant, a bar, a plane, a train, a car, a mall, or anywhere else your lean lungs but dirty mouth will appreciate
Its great that you have quit smoking, and even better that you care deeply about your children and their health. I am a smoker (with a young son), and would never think of smoking around him, or any other children for that matter. But, when you are in a public, out of doors place, such things as those smoking around you cannot be avoided. From a practical perspective, I think you have nothing to worry about. The smoke expelled from the lungs (or cigarette itself) acts like a plume, is advected with the wind, and mixes with the ambient air. This takes place on a very short time scale, not to mention the many chemical reactions that ensue, and ultimately change the composition of the smoke. This said, I am pretty sure you could calculate the radius over which the second hand smoke would be harmful, on a typical beach day. I am quite certain that it would be on the order of the width of a typical beach blanket, or a bit more. So, there is really nothing to worry about. Unlike mhw commented, if you can smell it, it really says nothing about the concentration of harmful substance you are inhaling. We cannot escape breathing in what others breath out – a classic introductory problem taught to physics students asks to calculate the number of molecules from Caesar’s last breath you breathe in with every breath you take (it is about 6), so I guess you cannot control what goes in.So, just go to the beach, have fun, consider that unless someone is smoking within a few short feet of your children, they wont be feeling too much negative effect, AND, if it is that much of a problem, politely ask the person smoking to move downwind (he/she will surely oblige). Cheers
Ah, yes, there’s nothing like going to Birch Cove, sitting in the shade of a maple tree and watching a Kraft-Dinner-fattened lady smoking in front of her kids and saying things like, ‘That girl’s all that’ and ‘That bitch is the bomb’. Welcome to the wonderful world of TV socialization. It’s best that your kids get accustomed to the brutality of it all now, lest they perish!
Regarding the response of the pretentious scientist: if you can smell it, you are absorbing the harmful chemical compounds. Period. Many people have reached maximum saturation of this kind of substance, and it makes them sick to take in a single molecule. Plus the kids step on cigarette butts that have been jammed into the sand/ashtray and play with them – sometimes they put them in their mouths and light them. Idiot.
Regarding the response of the pretentious scientist: if you can smell it, you are absorbing the harmful chemical compounds. Period. Many people have reached maximum saturation of this kind of substance, and it makes them sick to take in a single molecule. Plus the kids step on cigarette butts that have been jammed into the sand/ashtray and play with them – sometimes they put them in their mouths and light them. Idiot.
Regarding the response of the pretentious scientist: if you can smell it, you are absorbing the harmful chemical compounds. Period. Many people have reached maximum saturation of this kind of substance, and it makes them sick to take in a single molecule. Plus the kids step on cigarette butts that have been jammed into the sand/ashtray and play with them – sometimes they put them in their mouths and light them. Idiot.
i wonder what is worse for you, having 2nd hand smoke blown in your face or being punched in the face (considering long term damage)if smokers knowingly harm other people could they be held liable in court for damages?
anyone?