I am tired of showing up to bus stops all over this GD city and finding people smoking around the stop or shelter AND inside the shelter, basically hot boxing it. Your habit/addiction is invasive to others because the smoke is in the air thus I breath it in. You are so fucking selfish I can’t use the shelter. You know what’s worse? You fuckers take over the shelter when it’s rainy/windy/snowing SO YOU CAN FUCKING SMOKE. Can you not smoke for the few minutes you are waiting? Everyone else has to stay outside and you are BREAKING THE LAW. If you want to smoke stand down wind and 4 meters away from the stop/shelter. I don’t want cancer from all the toxic paint thinners, tar, ammonia or one of the other 599 additive-cancer causing BS.
And in case you were wondering Nova Scotia has a Smoke Free Places Act for a reason, which includes No Smoking in the following places: Educational Institutions, places of public entertainment (Bars, Pools halls, Theatres etc), Health Care Facilities, shopping areas, ferry, ferry terminal, bus, bus station or shelter, taxi, taxi shelter, limousine or vehicle carrying passengers for hire, common area of a commercial building or multi-unit residential building, including but not limited to corridors, lobbies, stairwells, elevators, escalators, escalators, eating areas, washrooms and restrooms, restaurants, lounges, beverage rooms, private clubs, cabarets, clubs or other places licensed to serve alcoholic beverages and government buildings. Do you know what that means? You can’t smoke ANYWHERE. Smoke in your fucking house, apartment or car. -Non-Smokers Everywhere
This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2014.
Don’t worry about cancer OP, your high blood pressure will get to you first.
I recently stopped but I can tell you that I fully know the law and acts and WHY those laws are in place as well as all the dangers associated with smoke and second hand smoke. Now here’s what YOU don’t realize…. Smokers don’t give a fuck about you or giving you cancer and since not one of these laws are enforced in any way what so ever smokers will continue to do so until there is a cop at every bus stop. This is the human nature of addiction, it’s why a straight guy will suck dick for coke, all that matters is getting it, your stupid cancer concerns are teritary compared to getting a haul of nicotine. Until there’s a cop at every bus stop, you’re S.O.L.
Touché Haz!
Until we treat addiction as the health issue it is, straight guys will suck dick for coke…
As long as smokes are legal, you’re just going to have to suck it up, OP. The belching exhaust of 18-wheelers, trucks, cars and buses is doing much more damage than a smoker puffing on a ciggie inside or outside the shelter. Are you going to start blowing blood vessels over that as well?
Considering smokers don’t care that they’re giving THEMSELVES cancer, ultimately, it’s futile to think they care about giving YOU cancer.
The problem is, smoking by laws aren’t enforced, so there really isn’t much you can do about it.
I can handle a little bit of smoke, and I really don’t begrudge someone their smoke addiction (it’s their life and I’m pro minding my own business) — it’s the lack of respect for the law and others who are bothered by the smoke that annoy me, but I think a lot of that is the fact that smokers don’t tend to realize how the smoke smells to non smokers. I lived with a smoker in Ottawa (unbeknownst to me when I moved in) and I didn’t notice the smell on my clothing – even when my mom told me my clothes I had just washed before I came back to Halifax smelled like smoke. I didn’t notice it until I opened a suit case of clothes about two weeks later and it hit me.
And, honestly, there are some smokers who will move if you ask nicely.
You forgot that you can’t even smoke in your own car if there’s a minor present….
even if said minor is a smoker them-self, which begs the question:
Can the teen smoke in the car?
“The belching exhaust of 18-wheelers, trucks, cars and buses is doing much more damage than a smoker puffing on a ciggie inside or outside the shelter.”
So not true. If that were the case we’d all have lung cancer by ten.
https://www.google.ca/#q=cigarette+smoke+v…
Think smokers have it bad here, try this poor fellow, poor name choice though.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/…
You’d never see this on the 52, or would you?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-26…
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to the one bitching about smoking, go pound 50 tons of sand up your ass. the chances of you inhaling enough smoke outside in the air, are about as close to me getting hit by a flying saucer. there is a thing called air currents between you and one smoking, given that even a slight breeze, will put a hell of a lot of air in the middle. i’m no rocket scientist, but check out the fact that no, you will die of something else first. and yes, i am back, but for a very short time.
Well, Baz – on the 72 you get to see the Dartmouth North Community Theatre Collective put on an impromptu performance of “The Martyrdom of Tupac”.
You are too a rocket scientist!
One has to be mindful of the no smoking policy when one’s head is in the clouds or seventh heaven.
Now that I’ve given up smoking, everywhere I look around the loser cruiser terminals I really notice the amount of garbage that butts make when assembled haphazardly around.
I think those butts are making a great comeback in the fight for number 1 garbage on streets these days. From above they look like ants, much like everything else.
Someone already beat me to the smoke from everything else far outweighing the dangers of 2nd hand smoke from a cigarette.
But OB , I wanted to point out your careless use of electricity , is causing far more harm. NS Power burns fossil fuels by the Tanker & Bulk Freighter load. To make electricity & those exhaust gases from burning is poisoning our beautiful province….& is that a wind powered , Human peddled bus you are waiting for ???
Didn’t think so …fuck off , comes to mind here OB…. & FYI I am a nonsmoker. But those people deserve to use the shelters IMO as much as you and any nonsmoker.
Ever thought of buying a respirator , or a particulate mask ?
That’ll stop vapours as hazardous as paint booth fumes …you’ll be able to stand in a bus shelter with 14 other smokers , inhaling on 2 cigarettes & a time with 4 cigar smokers in there as well & not even notice it.
sorry to the rest of you ,
Getting So Tired of complainers , who haven’t got the sense to solve a problem on their own , But need MOMMY (aka government) to solve it for them !
This isn’t an issue out here in Shitville as the little scrotes think it’s hilarious to keep smashing the bus shelters.
I’d love to know how much it costs MT to continually replace glass and repair shelters.
basil, i heard it was somewhere in the area of 700 bucks, for one small side panel.
HOT BOXING IT
“I am tired of showing up to bus stops all over this GD city and finding people smoking around the stop AND inside the shelter, basically hot boxing it.” Non-Smokers
I found this bitch both original and informative, particularly the reference to “hot boxing it” which, never having heard the phrase before, I thought might involve questionable sexual practices. Fortunately, that was not the case.
Thank you very much.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Life becomes easier, OP, when you realize they are not bus shelters. They are roadside smoking lounges. Best bet is to stand 30 feet upwind, lest you disturb the users with your coughing and gasping. This is my strategy.
Suck it up, buttercup.
What a spectacular Canada day, went down to Grand Pre, had the most sensational home made pie at the Evangeline restaurant, came home, watched Belgium beat USA in the World Cup, a good game by both sides, drank German beer, had bangers for supper, read that the Muzzers lost their appeal that wearing the burka was a HR issue, considered a handjob, but realised I was like that opera singer, Flacido Domingo and straightening myself out wasn’t going to happen.
I am shit faced.
yeah basil, beautiful day for the holiday, and just think, only 1 stabbing, and 1 shooting at the concert in dartmouth at alderney landing. they must be doing something right, i guess.