Who the fuck do you think you are? Stop smoking at the bus stop or take that filthy habit and walk down the road about a mile! Bridge terminal especially! —IDONTSMOKE!
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2012.
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As an X-Smoker of 30 years I sympathize with smokers today. They are treated like a criminal and forced to smoke on the street. They are ostracized and made to look like a bunch of losers. People need to have a little more compassion and recognize the addiction factor, which today, with all the extra additives in smokes is hard to kick. I hate the smell of smoke too now, but that wasn’t always the case. Overall I find most smokers do try to be considerate of non smokers. But really, is it any worse than other addictions we all suffer from. And don’t go saying you don’t have any addictions. That is bullshit. We all have addictions, some are more easily concealed than others. Personally, I guess as an X Smoker I have compassion for smokers. I don’t like smoke blown in my face, but I do sympathize. I guess you would have to have been a smoker at one time to get it, but it is not an easy habit to break. There by for the Grace of God goes me. If their smoke is bothering you so much why don’t you move a little further from the bus stop. The exercise would most likely do you good.
IF 50 % of patio’s & decks HAVE TO BE RESERVED FOR NONSMOKERS.
Then IMO 50% of Bus stops & shelters should be exactly the same way. I personally am sick & fuckin’ tired of nonsmokers picking on a minority, if they tried doing that to blacks, crippled, asians or other people, it wouldn’t be tolerated .
I believe in fairness & if a nonsmoker has rights …then where the hell are the smokers rights ?
-ps. I’m a nonsmoker myself, but I hate this BS.
Oh fuck off, wogdog.
Starting to smoke is a choice. We make choices every day and everyone has to live with the consequences of our choices. And the consequence was addiction.
Smoking stinks. Smokers are used to their own smell so they don’t realize how stinky it really is and I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they’re the ones moving away from the crowd. They are, after all, the ones making the stink.
I have tons of friends who smoke, and I don’t begrudge them that (in fact, I really don’t care that they smoke — aside from being concerned for their health), but I’d say most are pretty inconsiderate with lighting up (when and where).
Why would I move away from the Bus stop as a non smoker? It’s written on the god damn thing “NO SMOKING”
Get your arse out of the bus stop, you chose to smoke, so smoke where it’s legal. Inside the bus stop isn’t one of those places. No one made you smoke, so spare me the compassion bit.
I look at it as just one of the consequences of taking up the habit in the first place. Just like smelly hair, clothes & breath, yellow fingers & teeth, increased risk of heart disease, stroke or cancer, if you want to smoke, then should expect to be segregated or restricted on where and when you can light up as another consequence as well. (and then being ostracized by militant non-smokers). Just one of the risks. Especially now as it’s become less tolerant than years past. If you don’t like it, don’t smoke. Afterall, no one is forcing you to smoke. You don’t HAVE to smoke. It serves no purpose and has no positive benefits.
What I hate the most are these smokers who, after only getting on the bus 4 stops ago, are absolutely gagging for a puff. So much so that they have the unlit cigarette in their mouth, ready to go, and their lighter in their hand so they won’t waste endless seconds lighting up their smoke. And then, as they are getting off at their stop, they literally have one foot on the bus and one on the street when they light up. Meanwhile, the person behind them doesn’t even get off the bus before they’re hit this wall of disgusting, shit-filled smoke.
Kick ’em in the baby maker.
Donk? Where did this violent streak come from? lol You’re usually fairly soft-spoken.
Donk got her shit-kickers on! lol
This whole ‘smoker’s rights’ thing is such a joke. Those going on about their ‘rights’ as smokers make it seem like smoking is essential to life and liberty.
Vastie said it perfectly: you don’t HAVE to smoke.
I feel more compassion for those with food addictions than smoking addictions. You GOTTA eat to live, yet all smoking will do is kill your ass.
And all this nonsense about ‘smoking was socially acceptable back in the day but now OMG poor smokers are always getting shat on’ is just hilarity. You know what else was socially acceptable back in the day? Husbands beating their wives, black slavery, residential schools for aboriginal children… and none of that shit is acceptable today. Things change, and this is just one of them (usually after the negative effects of that shit comes out). It’s not nice to beat your wife, it’s not nice to have black slaves and it’s not nice to rip children from their communities to ‘assimilate’ them, and OH HAY! It’s not nice to smoke anymore.
So why don’t y’all suck up some fresh air and deal with it.
Lol, it’s just a crappy day Avast. I’ll be back to mild mannered by tmrw.
Being fat is also a choice. And far unhealthier than smoking. So let’s also ridicule the waddlers as they flop around the streets and restaurants; they are much more disgusting than smokers.
Sorry to hear you’re having a crappy day, Donk. Bless.
And please don’t take what I said as anything other than an observation. The ‘grittier’ Donk just sorta threw me off, is all. lol
Hope your day improves. 🙂
Eh. I’d rather fuck a fatty than a smoker, Grumpy.
True, the flabwaves can add something to the
experience.
Thanks 🙂
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I call bullshit.
I didn’t read all these but why are everyone’s panties in a twist?
This shit is simple:
Second hand smoke affects the health of those around you. This is common knowledge, proven fact therefore in public places I agree there should be no smoking.
Yes we all have addictions but I don’t make people watch gossip girl while waiting for the bus, I don’t see people shoving their pills down other people’s throats or forcing them to do shots. Most of us keep it to ourselves. So your addicted, I feel bad for you. You choose to smoke, I choose not to, shouldn’t I have the right to protect myself from the ill effects of YOUR addiction?
As for ostracizing, persecuting, and treating smokers like criminal losers, well that’s about as ubsurd as me saying you’re assaulting, torturing or attempting to murder me by smoking in my presence. I have never in person seen or heard someone berating someone else for smoking, not even pregnant welfare moms smoking up bus shelters and blowing it in the faces of their child army.
You’re not ALLOWED to smoke in bus shelters but someone ALWAYS is. Guess how many times I’ve seen one of us mean non-smokers say something to one of you poor misunderstood smokers? Never!
Smoke on that.
Easy to criticize and judge smokers WHEN YOU ARE A NON SMOKER!!! You know what? Most people smoke when they are young for various reasons peer pressure, whatever. Then it becomes a HABIT and there isn’t much choice left then. PK don’t be such an idiot. Who in the name of sam hill would choose to smoke and spend big bucks, stand out in the rain, feel ostracised, and stink??? No one, because it is an addiction like all the others. The rest of you self righteous perfect people and all turn your noses up at the smokers ( I am NOT one anymore either) but I wonder what addiction YOU struggle with??? Have a little bit of compassion would ya?
PK: you are either a newly converted Non smoker or else someone who never smoked before and doesn’t realize the difficulty of addiction to smokes. Like I said, we all struggle with something. Let’s hope people are more compassionate with YOU and what YOU struggle with.
Hey I smoke a joint most nights (no tobacco so don’t even) I smoke at my home. Outside. Rain snow whatever. That’s my little addiction and it doesn’t affect anyone else. If I smoked cigarettes I would have the same consideration. I don’t wear perfume to my doctors office, I don’t leave my cell phone on in the hospital, I’m quiet in libraries, I follow “the rules”. I try my best not to make choices that will negatively affect those around me because I am a considerate person. Anyone remember those?
i don’t smoke cigarettes and always smoke outside, no exceptions
“Being fat is also a choice. And far unhealthier than smoking.”
Just for the record, someone being fat isn’t ALWAYS by choice, granted, it’s a small percentage. Some cases are the result of such things as hypothyroidism, Cushing’s syndrome, depression, even certain types of medications can cause increased body weight.
But regardless, someone else being fat, whether by poor choices or by legit medical condition, does in no way shape or form, affect YOUR health or infringe on the right to breathe cleaner air.
I don’t think anyone is ridiculing smokers. I’m just stating that I feel, if you choose to smoke in public, then you ‘forfeit’ any ‘right’ to stand where-ever the hell you want when you do it. Again, you don’t like, don’t smoke.
Madein the 80’s I gotta ask … WHy do you not have the cell phone on in the hospital ?Every doctor, nurse , paramedic in the place have a phone & you know its not only on …it has to be on when they are on duty ! ! !
So why do you have yer cell phone off ? ? ?
You don’t smoke Painy …yet you always smoke outside ?!?
(Sometimes the comments made in this place confuses me )
oh More… you need coffee.
It’s only ciggies she avoids.
Those heavily addicted are the ones that annoy me most.
I’ve always been for moderation, myself.
A little hug to help you feel better Donk
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I smoked for 17 years, started at 13, quit at 30. I never smoked where it was prohibited, my cravings were never so bad that I couldn’t wait a few minutes.
Now I’m wondering…do some smokers take a “smoke break” when they go out to a movie? I’m sure they do. Kind of a sad bit of irony, I know people who sleep with an ashtray, yet don’t light up where it’s not allowed.
So, I guess what I’m saying is, I just don’t buy the whole “I can’t wait any longer” excuse.
Yes painy is a bit confused. Too much weed painy back off the dope. And YOU have the nerve to judge the cigarette smokers????? OMG give me a friggen break!
More: some places in the hospital they still have no cell phone signs and when I see one I comply. If there is the slightest chance my phone addiction is going to mess up some trillion dollar hospital equipment and/or harm someone I’m not risking it 🙂
who said anything about dope? cigarette smokers are welcome on my back porch too
Its nice of you to have a porch to keep the rain (& snow) off yer visiting smokers heads when they go out to light up.
& madeinthe80’s … monitoring stations in the ICU (where I was earlier this year) are supposedly a sensitive area. WHen the surgeon came by to see us, he took a call on his phone …which promptly gave me the idea to turn mine back on. None of the nurses said anything … & its pretty hard not to notice somone typing on a handset. I’m a firm believer in the old saying “When in Rome …”
i’ll make you a deal o.p., if i stop smoking at bus stops, you stop breathing?
Yeah cause there’s nothing like inhaling lungfuls of diesel exhaust.
woggie, i’m liking you more every day , you devil in disguise you.
Within the limits of Hillbilly Hollow, smoking and chewing chicken fat are mandatory. Fuck you city slickers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUEjnoWpdao
I think this sums it up nicely.
Thank you South Park.
“Yeah cause there’s nothing like inhaling lungfuls of diesel exhaust.”
I hack at those things too. What’s your point?
Oh PS smokers, I don’t know what the hell is wrong with you and your ability to keep the fuck still, but when I move away from you, stop pacing back and forth and strutting all around the gad damn bus stop. Keep downwind and stay there. Your fidgeting makes me nervous.
You stink smokers and you’re shit is toxic that’s why you’re being ostracized. In a nutshell.
“Peer pressure” is a bunch of bullshit and another way kids aren’t blamed for dick fuck all.
I had lots of peer pressure while I was younger to:
1. smoke
2. have sex
3. do drugs (hard and soft)
4. drink
5. shoplift
6. cut class
and guess how many of those things did I do?
ZERO of them.
And I know a lot of other people who made it through this so called ‘peer pressure’ without getting involved in any of that shit.
Smokers always gotta blame someone, don’t they?
Both my husband & I are allergic to cigarette smoke, I’m severely asthmatic & have COPD, neither of us CHOOSE to be sick or asthmatic, neither of us smokes or drink Alcohol or do illicit drugs, neither of us CHOOSE to have to be rushed into the ER at least once a year..
my birth mother smokes, its disgusting, she stinks, her clothes stink, her apartment stinks & I cannot go visit her, it is why i have both COPD & ASTHMA, I am 33, I am already facing a life filled with taking puffers & occasional need for oxygen treatments..
TAKE YOUR NASTY HABIT & STOP WHINING!! YOU CHOSE TO START, USUALLY ITS PEER PRESSURE AS TO WHY TEENS START SMOKING…
If your on social assistance, you should be kicked OFF if you smoke, why should tax payers pay for your ‘drug of choice’ that’s all cigarettes are, is a HABIT & ADDICTION & a horrific LEGAL DRUG..
The world does not revolve around you, Emily. I’m sure you have habits other people would find distasteful, maybe even disgusting. And, if you have all these horrible life-threatening conditions, how do you even walk down a street without being choked to death by the fumes of traffic and 18-wheelers? How do you go to a mall without keeling over when walking past someone with Axe cologne?? You may have to live in a box but most of us don’t. I’d say suck it up but you probably can’t.
TTFN… I gave up smoking, because my black Scottish heart refused to pay almost $5 a pack for the damn things … now they are up to 12 bucks .
The doctor has ordered me off the chicken fat (& the skin for that matter )
which really sucks … I now know thats where most of the damn flavor comes from ~:”(
Emily Green – yer problems are not mine or anyone elses. Just like mine are not yers ….I’d gladly take difficulties breathing over a fucked up heart, no energy, dizzyness, constant fatigue, 7 different meds 3 times a day, I miss one, within an hour, pressures rise, heart rate becomes eratic, If I forget to take them & don’t have access, i can stroke out …. about an hour before my meds come do, ringing starts in my head …. wanna see if we can do a trade ? Oh Yeah , I got 2 puffers as well a steriod one & the ventilin ! ! !
Stop whining you stund bitch it could be worse …after all you or I could have stage 4 liver cancer ! Now if that happens I’m fucking going to start smoking & drinking again …. just to enjoy a couple of minutes of indulgence, & to remind me if it was really as enjoyable as memory serves. Before finding out for myself exactly what happens after death .
OP, I’d suggest you design your own personal isolation tent, complete with eyeholes and oxygen tank. The tent pole will leave very few marks on the top of your head but won’t it be worth it????
As long as smoking is still legal, you can kvetch until your rubber hose cracks.
I think the issue is, TTFN, smokers who smoke where it ISN’T legal, not those who smoke where it is legal.
Like I said, I don’t care who smokes (except a partner — I’d never date a smoker), but when you get people smoking where the by laws clearly state they aren’t supposed to be smoking by law, then I have a problem. Smoking is legal — in CERTAIN places. In others it’s illegal. Just like public intoxication is illegal. Drinking is legal, but only in CERTAIN places.
All us non smokers ask for is for smokers to respect our RIGHT to breathe clean air, and most of you (not all) aren’t that good at that.
PK it doesn’t matter where a smoker smokes some ass will complain so fuck it. I don’t hear you bitching about vehicle exhaust. Again fuck it. Sometimes we smoke to get rid if all that overpowering perfume that men and women use.
The signs regarding smoking inside bus shelters and at terminals are there for a reason. Disregarding them is just plain selfish. I’m not the OP but I agree with this bitch. A smoker’s addiction does not trump a non-smoker’s right to breathe smoke-free air in areas that are designated non-smoking.
I can understand where yer coming from Oceanchick aka bikerchick.
But if the law is unfair & there are definate cases to point that out , like a deck outside, having a smoking & nonsmoking section
Then there should be in an outside bus shelter a smoking & nonsmoking section
Impartiality is suppose to be the backbone of our judicial system.
Clearly it is not doing so in this case & a shelter from rain with no doors, often missing a wall or 2 , walls that don’t even go all the way to the ground are In My Opinion just as well ventilated as a deck & if the law says there has to be a smoking & nonsmoking section …then damn it apply the law equally -period-
Fairness is open to interpretation, More. No smoking signs are not.
I’ve got a solution to that Oceanchick … Sorry Officer, I can’t read !
Aw thanks Hugo!
More, have you noticed the no smoking signs also have a graphic for those who can’t read or aren’t able to understand English.
You’re welcome Donk 🙂
A smokers shelter at all the terminals…not a bad idea at all. Until then, wait or go down wind.
More – “I’d gladly take difficulties breathing…”, you can’t be serious. Have you never had pneumonia? That’s something I don’t ever want to do again.
Well red lights aren’t open to interpretation either but you’re still going to have the odd asshole run em.
No Dear lady I have not …to be perfectly honest i don’t even notice smoking or nonsmoking signs . I don’t smoke & like all billboards & advertising my eye bleeps right on over them & my brain doesn’t even notice the ‘blip’ !
Yeah Hugo I’ve had Pnemonia , several different versions & pleursy was IMO the worst. I am also asthmatic with the (IMO ) stupidest type …cold induced asthma.
Which is a bit of a misnomer. When I go out into very cold air I very often have an asthma attack, once I settle down (usually after a hit or 2 of ventilin) & get over my shortness of breath, I can go on about my business …when I come inside I can & have had another attack , when the warm air triggers it !.
You have had the difficulty in breathing & found that tough ‘eh ?
You wanna try having your heart stop beating for a bit ….No F’in Comparison …absolutely NONE !
One of my coworker’s asked me why I didn’t call for help when I had my first one … L O L … yeah as the blackness closes in on you & yer dropping to the ground & losing consciousness , doing anything is not an option -period-
oh man, mr more, the bear had pleurisy many decades ago. it was brutal, for a while we thought it was his back but no, an inflammation of the lining of the lungs. nothing brings him down but that knocked him flat
I am a smoker and if I am waiting for a bus, I stand a distance away from the shelter or others waiting for the bus. If I am walking down the street and I pass a person,I don’t puff my cig and I move to the side. BUT if some self-righteous non-smoker starts that fake cough and huffing and hawing, I’ll blow my smoke right in their fucking face. Don’t like it? Don’t give a fuck. I don’t care about my own health, imagine how little I care about yours.
Well Paingirl … Sorry to hear yer significant other got hit with that … Mostly I remember the pain in trying to breath between coughing bouts & it got so bad I was coughing up blood. I had a chest xray that showed so many (what they thought were lesions of a dime size or better they did a biopsy to check to see if I had something else …. it was blood clots I was sick for weeks
I wouldn’t wish it on anyone,
outside the no smoking areas, you’ve got absolutely no leg to stand on op. But if you and some giant, mean looking dude are alone in a shelter at 3am and he’s blowing smoke in your general direction, i think the smart idea would be to nag him.
I’m not being smarmy.. i’m just asking how you propose to stop the shelter smokers without asking them to stop. That could be a nasty scene. Especially in dartmouth..