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are you offended by tobacco smoke

offended by tobacco smoke

  • I hate cigarette smoke

    Votes: 19 28.8%

  • I hate cigar smoke

    Votes: 8 12.1%

  • I hate pipe smoke

    Votes: 9 13.6%

  • I love cigarette smoke

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • I love pipe tobacco smoke

    Votes: 7 10.6%

  • I love cigar smoke

    Votes: 4 6.1%

  • I hate all three

    Votes: 18 27.3%

  • I love all three

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Can't we all just get along

    Votes: 21 31.8%

  • other

    Votes: 15 22.7%
  • Total voters
    66
beerftw said:
Are you offended by tobacco smoke. I myself am a smoker, But I hate the smell of most cigars except backwoods cigars, tolerate cigarette smoke except pall malls and kools which make me want to vomnit, and love the smell of pipe tobacco like captain black and prince albert.

I have cut back to one pack a day during the workweek and 3-6 cigarettes on the weekend while instead pipe smoking, I have grown to the point I tolerate cigarette smoke but do not like it, but absolutely hate pall mals. My coworker chain smokes them, and blows the smoke into my bay like he thinks everyone loves it. I used to smoke pall malls but I could not smell em while smoking them.


Now that I know what they smell like, I wish I had a time machine to travel back and apologize to everyone for making them smell awefull pall mall smoke.
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Tobacco is a pleasant pass time, but it's an occasional habit that I gave up years ago. Tobacco smoke doesn't really offend me, although cheap tobacco usually smells pretty awful.
 
beerftw said:
I was smoking two packs a day, and am trying to cut it to zero. Not trying to quit smoking all tobacco, I enjoy the taste too much, but do not need a cigarette twice an hour or so or more. I love the taste of tacos too, like to eat them every once in a while, but if I needed to run to taco bell 20 times a day I would want to quit tacos as well.
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I wish you luck in your endeavor. I too enjoy the taste of tobacco, but smoking two cigarettes an hour demolish the pleasure you derive from the act, and as you said, it really devalues any pleasurable activity. Back in the days when I smoked regularly, I'd overdo it in a stressful day and smoke half a pack. I tell you, by the end of the day, I'd get to the point of feeling absolute repulsion to tobacco and that I'd never smoke again.
 
limelight66 said:
I don't heavy second hand smoke nor cigarette smoke but am not offended by it. I enjoy a fine cigar now and then and do like the aroma of a good cigar or pipe.

What I am offended by is the ignorance of those who support smoking bans. I understand that there are a LOT of people who don't like smoke and find it disgusting. I get it.

What I don't get is the tolerance that so many people have of our state and city governments enforcing smoking bans and sticking their noses into privately owned businesses, telling them what they can or can't do in their own businesses. This is where the ignorance I mentioned above applies. Now if second hand smoke is so bad for us why don't they just ban tobacco and make it an illegal substance. In fact why don't they ban alcohol? After all second hand drinking is far more dangerous than second hand smoke.

Some may scoff at that comment but think about it: which is a greater danger to an innocent person's health or safety? A smoky bar in which you can leave or just simply not go to? Or a couple of drunk drivers on the road? Which creates a greater danger to innocent people?

Now I'm certainly not suggesting banning alcohol but the ignorance and double standards we tolerate in our society will never cease to amaze me.
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Second hand drinking is not dangerous to nearly as many people and can be stopped through other means. And a person can easily stay off the road during certain hours and greatly reduce their chances of being killed by a drunk driver. Or they could take the keys from someone who they know has been drinking.


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Why do so many concern themselves only with the smell of tobacco smoke as the determining factor? I hate breathing smoke, regardless of the source , because of the negative effects it has on me biologically. It's nasty stuff which our natural instinct instructs us to avoid. Yet for years smokers have had no problem engaging in self destructive behaviour and forcing it on me by polluting my air space....that's just wrong.
 
roguenuke said:
Second hand drinking is not dangerous to nearly as many people and can be stopped through other means. And a person can easily stay off the road during certain hours and greatly reduce their chances of being killed by a drunk driver. Or they could take the keys from someone who they know has been drinking.


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Suggesting we stay off the roads during certain hours is asinine. There are dangers everywhere. There are consequences for decisions we make. In other words it is my own personal responsibility (and yours too) to avoid an environment that might be bad for my health. It should not be my local government's responsibility. I understand people just plain don't like the smoke, and with good reasons. But business owners should be allowed run their businesses as they wish whether it be allowing smoking or refusing to bake a cake.


Which is a greater danger an innocent civilian? A drunk driver blowing a red light or a smoky bar that you can easily leave.
 
limelight66 said:
Suggesting we stay off the roads during certain hours is asinine. There are dangers everywhere. There are consequences for decisions we make. In other words it is my own personal responsibility (and yours too) to avoid an environment that might be bad for my health. It should not be my local government's responsibility. I understand people just plain don't like the smoke, and with good reasons. But business owners should be allowed run their businesses as they wish whether it be allowing smoking or refusing to bake a cake.


Which is a greater danger an innocent civilian? A drunk driver blowing a red light or a smoky bar that you can easily leave.
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Yes there are dangers everywhere but your biggest risk of being hit by a drunk driver comes during the evenings or late nights.

In pure numbers, the smoker. Smoking kills too. And it's numbers are higher.

And no one gets charged for smoking in public (it's generally a fine if anything, and that's usually applied to someone else, so you might get kicked out of someplace so that they aren't fined). Drunk driving though gets you far worse punishment. Something doesn't have to be at the same number of deaths to be something to make laws against especially when there is easily a difference in the punishments of those.

You can't argue that it's not government's place to keep you safe from smoke but is their place to keep you safe from drunk drivers or those who are "drunk in public" (which is a much higher punishment than smoking in a bar).

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beerftw said:
Are you offended by tobacco smoke. I myself am a smoker, But I hate the smell of most cigars except backwoods cigars, tolerate cigarette smoke except pall malls and kools which make me want to vomnit, and love the smell of pipe tobacco like captain black and prince albert.

I have cut back to one pack a day during the workweek and 3-6 cigarettes on the weekend while instead pipe smoking, I have grown to the point I tolerate cigarette smoke but do not like it, but absolutely hate pall mals. My coworker chain smokes them, and blows the smoke into my bay like he thinks everyone loves it. I used to smoke pall malls but I could not smell em while smoking them.


Now that I know what they smell like, I wish I had a time machine to travel back and apologize to everyone for making them smell awefull pall mall smoke.
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I am a cigar smoker. I find cigarette smoke highly disagreeable, especially in close quarters or without adequate ventilation.


This may seem hypocritical but it isn't any sort of issue of principle, it's just that cigarette smoke bothers me and seems to be more noxious. I can't smoke them anymore either.

I only smoke cigars that are all natural tobacco including wrapper... perhaps it is the burning paper that bothers me, or the chemicals commonly used in processing cigarette tobacco, I don't know.
 
Goshin said:
I only smoke cigars that are all natural tobacco including wrapper... perhaps it is the burning paper that bothers me, or the chemicals commonly used in processing cigarette tobacco, I don't know.
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I have a feeling today's cigarettes are not your father's cigarettes. I grew up with a father who smoked Camels and I don't ever remembering them bothering me.

But now days when I smell cigarette smoke I feel like someone is putting an oil soaked rag over my face. They say there are over 4,000 chemicals in a cigarette and that may explain it.
 
I personally get an allergic reaction when I smell cigarette smoke. I do NOT get that reaction if the person is using tobacco that they ground from their own leaves, or some of the 'all natural' tobacco products that get promoted.
 
Goshin said:
I am a cigar smoker. I find cigarette smoke highly disagreeable, especially in close quarters or without adequate ventilation.
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As I was and am occasionally since early '90s. I am not proud of it.
 
I don't hate the smokers. Sometimes they are people who have tried to quit smoking and just plain are addicted. when my mother-in-law (who was a chain smoker) passed away from CPD, we must have cleaned out 50 ashtrays from her house. Doing that made me nearly militantly angry with tobacco companies. It makes me sad to see so many young people smoking.

I'm very grateful that smoking is no longer allowed in our state's restaurants and public places. Personally, I have trouble breathing with Tobacco smoke in the air, and it irritates my contact lenses.
 
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