Anonymous #1 said:

Being polite about asking people to stop smoking around you.

How do you do it?

Or do I just need to leave every time somebody lights up around me?

I HATE cigarette smoke. Does that make me a hater?

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Anonymous #19 said:

I can appreciate someone that asks me nicely for me NOT to smoke around them
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All he had to do was ask me to put the cigarette out...
and I would have

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you'll have to excuse me for that one, but I come from a holier-then-thou family that cracks down on me every time I go out every coupla weeks to have a beer (like my getting a good buzz on is somehow effecting their health) so I tend to get a bit defensive towards others who are scoffing at the rest of us for what we do to our bodies

...now...

I'll admit that cigarette smoke IS toxic to others within the immediate vicinity, and it IS disrespectful to them as well...and I'll even go so far as to say that people probably shouldn't be dicks about it either (as we often times are) but I, myself, have often times been on the receiving end of this argument, and I know all too well how frustrating it can be to have someone get their knickers ina twist because of it

it's one thing to be in a situation like that, and ask the person who is smoking to try not to blow it in you direction, and be satisfied with them just simply switching hands / moving the ashtray / whatever ...BUT... it's a whole nother ballgame if you expect em to put it out all together and apologize for polluting your air

you can't stop these people from poisoning their own damn bodies, and you can't expect em to toss their entire evening out the window just because their idea ofa 'good time' doesn't coincide with yours...cause a lot of these people see it as YOU'RE the one being disrespectful by dictating what they do with their time



the only point I was trying to make is that we live in a give-n-take sorta world guy...and that you can't expect these people to give up on something that's so much a part of who they are while you're in the area, any more then they can expect you not to bitch about it

    * there will always be people that smoke
    * and there will always be people that don't
    * the ones that don't aren't going to want to be exposed to it
    * anymore then the the ones that do are going to want to hear about it

so they avoid eachother when they can...and ignore eachother when they can't



you can't change them any more then they can change you...and it's as simple as that really 

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