I really, really hate non-smokers

[Unimatrix11]

Well, in any ratio that could be called ´random´, i guess, it´s not that bad. But if you get only hit on by persons that definetaly do not belong to your ´target-group´, it does get annoying, trust me.

But we are getting off topic... which was smoking. Being hit on by ´the wrong´ people was merely meant as a comparision (and wasnt a good one, agreed), like: I find having to go out for each smoke more annoying as internet pop-ups. And winter is like a free porn site in that regard: You really dont want to go there, but sometimes you kinda have to...

[rah]

The weird thing is, I went to visit my daughter at school and we went out to a bar. It's was the first time I had been in a party type bar since I quit smoking and smoking was banned in bars. I was disgusted and actually got a touch ill. BECAUSE, since there was no smoking I could finally smell everything that the cigarette smoke was covering up before. Human BO, cheap perfume or the male equivalent, urine, vomit, and stale beer. It was disgusting and heaven forbid if you had to go to the bathroom. While in the bar I mentioned that to a lot of my daughter's friends parents. (it was dad's day weekend) They all said about the same thing and wished they still allowed smoking even though they didn't. When I got home I mentioned it to some of my younger employees and they pretty much agreed with me. So while I can live with the no smoking in resturants and the local pubs, they should alow it in large packed party bars. Besides if they do that I'd go to them more often and pretend I was still smoking.

[Asher]

The weird thing is, I went to visit my daughter at school and we went out to a bar. It's was the first time I had been in a party type bar since I quit smoking and smoking was banned in bars. I was disgusted and actually got a touch ill. BECAUSE, since there was no smoking I could finally smell everything that the cigarette smoke was covering up before. Human BO, cheap perfume or the male equivalent, urine, vomit, and stale beer. It was disgusting and heaven forbid if you had to go to the bathroom. While in the bar I mentioned that to a lot of my daughter's friends parents. (it was dad's day weekend) They all said about the same thing and wished they still allowed smoking even though they didn't. When I got home I mentioned it to some of my younger employees and they pretty much agreed with me. So while I can live with the no smoking in resturants and the local pubs, they should alow it in large packed party bars. Besides if they do that I'd go to them more often and pretend I was still smoking.

Sounds to me like Chicago's reputation as a dirty, disgusting city is well-earned.

[Blaupanzer]

Non-smokers appear to have completely bought into the second-hand smoke theory despite the enormous scientific holes in that theory in practice. "Third-hand" smoke is insane. Why are all those elements in cigarettes in the first place? Lo and behold, most cigarettes don't contain that nonsense. As to the smell, most old downtown apartment buildings smell like garbage and urine. (See discussions related to New York City.) Compared to those, cigarette smoke is not so bad.

[Asher]

non-smokers appear to have completely bought into the second-hand smoke theory despite the enormous scientific holes in that theory in practice.

lol

[Grandpa Troll]

The weird thing is, I went to visit my daughter at school and we went out to a bar. It's was the first time I had been in a party type bar since I quit smoking and smoking was banned in bars. I was disgusted and actually got a touch ill. BECAUSE, since there was no smoking I could finally smell everything that the cigarette smoke was covering up before. Human BO, cheap perfume or the male equivalent, urine, vomit, and stale beer. It was disgusting and heaven forbid if you had to go to the bathroom. While in the bar I mentioned that to a lot of my daughter's friends parents. (it was dad's day weekend) They all said about the same thing and wished they still allowed smoking even though they didn't. When I got home I mentioned it to some of my younger employees and they pretty much agreed with me. So while I can live with the no smoking in resturants and the local pubs, they should alow it in large packed party bars. Besides if they do that I'd go to them more often and pretend I was still smoking.

rah if your not concerned with your health..~cough-hack-flem-induced wheez~ then for gods sake man, think about that rat-rodent-wanna-B Tasmanian Devilchild poor ferret of yours

He doesnt have a vote in injesting smoke, you do




Just give clean air a chance brother, if not for you, for those you love, that second hand sloke could harm ASHER , now just how would you feel then?

I'll tell ya, you couldn't look MING in the eyes is how, knowing you hurt-tedd him...

Thanks and glad we had this chat

[rah]

Sounds to me like Chicago's reputation as a dirty, disgusting city is well-earned.

Which might be also true but as stated I was visiting my daughter at school and she doesn't go to school in CHICAGO. She goes to school in [insert city where you live]

[Asher]

Toronto is a dirty city. No argument here.

[rah]

And Chicago can stand on it's own in that regard, but I have to think that college party bars are worse than those in big cities. People that work for a living have a higher standards when it comes to puking.

One bar that I was in on campus had a bathroom that was basically an concrete octagon with one urinal on each wall and a drain in the center of the floor. Every hour or so someone would go in and just hose it down. I have to give them credit, it was the cleanest bathroom I was in all weekend.

[Cort Haus]

Anti-smoking hysteria is a major cause of smug, mmmkay?

[Boris Godunov]

Non-smokers appear to have completely bought into the second-hand smoke theory despite the enormous scientific holes in that theory in practice.

Where's the hole in the "theory" that it's a danger to one's health to be exposed to proven carcinogens?

[Cavalcadeus]

I don't smoke too much, but since I live with non-smokers, I'll go out front, out on the balcony (of a house, not apartments), or for a drive when i want to light up.
I live in an area of town thats pretty well all student housing. The thing that gets me about non-smokers is that so many of them will come up to me while I'm smoking and start to preach the dangers of smoking. I've been called names enough times too. I chalk that up to the smugness of some of the types of kids I've met at the University, but I still can't believe when it happens. What happened to minding you're own ****ing business?
Not sure if its like that in all cities, but I'm from a fairly rural area and I've never seen it happen back there. Alot more of my friends back home are smokers than here though, so maybe its just more accepted in small places.

[Asher]

To be fair, when someone sees a young person smoking there are two possibilities: they don't know it's bad for you, or they are incredibly stupid.

You should be happy they didn't think you were stupid.

[Boris Godunov]

Wouldn't you have to be incredibly stupid to not know that smoking is bad for you at this point?

[Asher]

Wouldn't you have to be incredibly stupid to not know that smoking is bad for you at this point?

No, just incredibly inattentive. Perhaps this person lives in a "town" like Kingston, for instance. If it's not written on a beer can, they don't know it.