Community Chat

[Mersha]

On 1/4/2014 Clover29 said:

On 1/4/2014 CardinalGirl_ said: I detest the smell of cigarettes and always have. I was never tempted to try it.

Me too. I could never understand how it increases your chance of smoking yourself, to have a smoking parent. My Dad smoked and I absolutely loathed it. I've always been a serious anti-smoker, mostly because I grew up in a household with smoke.

I hated when my father smoked when I was young. I am sorry that he subjected my mother and me to that. In those times the terrible things we know about cigarettes now was not available.

We lost him to emphysema.

If I smell anyone smoking, it makes me physically ill, even if outside.

To those that have smoked and quit, congratulations, you did a wonderful thing!

[gazelle77]

I quit cold turkey 25 years ago. So glad! Never looked back!

[gazelle77]

On 1/4/2014 EmmaBunting said:

I regret the 10 + years I smoked. Stupidest thing I ever did.

, I smoked 13 years and regret it as well....glad we both got wise!

[EmmaBunting]

On 1/4/2014 gazelle77 said:

On 1/4/2014 EmmaBunting said:

I regret the 10 + years I smoked. Stupidest thing I ever did.

, I smoked 13 years and regret it as well....glad we both got wise!

[brii]

I've never smoked. Never even tried it. Always hated how it smelled. I'm so glad you can't smoke in restaurants here anymore.

[GCR18]

I don't smoke and can't be around it.

[september]

No one in my immediate family or circle of friends smokes, and I'm grateful for that. I'm also very annoyed at all the people who park their cars in front of my house (I assume they're on their way to visit people who don't allow smoking) and throw their butts out the window for me to clean up. My impression of smokers is...they just aren't very clean people.

[brii]

Did you ever sit in a smoker's car? I don't know how they can stand it.

[SoX]

My sister-in-law smokes like a chimney ... always has from the time I met her. Her husband, a nonsmoker who quit smoking for 30 years, was diagnosed with lung cancer and died within three months of diagnosis. She's still smoking and is pathetically thin after breast cancer surgery.

She can't stay at our home anymore when she visits from out of town because she sneaks and smokes even though I've told her not to do it.

[Silver Lining]

Smokers are going to find a way to do it regardless of the rules. My office building used to have smoking and non-smoking break rooms. Those don't work, of course, because the smoke and odor whoosh out when the door is opened. Then the building banned smoking within the building so they went down to the Fed Ex and supply loading area, the downstairs reserved parking area or the patio for outside dining or hung around the doorways. don't work in that building anymore (thank goodness) but my former colleagues tell me the smokers have been told to stay out of the covered parking are and stay away from the entrances and patio. It really doesn't help too much. The other issue with smokers at work is they take a whole lot more breaks than anyone else. They take a lunch and coffee breaks like everyone else but then they're MIA a lot because they're outside smoking.