smokers are fucking disgusting

It goes without saying that i'm not a smoker, never have been, but i think smokers are disgusting. I know it's all personal choice etc. but who cares, your filthy habit affects my life so i'm allowed an opinion. Recently the indoor smoking ban came into force in the UK, and it's been great. I can go to the pub now without the risk of lung cancer, and without having to go home stinking. I actually quite enjoy watching the smokers huddled outside tugging on a fag in the rain. I actually saw some fella lose his seat because he went outside for a smoke.... brilliant. Anyway, that's removed one aspect of their filthy lifestyle from my life, but i'm writing about another aspect of the habit which i find grim. Working in the city, i see a lot of wealthy, well dressed people, obviously concerned with self appearance, happily throwing their fag ends and fag packets onto the floor like it's not even trash. For some reason cigarette ends are ok to lob on the floor, and some people even flick it in an arc, to maximise their 'cool'. The floor around my office is covered in fag butts and matches, it's grim. Put it in the bin. If i threw my sweet wrappers on the floor in an overtly casual gesture, i think people would take offence, i'd probably get a few comments, and rightly so. In Tokyo, littering is seen as the height of rudeness. As such the streets are completely clean, and you really notice.

So i'm calling on everyone here, if you do smoke, don't throw your fag ends on the floor, and if you don't smoke, pull people up on it. Be warned though, i saw a woman lob her fag into the street right in front of me, so i said 'you finished with that?'. She shot me a look like i'd told her to go fuck herself... I guess that's addicts for ya.

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[Anothercoilgun]

Smoking is infinitely stupid. But what will kill the 400,000 a year in its place? You have to admit that its a good population control.

The issue of smoking can be thought of from many views as in personal health, environmental, and impact on national health care. All of which have proven to be concrete. Yet, what is first above all, the highest concern, is the immediate effects on smoking victims, the naturally born right to breath descent air.

The human body is not fitted to inhale cigarette smoke. If common sense fails you, perhaps the hard for me to believe effort on your behalf to learn about the respiratory system or at least the reading of the works of others who have will knock some added sense into those needing this knocking. If the nearly endless charts, diagrams, X-rays, documentaries, campaigns, and images of IV totting voice box assisted smokers all which depict the harm of smoking fails to see the error of this way of the walk, then perhaps what follows is just the key to those needing this epiphany. Observe the very process of manufacturing cigarettes. All kinds of toxic chemicals and heavy elements are ADDED to the base of cigarettes to bypass the natural securities of the respiratory system. This is called freebasing. This alone should scare you. Remember all those big long multi part chemistry words in school also seen on the warning labels of house hold and industrial chemicals, well all those are inside cigarettes too. Then on top of all this another whole onslaught of chemical processes are used to mask the masks. All kinds of stuff necessary to just cover over the toxicity of the entire process as a whole. And for what? To brake down and bypass a humans natural defenses against a puff of cigarette! Now if all this is not the preponderance to convince anyone that I and all others who choose not to smoke but yet are regularly and unavoidably attacked from no fault of our own, then I must say I do not and I will not respect you in any way, shape, fashion, or form. You do not deserve respect.

Cigarette smoke is a chemical attack on the human body. Key point here, now listen up and read closely. The attack is unavoidable. Every where you walk, shop, work, and even sleep the non-smoking victims have no choice but to take the blows of the attack. Who gives a she-it about a smokers right, no one no where must have the right to violate the well being of others especially in an environment where this well being would naturally flourish indefinitely had it not been for the universally wrong act of a selfish few disrupting the lives of the many.

The worst is to have no choice but to be attacked in ones own home. Cigarette smoke has a long reach, is dynamic, lingers, and absorbs into the wall, furniture, and carpet of the unwilling. It actually smells different after traveling and passing through barriers. This lingering toxic annoying plum trumps other foul orders like burned popcorn or rotten food. You start to breath differently because the lungs sense something is not right. Once you become conscious of this all bets are off for actually focusing on things or having a god given right to rest unlabored. The source of the smoke can transpire over only a few minutes but the destination will remain submersed in this disgusting evil gas long after. I have more times than should ever exist been denied the ability to freely breath in my own home because some ones smoke has either traveled a long distance (yes it goes a long way) or made its way through walls and ceilings. Cigarette smoke permeates very well and too well if you ask me. Very unconceivable for a person to pick and move residence just because some other selfish person does not give a rats butt of others. No guaranty the next location will be any different. A victim can ask the offender to consider how they are causing lose of sleep, and degraded quality of life. The smoker of course cannot see how this is true. And if the smoker does miraculously stops or the even more unlikely event of doing what ever is necessary on the smoker's end to keep their stench strictly to themselves, then I applaud that one lucky victim. So how are the remaining victims of the world to protect themselves. We can keep car windows rolled up at stop signs. This works albeit once again a denial of control over ones own property. We can take a different route during walks, keep a good eye on smokers up the way and learn to divert our path while holding our breaths. This works albeit once again a denial of control over basic necessities. We can buy industrial high power air flow filters that kick into gear on detection of being attack at home. This could work albeit expensive, cold, and problematic in its own right. We can wear gas mask in our own homes so that we can experience the pleasure of our comfort in concert with whatever idiotic marketing mass hypnosis produced pleasure smokers are supposed to experience.

Did you get that key point I laboriously typed similar to how I and millions of others are without provocation forced to laboriously breath. Smoking is an attack. Smoking attacks victims in their own homes. Smoking attacks are unavoidable. Just like the laws protecting people from being violated and harassed regardless of location, these laws ought to extend to the violation and harassment of smoking be it private, public, who gives a phuawk.

[McDouche]

LOL! Cigarettes are the least of your worries today!

It's nice that people buy into this. Keeps the other stuff from coming to light.

My old man never smoked a day in his life. Yet he has COPD & Emphesyma from the chemicals in his workplace.

While cigs ARE avoidable, I can think of many things that are NOT.

In the end, smoker or not- you still die.
Your body ceases to function, your body putrifies into a puddle of goo to be eaten by insects & bacteria. Strangely enough, non-smokers die every day.

My grandfather never smoked either. It was fun to watch him die in a pair of diapers, with altzheimers eating away at his brain. Ol' grandad died at the age of 92, in a puddle of his own feces, in a care home for the elderly.

At least the smokers die early, avoiding the fun of old age.

[Jules]

I HATE SMOKERS! I have decided to fight them at their own game and smoke them out with disgusting smelling incense or sage. Anytime I see a smoker I am going to light that stuff and stink up the air. Let's see how they like other nasty smells