You know, I'm aware that there's the whole personal choice thing?

[lyssie]

But I am so fucking tired of opening a window and choking on cigarette smoke. I am so fucking tired of walking into work and being choked by the smokers who have their little place by the doors where they destroy their lungs.

All I want is the window open, so I can feel the breeze. But I can't do that because of the fucking smokers.

Comments

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

Yeah you know there's a personal choice thing sure. But I didn't make a personal choice to inhale a pile of disgusting smoke just because I need to walk in a certain door.

So, you know, WORD.

[cynthia-arrow.livejournal.com]

They had to make campus-wide rules at my school to restrict smoking within a certain number of feet of entrances. I don't think that's crazy. I wish more places would do that, because it's my choice not to breathe it in.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Most places here have to have smoking areas away from the doors and air intakes. But my workplace is next to a cafe where the owners sit outside all day and smoke. If a customer wants the table out the front, they go out to the back verandah, making sure that all my possible exits are contaminated.

Cigarette smoke (especially stale smoke covered up by alcohol-based perfume) is a migraine trigger for me, so while I agree that adults should be allowed to do what they want, PLEASE DO IT THE HELL AWAY FROM ME!

[antiwesley.livejournal.com]

fortunately, the wind is blowing the right way so all the smokers who live around me are being blown away.

If it weren't for the drunk people across the street with their PA system blasting music, it would have been a good afternoon...
(worked on the garden)

[thatpalebluedot.livejournal.com]

Hell. Yes.

You have a right to smoke? I have a right to BREATHE! It's like walking through a fucking minefield--gosh, will I have a debilitating asthma attack or migraine today? Let's play smoking-roulette!

[star-lace.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on this. One of the reasons I had to move out of my dorm after only a month was because of the frakking smoke. We couldn't open our windows and the hallway always reeked because the windows were always open. And I had to walk through a crowd of smokers and their smoke every single time I wanted to enter my building because they're allowed to smoke 20 feet from the door (which is pretty much right in front of it). I don't give a shit about the whole "smoker's rights" side of this. When someone's vice affects my health, they lose their right to do it wherever the fuck they please as far as I'm concerned.

[ness-va.livejournal.com]

I'm all for personal choice. But smokers affect others and I don't really care if anyone is offended by that. I have allergies and am sensitive to that stuff and am always sneezing on other peoples fumes on my way to work and so on. I wish smoking in public places was illegal. Go kill yourself in your own homes, don't make me smell you as you do it.

[acetal.livejournal.com]

So very much agreed on this. Smokers who light up (or chain smoke, even!) in crowded concerts really piss me off. If you're going to do that, you can fuck off. No, really.

Over the years, my lungs have become sensitised to cigarette smoke and it doesn't take much to drive me into a coughing fit that makes me want to vomit.

[brookiki.livejournal.com]

This. You can't separate out a smoker's right to smoke from someone else's right to breath air that isn't contaminated by smoke. Since breathing smokey air has a negative effect on a lot of people (and can even be life threatening to some), then I'm completely okay with infringing upon the smoker's right to choose to do something that negatively affects the people around them.

[amaresu]

That is just rude. Don't smoke by doors and windows, it's not that fucking hard to understand.

--bitter, polite, smoker.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Either the UK has stricter laws as to what an employer can make his workers do or we are more bidable but just before I retired from work the total ban on smoking in the work place was brought in. The Borough librarian told up that those that smoked could go outside to have a cigaret in their coffee and lunch breaks but they must be no closer to the libraries than 15 feet from the library to ensure no smke would enter the library and the smokers obeyed her. Can't your employers do the same?

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

Right on.

[curlyjo1.livejournal.com]

They have a right to smoke, but we should have the right to put a fishbowl over their heads so they keep their smoke.