Bugged By Neighborhood Smokers

fureverywhere

fureverywhere

beloved friend who will always be with us in spiri
Location
Northern NJ, USA
Our bedroom is on the second floor. But the windows face two backyards. I haven't had a cigarette in more than ten years, hubby even longer than that. My son detests them. But the neighbors relax in their yards and smoke like chimneys. I just sprayed the curtains again. The house is so old any outside smells manage to sneak in somehow.

Weed, cigarillos...no problem. But when you don't smoke cigarettes anymore the smell is simply obnoxious.
 

The less you are around smoking the more it stinks. I quit 55 years ago.
 

I've never smoked. My husband switched from cigarettes to a pipe and smokes cherry blend. People actually tell him now nice it smells. I'd much rather have people smoke three cigarettes, get into a car and drive away, than have them drink three drinks and drive away. The local news promotes local breweries/taverns and tailgate parties where everyone drinks a lot and then goes home, but says second and third hand smoke is a killer. Go figure.
 
I smoke cigars, cigarette sized ones but I smoke them out my back window so as not to pollute my apt. with my birds and dogs and am far away from anyone to bother them.. I only take 7 puffs at a time.
 
I love the smell of cherry pipe tobacco. My grandfather smoked a pipe and my middle girl used to buy Black and Milds...same smell exactly...like a perfume of memory. Weed and well...every 70's concert you were ever at...it's nice. But Fuzzy, I understand, really I do, I still dream of Newports.
 
I haven't smoked in 23 years and I hate the smell. I went on a 3 day trip to Orkney last month with an online friend and I discovered she chain smoked. Well...when she could. She had to smoke on our porch, couldn't smoke in rental car, or hotel, or inside anywhere, even at the train station. But she smoked when we were outdoors everywhere we went and it made me gag!

I do, however, love the smell of cherry pipe tobacco, Fur.
 
I had a friend who said that when he smoked cherry pipe tobacco people would follow him around the mall and compliment him on it. That was before places started banning it. No matter what we do, someone always wants to tell us what not to do. I am glad there is no longer smoke in the work place and such. But outside, it disperses quickly, and telling someone they can't smoke outside is a violation of personal freedom.
 
Phoenix said:
I had a friend who said that when he smoked cherry pipe tobacco people would follow him around the mall and compliment him on it. That was before places started banning it. No matter what we do, someone always wants to tell us what not to do. I am glad there is no longer smoke in the work place and such. But outside, it disperses quickly, and telling someone they can't smoke outside is a violation of personal freedom.
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I have followed people who were smoking it! Reminds me of my grandpa.

In Scotland you can't smoke anywhere that someone works. This includes outside at train stations.
 
There are a lot of places in Oregon that are that way now too. Yet, you can drink outside and drive away. The tobacco lobby is not as strong as the one that controls drinking.
 
My dad smoked cherry blend pipe tobacco. Whenever I smell it, he's back again....

I get a big kick out of people who are smoking in their cars, but hold the cigarette out the window. If they don't like the cigarette smoke in their cars, why would they think everyone outside would want to smell it? <shaking head>
 
It's strange that smokers don't get it that smoking stinks. I did smoke at times and it never dawned on me that non-smokers could smell me coming.
BTW, I love "Perry Mason". You could tell who his sponsors were. If there lots of brand new Fords, well..... Ford. Next year, they were brand new Chevies, so...GM. Then when there were no cars, everybody was lighting cigarettes, like about 5-10 times a show.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I used to smoke- a lot. Newport menthol 100s. If I were told I had two weeks to live, I'd run out and buy a pack. I really enjoyed smoking. Even if they are a disgusting thing.
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I'm with you kid, as soon as I can see the finish line I'm going to start smoking again.

I quit about eight years ago using Chantix and I still crave a smoke from time to time. Sometimes when I'm at an outdoor event like the local flea market I catch a whiff of a cigarette and I'm tempted to follow the person so I can get a little secondhand smoke. Seems like everything in my life is secondhand!!!
 
I quit smoking a year ago in March. I rarely crave one but once in a huge while, I kinda feel like "something's missing". I know what it is and I know it will pass and it does, very quickly. I would never want to go back. Now that I'm finally retired, couldn't afford it, anyway.
 
Quit smoking, cold turkey, in 1985. Haven't had one since. And, as other posters have said, when the doc gives me 6 months to live I'll go buy some unfiltered Pall Malls or Camels and smoke up a storm. Yet, I cannot stand the smell of second hand smoke... or the odor left in homes, rooms, clothing, etc. I spend a lot of time in hotels. Recently, a hotel tried to put me in a smoking room. I told them I would not stay there if they didn't move me to the non-smoking room I had reserved. Of course, I had interrupted the desk clerk's cigarette break to check in and she was not in a good mood. Am currently staying in a smoke-free motel during the work week. That's really nice in that you don't get whiffs of people walking down the hall smoking.
As far as people smoking in their backyard, that is their personal property and it would be difficult to control. If I want to sit naked in my backyard, I imagine the police would be called. If I wanted to smoke cigarettes in my backyard, there is nothing anyone could do.
 
I would have been one of them ones with a trach and total heart failure...anyone have a lighter kidz? But the lozenges are methadone for me.
 
I loved it as well. Funny that a couple of you said if you were told you were going to die soon, you'd smoke again. That has occurred to me as well.
 

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