Don't you just hate that? Other people's cigarette smoke

Bretrick said:
Opened my back door last night and my place filled with the stench of my neighbour's cigarette smoke
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Our neighbours are too far away for that. Occasionally Iā€™ll smell a cigarette or joint but not enough that it bothers me. Itā€™s just a hint of a scent.

Light a wooden match. The sulphur and flame will get rid of the scent and quickly.
 
The price of cigarettes in the UK, very few people can afford to smoke! I know some people who vape but, I don't know many who actually smoke cigarettes. At one time, there used to be groups of office staff outside buildings smoking but, even that seems to be a thing of the past now although, of course, they may all be still working from home.
 
I went to the pub garden a while back, it's a big garden, and we sat down to eat.

Just then I got a whole mouthful of second hand smoke into my throat from a woman sitting in front of us who I'd not noticed before we sat down, ..I nearly threw up.... I insisted we move to a complete other side of the pub garden..:sick:

Now that same pub has a no smoking area..
 
In the 13 years since I quit smoking I've only smelled it maybe twice, but I can't honestly recall when the last time I smelled tobacco smoke.

I am a rabid anti-smoke guy though, when I watch a movie or show from the 50 or 60s I can't believe how much smoking takes place in virtually each scene. The cigarette companies pushed smoke-smoke-smoke in entertainment back then.
 
When we first started to get concerned about second hand smoke our office set a rule that we could only smoke on the hour and not all day, as we had been used to doing. You should have seen the smoke fill that office every hour on the hour. Then they decided that was not a good thing so they set up a room where we could go smoke. It had its own ventilation. You should have smelled that room! I am a former smoker. It's hard to believe what we used to do.
 
Lilac said:
It doesn't matter if the smoke is from cigars, joints or cigarettes, I can't tolerate it & I start to have breathing problems.
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I cannot abide the smell of weed... it's got to be the most repulsive smell over and above cigarettes and tobacco... It's horrible standing in a checkout queue.. and the respectable looking person standing next to you.. Stinks of weed..:sick: their hair stinks..their clothes are disgusting .. their houses and furniture must absolutely reek... *ugh*...
 
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Well, I smoked for 30+ years before I quit, so cigarette smoke doesn't bother me.
I agree with Nathan about the smoking in the '50s & '60s on TV. People had boxes of loose cigarettes on their coffee tables for guests. I worked in the last bastion of smoking- a psych. ward. Supposedly cigarettes kept everybody calm. While most of the nation went smoke free, we kept smoking for a long time.
One thing- I decided to wash down the walls of my place, long after I quit. It went from dark and dingy to bright and clean looking. At the time, it didn't bother me what cigarettes were doing to me.
After I quit, I got cancer of the urine bladder, which is somewhat common after quitting. It was removed.
 
I do hate being accosted by others' cigarette smoke. My husband was so sensitive to it that we couldn't go into places that allowed smoking...at all. Once restaurants starting having non smoking sections, if the smoking and non smoking areas were too close together, we couldn't eat there. Now so many places don't allow smoking and that's nice.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Well, I smoked for 30+ years before I quit, so cigarette smoke doesn't bother me.
I agree with Nathan about the smoking in the '50s & '60s on TV. People had boxes of loose cigarettes on their coffee tables for guests. I worked in the last bastion of smoking- a psych. ward. Supposedly cigarettes kept everybody calm. While most of the nation went smoke free, we kept smoking for a long time.
One thing- I decided to wash down the walls of my place, long after I quit. It went from dark and dingy to bright and clean looking. At the time, it didn't bother me what cigarettes were doing to me.
After I quit, I got cancer of the urine bladder, which is somewhat common after quitting. It was removed.
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I've read that.. that Bladder cancer is very common among smokers.. people are not educated so much about cancers other than lung cancer for smokers..

My parents smoked a pack a day each, in the house, it never would have occurred to them to smoke in the garden..
 
OneEyedDiva said:
I do hate being accosted by others' cigarette smoke. My husband was so sensitive to it that we couldn't go into places that allowed smoking...at all. Once restaurants starting having non smoking sections, if the smoking and non smoking areas were too close together, we couldn't eat there. Now so many places don't allow smoking and that's nice.
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I can't think of anywhere here that permits smoking now... so it's always a bit of a shock if I'm walking along the road and suddenly someone in front of me second hand smoke comes behind them and all over me...*ugh*
 
hollydolly said:
I can't think of anywhere here that permits smoking now... so it's always a bit of a shock if I'm walking along the road and suddenly someone in front of me second hand smoke comes behind them and all over me...*ugh*
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They still allow smoking in some parts of the casinos which I was surprised to find out. I don't see many people smoking outside anymore, now that I think of it. I did pass a man last week though. Another thing about smokers...they litter. They'll throw their cigarette butts down anywhere. I hate seeing people litter.
 
I cannot stand it. It makes my head hurt, my eyes water and I get stuffed up for the whole day. I have no choice but to put up with it. People in my apartment building smoke. They have 2 picnic tables outside and they gather there to smoke (they cannot smoke inside the building). It stinks up the air outside and to leave the building I have to walk through it.

I used to like that first step outside the door in the fresh air, but if they are out there now all I smell is smoke. I now carry a mask with me so if I smell it on the elevator or outside I can put that on. It does help me. Another bad thing is my son smokes so when he comes to my apartment I smell it on him. I end up hurrying him out and on his way instead of spending extra time with him.
 

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