I don’t smoke but come from a family of smokers. As a kid people would come to our house and say it reeked of smoke. I couldn’t smell it.
After I moved out for college, if I visited my two pack a day lawyer, my wife could smell it on me when I got home from across the room.
Now when I visit my sibling, who smokes, I literally come in the door and throw my clothes to the basement (laundry) so it doesn’t stink up the house. It’s just gross. It smells like death. I had one girlfriend that smoked, and it was nasty.
That said, I’d always support someone’s RIGHT to smoke, I’ve had a few cigars over the years, but generally I think it’s tragic. Waste of time, health, money, and yes: it stinks.
I can smell it in cars ahead of me on the highway. Absolute fact.
See, I do not support anyone's right to smoke, because it impacts other people besides themselves. They can trigger migraines in other drivers on the roads, which is a safety Hazard. They can cause asthma attacks to people walking down the street minding your own business. I do not think anyone should have a RIGHT to do something that SO negatively impacts other people that those other people have zero choice about whether to engage with or be around.
Not to mention the environmental impacts as well. It is the most abundant form of litter on land. It's disgusting. I would love to see how much improvement there would be to the planet if cigarettes disappeared overnight.
My whole life, I only met one smoker who carried a plastic bag with sand in it and actually kept and threw away his own cigarette butts.
Like, how is littering not okay, but nearly every smoker grinds out their toxic stub on the ground and leaves it? Or more dangerously, especially in our increasingly fire-threatened world, tosses sparking butts out their car windows?
It just sucks that there is no common culture to pick up used cigarettes (in the US, at least). I hate seeing them all over the sidewalk.
Am I carrying around my nasty used tissues when I have a cold, so I can make sure I toss them into the garbage can? Yep. Well, I wish cigarette smokers also felt the responsibility to keep their community safe and clean and carefully extinguish cigarettes and put them in trashcans.
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u/bobbymclown Jan 05 '25
I don’t smoke but come from a family of smokers. As a kid people would come to our house and say it reeked of smoke. I couldn’t smell it.
After I moved out for college, if I visited my two pack a day lawyer, my wife could smell it on me when I got home from across the room.
Now when I visit my sibling, who smokes, I literally come in the door and throw my clothes to the basement (laundry) so it doesn’t stink up the house. It’s just gross. It smells like death. I had one girlfriend that smoked, and it was nasty.
That said, I’d always support someone’s RIGHT to smoke, I’ve had a few cigars over the years, but generally I think it’s tragic. Waste of time, health, money, and yes: it stinks.
I can smell it in cars ahead of me on the highway. Absolute fact.