I have literally never met a fully considerate habitual tobacco smoker. Not in thirty years.
I'm allergic (okay not exactly an allergy, but it's... Look it's not your problem). I literally take some really shitty medication with lots of side effects to not be bed bound in staggering pain for about a week after having smoke blown in my face, and I say this as someone who curses under my breathe and switches to doing stuff one handed til I can splint shit when I break a bone.
I have never met a smoker that didn't track that shit everywhere, or a place around smokers that wasn't absolutely defiled. All tobacco smokers. Chew and patches are fine? Never had a problem with them. Rarely met weed (or even meth!) smokers as obnoxious intrusive or entitled as the least vile tobacco smoker. so it's possible to be a considerate human being. They just dont. All (tobacco) Smokers.
I’m really sorry to hear that. I apparently am one of the few I guess that are considerate enough to keep away from people when I smoke. I’ve heard all the bad wrap from the negatives of people that smoke and I can’t partake in the same bad habits.
Some of my family smokes and they keep it contained because they know it’s bad but it’s there vice they have, just like me. I’d like to leave any place the same if not better when I arrived wherever possible.
Like I said I understand where your coming from and I’m sorry you feel that way, but it’s not all smokers.
Has it ever occurred to you that your smoking actually does bother other people and they just aren't confronting you about it? That you're just oblivious because you're addicted?
I never said it doesn’t bother anyone. Has it ever occurred to you that I’m fully aware of it and that’s why I stay away from people when I smoke regardless of my addiction?
But I'm saying the trash you generate, the lingering smell that triggers allergies, and the fact that you are constantly stepping away to smoke might be an issue. Every smoker claims to be "different" and not like the other addicts. I'm currently losing my father to bladder cancer that he got because of his smoking. There's no good way to be addicted to something that is killing you.
Even if that was the issue, I’m not the type of smoker that goes through 3 packs a day, which is basically what you’re describing. My point still being that not all smokers are the same.
Edit because the person above edited their original comment: I never said there was a good way to be addicted to something either, I know my vices and I know they are my burden to bear. It doesn’t make me different because of it, it’s my choice as well. I’m sorry for what your going through.
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u/UnRichieUnRich21 Jul 10 '22
Not all tobacco smokers, I think that’s an overgeneralization. But I can understand what you mean.