I really, really hate non-smokers
 

Amen!

I find the air fresheners far more annoying (and headache inducing) then smoke.

Air "freshners" are awful, they just pollute the air.

Air purifiers are completely noiseless and odourless, and work awesome for smoke smells. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/smug.gif

That's clearly not true. I'd have immunity to air fresheners.

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Have I gone crazy or is this thread literally prefixed with "PERSONAL" and directed at me?

HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA... a Troll whining about somebody trolling him. Deal with it. But stop with the personal insults. Somebody starting a thread complaining about non smokers is not a personal insult.
Your comments are.

And if you decide you want to retaliate with more threads... you will be restricted.

I'm not whining or complaining. It's you that waltzed in here with a cigarette up your ass and started ruining everyone's fun. Seriously.

He's a pathological liar. I can say that, because he doesn't post here. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/nod.gif

The person who needs to chill here is you. Honest to God. You deleted a ton of fun posts that harmed no one in a couple threads now and are slapping your **** around trying to antagonize me while ORDERING me to chill. What the ****, Ming. Go take a few minutes and chill.

What?

I was a non-smoker for a long time and I never minded the smell in bars either. Some people are just natural born whiners.

after they smoke, Sloww. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

At my building at work, a lot of people go up to the rooftop to smoke so they take the elevator constantly. And when someone stands next to you after they've smoked, they may as well be smoking right in the damn elevator for the duration of that journey...

Oooooooh. After. Ok. My mistake.

I remember the old days. Smoke in movie theaters. Smoke at work. Those were the days.
That's the problem now. You don't smell it enough, so it bothers you.
If you worked on a sheep ranch, you'd probably get used to the smell of sheepshit and not even notice it.

I have to say, in all seriousness, I recognize the sensitivity of others. I try to not impose more than necessary. Like at the Legion, talking to a non-smoker, move the ash tray to the other side of me. Don't blow smoke at them.
There's this one woman I know, though. Trying to quit. I'm going to pin her down and blow smoke in her face, just for meanness. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...milies/lol.gif

I'm all for this idea.

Unfortunately the rent in the gay village areas are astronomical, because they are so nice. The gays fix up every place of town that the prices go through the roof.

Right now I'm living next to all these straight ****ers. It's awful. When they're not hooting and hollering about hip-hop and R&B, they're smoking cigarettes and walking their 500 pound dogs they take in the elevator. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ons/icon13.gif

What I wouldn't give to live in an apartment building of only 20-something gay professionals...

One can dream...

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A good response http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

An outdoor stop? Or is it enclosed?

Seriously, the way smokers are treated is terrible. You can't smoke in your home, on the balcony, in a bar, at a bus stop, anywhere.

Are they supposed to go out into international waters or something?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/he...gewanted=print

January 3, 2009
A New Cigarette Hazard: ‘Third-Hand Smoke’
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Parents who smoke often open a window or turn on a fan to clear the air for their children, but experts now have identified a related threat to children’s health that isn’t as easy to get rid of: third-hand smoke.

That’s the term being used to describe the invisible yet toxic brew of gases and particles clinging to smokers’ hair and clothing, not to mention cushions and carpeting, that lingers long after second-hand smoke has cleared from a room. The residue includes heavy metals, carcinogens and even radioactive materials that young children can get on their hands and ingest, especially if they’re crawling or playing on the floor.

Doctors from MassGeneral Hospital for Children in Boston coined the term “third-hand smoke” to describe these chemicals in a new study that focused on the risks they pose to infants and children. The study was published in this month’s issue of the journal Pediatrics.

“Everyone knows that second-hand smoke is bad, but they don’t know about this,” said Dr. Jonathan P. Winickoff, the lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

“When their kids are out of the house, they might smoke. Or they smoke in the car. Or they strap the kid in the car seat in the back and crack the window and smoke, and they think it’s okay because the second-hand smoke isn’t getting to their kids,” Dr. Winickoff continued. “We needed a term to describe these tobacco toxins that aren’t visible.”

Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’”

The study reported on attitudes toward smoking in 1,500 households across the United States. It found that the vast majority of both smokers and nonsmokers were aware that second-hand smoke is harmful to children. Some 95 percent of nonsmokers and 84 percent of smokers agreed with the statement that “inhaling smoke from a parent’s cigarette can harm the health of infants and children.”

But far fewer of those surveyed were aware of the risks of third-hand smoke. Since the term is so new, the researchers asked people if they agreed with the statement that “breathing air in a room today where people smoked yesterday can harm the health of infants and children.” Only 65 percent of nonsmokers and 43 percent of smokers agreed with that statement, which researchers interpreted as acknowledgement of the risks of third-hand smoke.

The belief that second-hand smoke harms children’s health was not independently associated with strict smoking bans in homes and cars, the researchers found. On the other hand, the belief that third-hand smoke was harmful greatly increased the likelihood the respondent also would enforce a strict smoking ban at home, Dr. Winickoff said.

“That tells us we’re onto an important new health message here,” he said. “What we heard in focus group after focus group was, ‘I turn on the fan and the smoke disappears.’ It made us realize how many people think about second-hand smoke — they’re telling us they know it’s bad but they’ve figured out a way to do it.”

The data was collected in a national random-digit-dial telephone survey done between September and November 2005. The sample was weighted by race and gender, based on census information.

Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician who heads the Children’s Environmental Health Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said the phrase third-hand smoke is a brand-new term that has implications for behavior.

“The central message here is that simply closing the kitchen door to take a smoke is not protecting the kids from the effects of that smoke,” he said. “There are carcinogens in this third-hand smoke, and they are a cancer risk for anybody of any age who comes into contact with them.”

Among the substances in third-hand smoke are hydrogen cyanide, used in chemical weapons; butane, which is used in lighter fluid; toluene, found in paint thinners; arsenic; lead; carbon monoxide; and even polonium-210, the highly radioactive carcinogen that was used to murder former Russian spy Alexander V. Litvinenko in 2006. Eleven of the compounds are highly carcinogenic.

That's all fine and good if they're not in the Gulf. Trying to smoke against a tidal wave of illegals? Or Florida, and the Cubans.

Lies they tell you on Calgary Puck.

My grandson doesn't smoke; AND, I don't smoke around him.