To get really angry when someone blows their dirty smoke in my face?!

[lollypoplady]

I hate it when I'm walking along the road with my kids and there is someone smoking blowing their dirty fag smoke without caring who else is going to have to inhale it. If i walked around with a foul smelling carcinogenic aerosol and sprayed it in random peoples faces I think I would probably get pulled up on it, right?

I think you'll find that most of the food, water and oxygen you ingest has been inside other people at one point or another (albeit in perhaps a slightly different form). So that as a justification for your over-the-top vitriol is a tad silly ...

I also completely disagree with the view that personal cars are somehow a necessary evil. I don't have a car and I survive just fine, something I'm sure applies to a significant majority of those on the road.

And I say all this as a non-smoker ...

Apologies for not running to jump on the typical anti-smoking bandwagon, but it's just a form of lazy bullying that people are worryingly seeing as more and more acceptable. In fact, why don't we just round them up, exterminate them with an overload of carbon monoxide and benzene rings in an airless room and be done with it(?)

Just because car fumes are present on the street doesn't mean getting a lungful of someone else's smoke isn't disgusting. They don't plume directly into your face like you get when you're walking behind a smoker. If it happens to me, it's not like I dance around yelling at the person to stop smoking - I appreciate they're allowed to do it in public. But I am also allowed to absolutely hate getting a faceful of smoke. And it's not the same as some diffused car fumes - it's smoke going straight towards you at face height. Not the same thing at all.

YANBU

And I really don't get why the old chestnut about transport is dragged out every time, from a small minority who seek to justify the disgusting pollution which is cigarette smoke.

Using a car is essential for some people.

I would quite happily walk to work if it wasn't 20 miles away.

Oh and I'd very happily use the bus (although of course, that produces pollution too. Unfortunately the first bus isn't until 8.30 and I need to leave for work at 7.10

Therefore I drive my small, as economical as possible, car.

I agree that people who make unecessary journeys in huge great tanks of cars are selfish and irresponsible - but frankly, anyone with half a brain cell realises that fuel costs are such that it's bloody idiotic to drive a larger car than you need on and do non essential journeys.

So - there is a need for cars, buses, trains, planes - though I entirely agree that it isn't as many as are on the roads/rails/in the sky

There is no need for anyone to smoke, and if they do, they should keep their smoke to themself.

To put simply, many journeys by car or bus are essential. It's a case of trying to minimize the effects (eg by making it less acceptable to drive huge gas guzzlers) and then weighing up the benefits of the transport (eg being able to get to work) with the effects of pollution.

Show me an 'essential' smoker - someone who who had no choice but to take up this polluting habit.

YANBU. I hate it when I'm walking behind someone and the wind blows their smoke back in my face. The smell makes me feel sick! Sure, I could cross the road but it's a PITA if I'm trying to get somewhere that's on that side of the road.

It also pisses me off when I'm stood at the bus stop and there's someone stood there smoking. It's not like I can go andstand somewhere else - I NEED to catch the bus. I know that breathing it in isn't going to kill me but it annoys me that it's invading my space!

I admit that it's a subject that I probably am unreasonable about, TBH. Probably because at aged 13 I watched my Dad die of lung cancer from heavy smoking. I wished they'd ban cigarettes all together but it'll never happen.

I don't understand why non smokers have to just get "over it" its only a bit of smoke to smokers...BECAUSE YOU SMOKE.

Some people really don't like it. It makes me feel ill. WHy do I always have to move when a smoker sits next to me at the bus stop it isn't fair. I wouldn't spray a load of perfume next to someone because the smell is offensive.

Dh and I went out to a little gig place yesterday that I love.. I had a little thought on the way too. How nice it was since the smoking ban because since I've gotten pregnant I would never have been able to go in there. Partially because I'd be worried about how much second hand smoke I'd be inhaling and partly because the smell would just about kill me.

Also I appriciate nicotine is an addiction there are far less obnoxious ways of dealing with your addiction in public. Patches, gum, fake cigarettes. There are fuckign loads of options. Failling that just be polite to those around you. DON't go and sit next to the pregnant women, who just wants to sit down at the bus stop, cause she is so tired and in pain. not that I'm bitter about it, no

Do smokers know how horrible they smell?
I actually wretch when that gets up my nose, its really vile.

Im not trying to insult, but really, smoke smells horrid, its not nice to walk about town, get on a bus and have to endure that stench, im sure even smokers can remember a time where they got a whif of something nasty, well thats what it is like, except if your walk into a plume of smoke it gets on your coat/clothes and it lingers for ages.

Hopefully the more antisocial it becomes, the more people will be willing and able to seek help to quit.

YANBU. Smokers smell absolutely putrid. I can't believe they can't smell themselves. I don't like having to walk through clouds of their smoke and end up honking like they do.

Fair play if you feel that whatever benefit you get from smoking (?!) is worth the cancer risk and ovebearing aroma of mankiness, but FFS please understand that I don't.

Do you drink alcohol? If so, point out to them that that's your vice and that you'd be happy to spray them with the bi-product of that any time they like!