To be so sick of cigarette smoke everywhere I go?

[WanderingNotLost]

And I do mean everywhere. Walking to the train station, people walking ahead of me smoking and I can't avoid it. Walking into the train station, at least half a dozen people desperately puffing away before they have to get on a train for max. 25 mins. Breathing out the last cloud of smoke as they get on the train and then their breath stinks up the carriage. Lighting up as soon as they leave the station at the other end. Walking from the tube station to work. Outside the building entrance when I go out for lunch. Same story on my way home. When I'm at home, can't have the balcony door or any windows open as other people's smoke wafts in. If it's not cigarette smoke it's that sickly sweet vapour. I just hate it so much, and I'm so aware of how bad it is for people - and smokers choose to do it, the people around them have no choice about breathing it in. If it were up to me it'd be illegal.

And please, please, no ridiculous comparisons to exhaust fumes (not that I drive anyway). Cars etc at least have a highly useful function, they get you from A to B. Smoking has literally not one single redeeming quality to make it worth all the negative aspects.

My Mum smoked til i was about 22 and I've become more and more angry in hindsight about how she could have done that with two children. God knows how much damage she did to our lungs

To err is human and all that...

I just don't see how anyone can justify doing it to themselves, never mind inflicting it on anybody who happens to be within a 10 metre radius.

Well it's legal and they enjoy it. That's probably the justification I'd imagine!

Rachel I am right there with you on the weed comment.

Seriously snobby

Rachel - I'm no snob, but my Mum is also in a social housing block of flats and it's the same where she is - I don't think it's a coincidence. I'm not saying everyone in social housing is a massive pothead.

Myfabouritecolour but if you're moving around London, waiting for buses, coming out of tube stations etc it DOES feel like it's everywhere. I often get to work or home smelling like a smoker because I've been unable to avoid the crowd of people ahead of me smoking or the crowd of people at the bus stop, all around me, smoking. It's fantastic that you don't experience it but imo it is different in the city. That's just inevitable I guess.

I have noticed a huge increase in the amount of people vaping though which is a considerable improvement! I often find myself moving to avoid a plume of smoke only to realise it's some fruit-scented vapour or some such...

Why did you even feel the need to mention it then OP ?

In fact some who I know who smoke the weed are professional people and certainly not in social housing , far from it .

They don't need to justify it, it's legal and they most likely enjoy doing it

I'm in London and I very rarely see people smoking.

Everyone smoked when I was young. Teachers in school at their desks, bus drivers, in every cafe and pub. Even the library staff had a telescopic ashtray next to their desk as obviously the lit end shouldn't be near books

At uni in lectures, in cinemas, literally everywhere.

I'm in London and I very rarely see people smoking

I guess I do work somewhere very central and with lots of bus stops / tubes... Maybe just more noticeable/concentrated in certain areas.

Rachel - don't know really. But honestly no snobbery meant.

And there was the smoking end of the plane- like having a pissing end of the pool!

I get quite a severe prolonged coughing reaction when I'm forced to breathe in cigarette smoke, since it is said to contain over 4,000 chemicals I guess I must be allergic to one of them, say tar, carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide or arsenic. Whereas before the ban I could more easily avoid going into areas where people were smoking now they are positioned outside buildings or open windows where I have to pass and I can't avoid their exhaust, for want of a better word.

If people want to poison and or kill themselves with tobacco I suppose I have to accept their right to do so but I don't think its right they add to the pollution of the environment for no appreciable benefit.

I don't have my own separate air supply, I have to breathe what's there.

Yes! The smoking end of the plane

Plus (and this is a weird one) - if you wanted the non-smoking section in a restaurant you got put outside on the terrace if there was one or in the worst seats possible next to the front door or fire door

Because most patrons were smoking at the table and non-smokers were the minority!

Ahhh smoking at the back of the single decker bus and the back of the cinema

Pretty sure there are weed smokers from all walks of life but you're much more likely to notice your neighbours doing it in a block of flats than if you live in a large Victorian semi.

I agree with the OP. It is great that smoking is banned in pubs and restaurants but sometimes going into a pub or restaurant means going through a dense crowd of smokers and a dense cloud of smoke.

Some American states have banned smoking within a certain distance of the entrance to a public place, that reduces the problem.
I get really annoyed when visiting a hospital and people are smoking outside the entrance despite big notices saying it is not allowed.
Why should non-smokers suffer for smoke?
In my opinion the OP INBU she is totally correct.

I am a smoker and really disapprove of smoking right outside school or today, walking up to school behind a smoker. On the whole though I don't really think it should affect the majority, plus I think a lot of smokers are quite considerate and won't smoke where it immediately affects anyone. Not liking the smell is far different from walking through the middle of a cloud of exhaled smoke.

I grew up in a family of smokers so was well accustomed to thick plumes of smoke (although cigars in the car were spectacularly grim and made me feel really nauseous).

Since living in a smoke free environment and the smoking ban, I've become much more sensitive to it because I'm around it much less.

My pet hate is people smoking while walking around places like parks and woods. Because I'm inevitably walking quickly or running, I'm taking deeper breaths so it irritates. The concept of getting out for fresh air and contaminating your lungs at the same time is completely lost on me.

Yes I know it's legal and within the rights of a smoker, but it is unpleasant for others in the vicinity. (Although at least the risks of passive smoking have decreased compared to a couple of decades ago)

OP you say that it's in no way comparable to fumes from a car but I disagree a bit. I think it's certainly comparable to a driver using the car to travel a short distance from A to B to pick up a pint of milk when they could easily walk it instead. A lot of car journeys are taken out of laziness.

I don't really notice cigarette smoke now but I'm fed up with the vile smelling vaping. It's disgusting to walk behind someone who is using one.

YADNBU but I fucking shitting HATE the smell of vaping too so gross, can't people just grow up and give up this revolting habit?

The vaping rage puzzles me. People rant on and on about what a health damaging habit smoking is, smoker takes this on board and switches to vaping instead, and still the wrath comes!

OH had a massive vape it annoyed the shit of me and stank sickly sweet - worse than fags IMO

Aha are you the one with lungs by Dyson?

Can't go outside? Not such a bad thing perhaps.

YANBU - It's only a matter of time before it's made illegal to some anywhere other than inside your own home. I can't wait for it!