minky / others: I could so easily be the online anti-smoking pro-quit bossy bast*rd person to watch over all MNers who choose to become non-smokers.
I hate the smell. I hate the fact that it makes my nose run when sat in a restaurant next to a smoker. I hate the fact that it makes my asthma hurt a bit, but that I don't want to ask you to put it out or eff off because we've all got rights, and you're having fun out someplace too. I hate the fact that I might walk down the street with my kid (one day dw is pg with first ) and be stuck behind you and your foul fumes.
I hate the fact that so many beautiful people with healthy bodies poison them. I think that is and ugly. And I think snogging you lot is the most foul thing a non-smoking man can do.
And I am permanently outraged that a product so toxic and so addictive continues to be tolerated in England, and marketed by corporate greed.
And I'm at kids that grow up in smoking homes where their clothes smell, or where they might get exposed to passive smoking, or where they kiss their smelly parents goodnight and think that smoking is OK / normal.
I think anyone who even tries to give up is fantastically brave as the addiction - physical, psychological and social - is very strong. And I think anyone who succeeds should be proud of themselves for an awfully long time - for every day you don't smoke in fact. And I secretly hope that after five years of being a non-smoker it repulses you as much as it repulses me.
Very very best of luck to all quitters. Carr worked for dw, your mileage may vary.
Well done to all those who have made this year a year to begin being fag free, and happy 30th to you, minky.