Dear People Who Smoke
I don’t know if you have considered this but stop smoking in areas where people are forced to wait at. Don’t smoke at crosswalks. Don’t smoke outside doorways. Don’t smoke at bus stops. People with asthma or other breathing conditions or people that idk DON’T WANT TO BREATHE IN YOUR CIGARETTE SMOKE are trying to get to places and need to be able to breathe. Stop smoking in crowded areas. stop smoking in crowded areas. STOP FORCING NONSMOKERS TO SECOND HAND SMOKE.
+ please don’t force your pets to be in a place where they have no choice but to inhale this smoke either.
I don’t know if u considered this but ppl who struggle with addiction don’t really respond well to rejection and isolation and condemnation but whatever your royal highness
People with severe lung disorders respond even worse to smoke inhalation and if you think that isn’t a priority then I don’t even know what to tell you..
“I want to live”
“Lol, ok princess”
Smoker here.
Yeah, heres the thing, yeah I’m an addict, but that’s literally no excuse to expose others to it.
The ONLY time I smoke at a cross walk, or any other public area is when I’m alone.
If I’m near people (more specifically, friends or a group of people I’m talking with) I stand downwind, I blow my smoke, downwind, I respect other people right to not get lung cancer.
If kids are able to see me, but not close enough to get exposed to smoke, I hide that shit, I’m not trying to make kids think it’s cool.
If a kid is close enough to get exp to smoke, that shit it get put out and hidden.
If I’m out in a public place (with no one around, as stated above) guess where I put the cigarette butt when I’m done with it (and theres no butt can) in my pocket, I dont want to litter or expose animals to the toxins that are in a used cigarette butt.
If I can put forth the minimal effort to not expose people to my cancer sticks, so can every other smoker.
Dont be a dick.
(P.S. that comment about isolation, there are smoking areas for a reason, and every smoking area I’ve ever been to is a social hotspot, you aren’t alone 99% of the time. And even if you were, too fucking bad, we’re choosing to expose ourselves to cigarette smoke, dont force it onto other people, especially if you consider them your friends.)
I had somebody who insisted on standing upwind of a bus stop and smoking. To get upwind of him I had to stand a LONG way away from the stop. I’m allergic to something in commercial cigarettes. Not life threatening epipen level allergic, but not slightly allergic either.
His response “You can stand in the shelter.”
It was 100 degrees. The shelter was glass. I anticipate it was about 120 degrees in the shelter.
And I spent several months working at a place with a very nice park outside. I had to stop going out there to eat lunch because every single day I would sit on a bench, start eating, and a smoker would sit right next to me without asking and light up. And expect me to move when I was there first.
Yes, you have an addiction, but it isn’t an excuse to be an asshole. I get that you may not be able to just quit, but if you are preventing people from eating their lunch in peace, you are an asshole.
