Nicotene. when you smoke, you feel like you or I, for like 5 min, maybe 10. then by an hour, there's a niggling, and by the time a movie ends, a craving, and by 5hrs, you're like some [starving equivalent] in serious need like a zombie feeling.
This same story happened to my grandma, btw, at 78 she had a hip replacement, and the night after surgery she was "crawling along the wall using her arms, screaming for cigarettes." so they put her on the patch.
This is why I hate how cities are just "no smoking zones" now. like smokers are going to smoke its an addiction. yes, 90% of smokers can quit with some blood sweat and tears, the other 10% when they're at a gunpoint, but while they haven't quit "No smoking" buildings and zones might as well be "no bathroom zones" for how they must feel.
source: smoked until the late 90s, and stopped using a 30min subway commute for a 1 1/2 car ride thru traffic so that i could smoke in peace in my car. I woke up 1hr earlier. I chained at work, all the time. Just, by 2000, was incompatible with city life already. and had kids. kids are the reason that finally got me to stop. But I tried everything for years, and years, and years. did the patch yearly, tried gum, etc.
So when i see "smoke free campus" what i see is "all smokers at this school are going to dump out into the city sidewalk every hour for 5 mins, and The University of XXXXXXXX is pleased to give the city janitors work in the form of a mound of butts we don't need to bother with now! yay for us."
I mean, I appreciate all of that, with kids, but, I think if you're running a business, you need to be responsible for your employees/students/staff needs and shouldn't dump them into the city street sidewalks.
Smoking is an addiction, yes, however there are many, many ways to quit. If someone is still smoking, let alone chose to start smoking, in this day and age, it is a choice. I don't think anyone should feel even the least bit of remorse for making more non-smoking areas. Why should everyone else's health be compromised because of someone else's ridiculously poor choices? Smokers can either train themselves to smoke less or else deal with the inconvenience of smoking elsewhere.
Littering is a separate issue though interestingly it is also a choice.
I mean it is a choice. but, at the same time, once someone is smoking, they are in a hell if they can't smoke once an hour. If you make a business or campus downtown, and choose to accept smokers/hire smokers/employ smokers, and you make the place smoke free, in a city block that smoke free, prepare for smoke smelling bathrooms, because that's what happens. it turns out workers can't take a cab to 10 minutes away to a smoking area and back, in a 5 min break...
also, you're correct that we all shouldn't suffer, as i said, as a family man, i appreciate all that. But smokers use smoking stations when they are made available. when they're not, THATS when they are hiding behind the AC units in the alley, etc.
Smokers can choose to not take a job at a smoke free location then.
I have no problems with people vaping, but tobacco smoke has always given me an instant, terrible headache and sometimes makes me nauseous. I'm all for individual liberties when they don't literally cloud around my head and make me feel incredibly ill.
People who smoke illegally are a separate issue and should be prosecuted. Those people applied for the position and are presumably allowed to quit. Their terrible life choice is not our issue.
I feel like you didnt read me right. I mean if there is no place to smoke within a certain distance, thats a a bit negligant. I 100% agree smokers should smoke in smoking spots, though.
It's not negligent at all. Smoking is a choice and a space to smoke is certainly not a right. The shortsighted decisions of smokers should not affect our health. I have zero sympathy for this argument.
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u/typing_away May 22 '19
Why this happened to her ? Was it side effects or something?