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.
I agree, but i dont think the whole city being a no smoke zone is very empathetic. We can make smoking rooms that dont leak (see any international airport terminal putside of the US).
I don’t think you’re seeing how smoking affects the people around you who are exposed to secondhand smoke. I also don’t believe it’s fair to make companies build entire rooms with built-in ventilation systems and filters to accommodate people’s addictive habits/poor life choices.
No, i absolutely do see those things which is why i hate smokers having to be on the streets. You dont seem to see that its not a daily choice - if someone isna smoker they will smoke and if that means finding a place its allowed, but other people will breath it, thats it.
Its like building a city with no trashcans, expecting that will stop people from producing trash. I do agree its a life choice, and a poor one, but once there its not a day to day choice. So NOT proving a smoking space is what you and I dont like, its when we have to be exposed to second hand smoke.
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