wombatking:

kankurette:

wombatking:

actualajani:

jenniferrpovey:

sagalstheory:

people who hate smokers are weird fam like 

1. why do you care about a decision someone makes that doesnt affect you
2. Why do you choose to ignore the concept of “addiction” and its psychological toll
3. Why do you choose to ignore the reasons behind why someone started smoking (stress, depression, anxiety)
4. why are you so judgemental and close-minded just based on what someone ingests
5. Why are you so ignorant to the point where youre literally saying “if you smoke you’re a bad person and (I QUOTE) “a disgusting moron”
6. Why are we giving idiots with no grasp on psychology, understanding, empathy, and logic internet access

Unfortunately, in some cases it’s because many smokers do not respect non-smokers.

I am allergic to an ingredient in commercial cigarettes. I grew up in the UK.

I was seventeen before I could take the bus. (That was when they banned smoking on buses).

I have had to get up from a park bench where I was minding my own business eating because a smoker sat next to me and lit up without asking, and refused to move.

I have every sympathy for addiction and for reasons people might take up smoking. Heck, I don’t care if you smoke.

But when I can’t wait at a bus stop because a smoker won’t walk five steps so he’s downwind of the stop…I lose all my sympathy for that person.

IOW, if you want people to respect your right to smoke, please be one of the smokers who respects other people’s right not to smoke.

Or even to be able to get where they need to go without ending up sick or worse. If somebody has a severe allergy or asthma, your smoke can endanger their life.

So, go ahead, smoke. Just please pay attention and if somebody asks you to move away or stand downwind of them…is that really too much to ask?

“1. why do you care about a decision someone makes that doesnt affect you”
second hand smoke is definitely a thing but whatever

My dad literally used smoking as a weapon. Both my mother and I were allergic, and whenever he had a fight with my mother, he would light up and walk around the house making us cough. 

Wow. That is horrible.

My late gran was a heavy smoker – she ended up with lung damage because of it, in the last years of her life she had to have an oxygen tank – and her house absolutely stank. We’d always stink of smoke whenever we’d been there. The wallpaper was yellow. Dad didn’t like her smoking in front of us so she and my auntie would go to another room to smoke. I think it triggered a chest infection for my brother as well. She did quit eventually, but the damage was done.

I hate being around smokers – unless they’re vaping – because it makes me cough. I’m not being a douche when I cough, it is genuine.

Exactly. It’s not a moral disagreement, it’s not an issue of social decorum – it’s literally toxins being sent into the air. I’m usually a fairly live and let live person, but I literally can’t live like I want to if smoking is allowed everywhere. My health > smoker’s minor inconvenience.