Oh my God, never seen or smelt so many smokers on holiday, getting annoyed with them, smoke at the pool, smoke at the beach, smoke outside, no need for it now, mainly oldies. Why do they take offence when I look at them as they blow smoke my way 😄😃😂😁😀😆😆😀😁😂😄😃😂😁😀😆
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Lol it's disgusting I hate the smell of the things yet 8 months ago I would have been one of them 🤔🤔
O2Trees in reply to
Wow, good for you Angie.
jjnanna in reply to
Know how you feel, when I see folk huddled out in the rain I think .... that would have been me once ... and love it when you see the 'vape people' I always say ....man on fire lol ... so much smoke !!
That's not nice David but watch your blood pressure. Xxxx
Vile
Yuk - after you give up you wonder whether you smelt like they do too 
in reply to O2Trees
sorry, yes you probably did. My very best friend who has sadly now died, stored some of her clothes in one of my bedrooms whilst she moved house. After about a week I took her into the room. The smell of stale smoke was sickening. Especially her fleeces. She was so shocked that she she just stopped smoking.
Very well done all of you who have managed to stop smoking. I know that it is a terrible addiction and to give up is an almighty achievement.
I'm surprised you found them "mainly oldies", but then I suppose it depends on what you class as old. There's certainly few smokers in my age group, it's already killed them off.
1968 in reply to
It's mostly people ive Roush who I see smoking, a few young ones but my hotel in the old part of Benidorm is, let's say not for the young ones.
Don't get me started. I think it should be banned in public places. Why should I have to move every time someone lights up near me? People think nothing of littering our lovely beaches with their cigarette butts. Either find a litter bin or take them home with you. Smokers never, ever seem to do that. And the number of people I've driven behind & watched them throw butts out of the window! Absolutely disgusting behaviour, drives me insane.
Leaving hospital (regular check-up) a couple of weeks ago I walked out of the door straight into a cloud of smoke as some old guy "sparked up". When I thanked him for being so inconsiderate some yob decided to make it his business!
I pointed out the sign (right behind him) stating that it is a smoke-free hospital and either he is illiterate or ignorant! Don't think he knew how to respond! I'm not suggesting everyone tries this (at six foot & twenty stone I usually get away with it!) but it might make the yob think twice before wading in next time!
in reply to y_not
well done y-not. It takes a lot of courage to challenge them because they can become very nasty. If we relieved ourselves all over them, which is probably our equiivalent retaliation, society would be outraged and we would be arrested
Thank god I didn't turn into a born again non smoker. I still remember and understand how that addiction feels x
in reply to lozzy58
I am not a born again non smoker Iozzy58. I never smoked but have been affected by their filth all of my life against me will.
lozzy58 in reply to
Ok I'm guilty. Life ain't fair sometimes.
I gave up two years ago but I'm still a smoker in my mind
in reply to lozzy58
No you are a star! I have so much respect for those who manage to give up. It must be just the most difficult thing in the world. Well done for changing your life and helping to change mine. xx
Live and let live. Good luck to them.
in reply to Tetrazzini
That's the point. Smokers don't give me chance to live when they pollute my air. I don't care what they do to themselves as long as they don't force me to do it.
in reply to Tetrazzini
Shouldn't that saying be 'Live and let die'?
I agree with you Tetrazzini about Live and let live. Walking past someone who is smoking isn't going to do that much damage its being in a smoky place that will do damage. You can get more damage to your lungs just walking out side. I live next to a pub and pass smokers everytime I go out. I just feel sorry for them and hope they soon see the error of there ways. Remember most of us were smokers at one time ..
Since giving up I can smell one from 100m.lol. Since I stopped smoking at Christmas I now can smell all the fumes from cars, buses, BBQs etc things in the past I never noticed as such.
Hello 1968,
Wow I hear you loud and clear!! I have lived on both sides of the fence. Was a smoker most of my life. Was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer the end of 2014. I quit smoking shortly after that.
Now a non-smoker I tend to find the smell of cigarettes unpleasant wherever I go. I used to feel like the ones who acted annoyed by you looking at them. Did you glare your eyes at them?? Roll your eyes?? Or look disgusted by them all??
Unfortunately, until outlawed nationwide, smokers are here to stay. I have family and friends who still smoke. Nothing I say discourages any of them to stop.
1968 I wish you well. I join you in the fight against smokers!! Perhaps they need prayers. God bless.
Kathie
I quit after forty some years and a hundred tries. So bad it was that my car would not start without me first lighting up. I never realised how bad it smelled to a non smoker till I stopped. Some folks I know ask " what's the big deal? It's not that bad." Then if they ever do quit they see it. There is no excuse for forcing non smokers to suffer because of their addiction. I think they'll never care until they quit and see for themselves.
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I gave up the fags 20 years ago but the doc says the damage has already been done .
Something we can talk about indefinitely without solution. Whilst the never smoked or given-up, choose to rant or complain we are all sadly in a situation brought about by society.
Not being knowledgeable about the statistics but going back some 50-60 years a very large proportion of adults smoked. Whatever room one entered it would be rare indeed not to be inhaling someone's smoke and probably ours alongside it.
It really is a society and indeed a culture matter. The smoking has been removed from public buildings but not spaces. We should thank ourselves for that at least. When I come across the groups whilst out and about I just accelerate along and think sadly on their future.
And of course the new culture. I am sure there is heavy investment by the tobacco industry in the array of e-cigs available. They started well some five or so years ago when I tried them but now sadly looks like anything but when looking at a group of adults puffing away like that. It has become a culture thing with the variety of encouraging flavours for the younger generation and not just as a replacement for nicotine.
As I said we can talk about indefinitely but as we all know Common Sense is not very common. My daughter at age 49 has been diagnosed with COPD, mostly uses her e-cigs but often reverts [sadly]. The twenty year old daughter, attending university, looks on at my illness and her mother's diagnosis but chooses to smoke.
We all have our choices. my wife's father and sister both smoked and both died from COPD, both living well into their seventies I might add. This is not a strong enough example for my partner who had a father & sister with breathing struggles, my partner still feels it appropriate to smoke in the house.
You can all imagine what it's like trying to go up and down the stairs in that fog. i actually find it refreshing going out on my scooter as my brush with those smoking is but temporary, I just accelerate and it is gone. Not something i can do at home.
My congratulations to the ex-smokers and to those who did not smoke, all and everyone that has found their way to the COPD room. We are all inextricably linked, so my thoughts are with you all and my thanks to those who give us the will to live and think of others who do not yet have that will.
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Feel sorry for the smokers they don't choose to smoke it's an addiction. Those that have been successful in stopping hats off to you .I don't know any smoker that wants to smoke xx
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Those who have never smoked will never know the best or worst of the ciggie. The relief of the stress busting effect, the craving when you haven't got any left, the simple pleasure of just 'lighting up', the hacking cough and/or the horrible taste first thing in the morning. That makes it hard for them to understand why we do (did) it, and why giving up is such a big deal. I stopped smoking eleven years ago at my fourth attempt. I remember the year and the number of times I failed as clearly as I remember every other important anniversary and every other failure 'that mattered'. Everyone I know who has stopped smoking remembers when they stopped - I imagine it's much the same if you get divorced - it's not something that just happens and then you forget about it. It matters, it's incredibly stressful and it's not something you forget easily.
My younger son still smokes, I wish he didn't but knowing how I used to feel when being 'advised/nagged/admonished as a smoker, I figure it's better to let him do things in his own time, and in his own way. He doesn't impose his smoke on anyone else so I don't impose my thoughts on him, he knows I'd like him to stop so I don't feel there's any need to go on at him about it.
I can smell a smoker from yards away and as I don't drive I sometimes have to put up with some very pungent people parking themselves on the seat next to me on the bus - not very nice if they positively reek of tobacco but 'for me personally' even worse if it's curry that I smell. I don't like curry at all and I like the smell even less. But I refuse to get angry about other people smoking, or eating curry, life's too short to be spent feeling stressed and angry, it's only a passing displeasure - it's not as if I have to live with them.
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