Fact of the matter is, Cigarette smoke stinks.

[trumad]

Hey...I could care less if people smoke...really. I know that second hand smoke ain't the best for you but I can deal with it.

BUT I gotta tell you--- cig smoke stinks. If I'm in a bar the night before and folks are smoking... the next morning I gotta get my clothes right to the washing machine. Cause they stink from cig smoke.

If I walk into a hotel room where the previous guest smoked...it stinks...and bad. Same with a car, etc.

Too bad they can't invent a odorless cigarette.

[Taoschick]

1. I agree

Cigarette smoke is nasty. But then again, so is 90% of the perfume and cologne people drench themselves in on a daily basis.......a stench that makes me physically ill. The only positive is that I don't have to carry it home with me as you do with cigarette smoke.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I smoke

and agree with you entirely. As a result I'm careful as to where I do so.

[razors edge]

3. or a heroin needle

that doesn't transmit aids, both the side effects of addiction.

I smoke two packs a day so I speak from experience.

[Sadie5]

8. I smoke but don't drink

I have never spearheaded a drive to stop drinkers nor have I said bad things about them, but I'm here to tell ya there's nothing that stinks worse than a non smoking drunk at a bar that insists on getting up in my face to talk to me. The nasty garbage smell makes me move at least two steps back from the person. See...we smokers find fault with drinkers too, but we are trying to be nice about it.

[razors edge]

21. Yes, and the french don't like showers

from what I hear. Everyone pisses off someone else at sometime or another I guess. Lets pass a law to make pissing anybody off a crime.

[Placebo]

4. I've always loved the smell...

even from as far back as I can remember, as a kid.

I'm a smoker today, but I'd call myself a light smoker, like 1-3 cigarettes on a normal day, and maybe 5 a day if I'm out with friends.

[trumad]

7. It smells all right as it floats through the air...

but when it gets absorbed it's pretty bad.

[bigwillq]

5. This smoker agrees.

But I am addicted.

[RPM]

6. hell - i cant stand the smell when someone gets on the bus...

right after smoking. If they sit near me, i try to move.

[Ksec]

9. Tell me something I dont know

And yer breath stinks too. If you smoke.

[AlCzervik]

10. there are bars where you live that people can actually smoke in?

i cannot even remember the last time i smoked inside a building and i don't mind at all going outside so my house doesn't stink, plus my husband and daughter don't smoke.

[trumad]

12. I visited Louisville a couple of weeks ago...

they still smoke in bars.

[Solo_in_MD]

14. London (as in the UK) as well

[YellowRubberDuckie]

36. Here in Oklahoma, our favorite bar is all smoking....

And the great thing is, there is so much ventalation it's freaking awesome. We're non smokers. Baker's Street Pub and Grill on Memorial out by the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City. It's great. Quite British, they even serve BANGERS AND MASH!!.
Duckie

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. True. So do skunks, and gas stations, and garbage trucks.

I never really thought of it that way before. ;)

[BlackVelvet04]

13. Beer stinks, worse,

I come home from a bar with the smell of beer on my clothes which I hate.

Life's a bitch, ain't it?

[Squatch]

23. I don't even want to know how second hand beer can affect you.

:puke:

[ret5hd]

30. Your shoes get wet. (get it?)

[randr]

15. It is interesting that we control our urge to fart

in public, so as to avoid ridicule I assume, yet smokers have no such self consciousness. I say this as an unapologetic ex smoker who still, occasionally, enjoys a puff of the weed.

[Bake]

16. Thank you, Mr. Obvious!

Of course they smell bad. So do farts. I don't see anybody banning farts (although I would if I could -- yours, of course, not mine. Mine don't stink.).

Bake

[Chipper Chat]

17. I tolerate this, but it's a downer:

My neighbors on the south side both smoke (chain). They have twin daughters that both smoke. The twins have boy-friends that both smoke. That makes 6 people smoking. They never go anywhere. The smoke drifts thru my bedroom windows and thru the entire house. I have to shut my windows most of the day. They have a rec room which is about 11 feet from my bedroom. They live there all day. What can you do? I don't feel like this is an issue I can confront them with. The topper is - they smoke BASICS! Yuk - horrible smell.

[AndreaCG]

18. I just attended an out of town wedding

And had to take a smoking room cause they had mistakenly given me and my friend a room with a king size bed. The only one with two doubles was smoking. My friend forgot to bring her PJs so I loaned her my Worst President Ever t shirt to wear. It had been clean. When I came home it reeked of smoke.

[MissB]

19. If I even step in my sil's house for a minute

my clothes and hair reek of cigarette smoke. I do have a sensitive nose, though.

[baldingrockwarlord2]

20. Intolerance stinks more than ANYTHING

We used to be a free country. But nowadays there is entirely too much social engineering going on. Our forefathers founded a nation that was built on freedom, but those freedoms are being eroded and chastised and deemed unnacceptable by the day.

Remember, "first they came for the (take your pick), and I said nothing..."

I don't smoke, and I agree that cigarette smoke smells, but if we can't live together and TOLERATE each other, perhaps it's time to throw in the towel and start new countries. We're almost on that path now, anyway, sad to say.

How about No tobacco, no alcohol, no religion, no cable, no guns. Can you see where this is going? No freedom. Total government control and say-so. Would that make y'all happy? I think the less tolerant people around here need to re-think things a bit.

[Crunchy Frog]

22. Cigarette smoke stinks worse.

I'm all for freedom, but it has always had limits; generally when it begins to have severe adverse effects on other people. People should have the right to put whatever they want into their own bodies, but they should not have the right to pollute the air that others have to breathe, or stink up other people's clothes. Alcohol is fine, as long as you don't endanger other people's lives by driving or operating heavy machinery afterwards. Religion, no problem, so long as you don't try to impose your beliefs on other people, and aren't committing human sacrifice, or ritualistically raping children. As far as guns go, I would be in favor of treating them exactly as we treat automobiles; ie, you would have to pass a set of rigorous standards in order to have a licence, and you would have to carry insurance on all firearms in your posession, to be set by the market, that would cover the potential costs of any damage or mayhem that might be brought about by the use of said firearm. I'm not sure what your problem with cable is.

Freedom yes. But not freedom to wantonely impose anything you like on other people. By the way, they don't let you masturbate, have sex, or walk around naked in public either, so we're already living under tyrrany. First they came for the masturbaters...

[BlackVelvet04]

26. Bravo!!!!

n/t

[karlrschneider]

27. Excellent post! And welcome to DU by the way.

We here at DU pride ourselves on our tolerance. It only goes a little way, though.
:eyes:

[trumad]

32. What...cig smoke doesn't stink?

uh ok...

[karlrschneider]

33. Stink is in the nose of the beholder. As a DUer, I would think you'd

know that.
Lots of things stink. I'd like to have those stinking parsnips outlawed, are you okay with that?
:eyes:

[trumad]

45. Dude

Oh never mind...

[Gato Moteado]

31. get real....

freedom is one thing. freedom to force someone else to deal with your unwanted cigarette smoke is different. nobody says you can't smoke that garbage if you want...we're just saying that your freedom to smoke ends at our nose.

no cable? where did that come from?

bizarre post.

[marzipanni]

24. My friend and I tried to get our mothers to stop when we were twelve

we had been to the science museum in Boston and saw a display like this (in 3-D)-

When I was sixteen it was fashionable to try imported cigs; two reluctant puffs on an English Oval was all it took- YUCK!
That old friend smoked a bit in college (I was disappointed because we REALLY had wanted our moms to quit, and my friend had been swayed by the perceived "coolness" of holding a cig.) She decided it wasn't cool, and was able to stop.
My mom quit smoking when she was about 66 and now she's 93, and heathy.
My friend's mom quit, too, and she's in her eighties.
I wish young people would never even try it, in case they get addicted. I've known too many people who had emphysema and/or cancer.

[Squatch]

25. Yes, it does. It smells during and waaay after the person stops.

That's why I could never date a smoker. I can barely tolerate people I work with who smoke...I hate even speaking with them, unless it's over the phone.

[devilgrrl]

28. Fine, go park an idling truck next to your window...

see what kills you first.

[karlrschneider]

34. Oh, that is DIFFERENT. We are permitted to bitch about vehicles

that pollute but they are okay compared with the few milligrams of exhaled cigarette smoke. Personally, I find the stink of hypocrisy I'm seeing here on DU to be FAR more offensive.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

37. Why is it that that is always the argument that is brought up?

It might harm me more, but it doesn't STINK as badly or as LONG. And we don't notice it as much as we do your filthy habit.
Duckie

[karlrschneider]

38. Well, when you are seated next to me, you can complain about

my filthy habit. Meanwhile, turn off your belching automobile because it's equivalent to 10,000 tobacco smokers, smokewise, by the minute, hour or year.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

39. Is that something you just pulled out of your ass?

Because one car is not nearly that bad.
And besides...It's not like I want to own the car. I live in a town where I have no choice. WE'd love to move to a larger city with a better public transportation system, but that's just not an option. Wow. You say hypocritical, I say holier than thou.
Duckie

[karlrschneider]

42. One gallon of gasoline is ~6.5 pounds. 22,000 BTUs per pound

is an average. It takes around 18 pounds of Oxygen to combust that pound of gas. About 30000 cubic feet of O2 at standard pressure & temp. The chemical reaction is pretty straightforward and not in dispute.

How far can you go on one pound (~1/6th of a gallon)? Maybe it seems to you not significant because the combustion products aren't as visible as those from a cigarette...that doesn't mean they don't exist.

You live in a city where you have no CHOICE? Bullshit. You ALWAYS have a 'choice.' I'm not 'holier' than anybody...I fly an airplane that burns 200 gallons an hour...one tenth of what a 747 does.
That's what I do. And I smoke cigarettes too. You don't like it, tough shit. DEAL with it. You don't
get to decide what every goddamn human on the planet is permitted to do.
Sometimes it's impossible to differentiate some DUers from the Freepers. Sheesh.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

46. It really is impossible to differentiate sometimes, isn't it?

[Johonny]

29. I have to agree on this

My younger brother smokes and I can't get into his card without feeling the urge to vomit. It's amazing how strong and pungent the odor is.

[RebelOne]

35. Yes, as a smoker, I agree

But I have a good supply of Febreze that I spray throughout the house every day mainly because I have two dogs. I cannot stand the stale cigarette smell, so I have an Inonic Breeze air purifier in my living room and also ionoc plug-in units in all my rooms.

[Liberal_Dog]

40. My Dad Smokes

I have never been able to understand how he can stand it.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

41. That's why I object to it

I won't date anyone who smokes, because the smell clings to their clothes, hair, and bedding. I'm not one of these prima donnas who claims to be allergic to cigarette smoke, but the smell of ash trays or the inside of a smoker's home is vaguely nauseating, and I prefer not to expose myself to it.

[karlrschneider]

43. Which is your privlege. You can refuse to date Republicans too,

right? It's your decision and nobody (except for some politically-correct DUers) gives a shit.

[mmonk]

44. As a smoker, I concur.