🎵 "Don't Stand So Close to Me ..🎶
I wouldn't want to breath those poisons into my lungs voluntarily, so why do people sometimes stand so close smoking nonchalantly, as if I want to breath in the exhaled crap from their lungs?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Are they not even turning their heads away and upwards to exhale away from you?
I do not know for sure but it does seem that non-smokers now greatly outnumber smokers - of both tobacco and nicotine-vapour - here in the UK. The vapour type seems more common than the tobacco, too. (They give themselves away by the much bigger clouds!)
I forget when it was made law but banning smoking indoors in public places including on public transport, and in work places, made those areas far healthier and more pleasant for everyone; and many people indeed were very pleased about that. It means you are not only breathing their bonfire-smoke, but you and your clothes go home after an evening out, not stinking of the stuff.
At the time there was considerable opposition from pub owners fearing the ban would deter customers, but it did not. Probably attracted more non-smokers, in fact.
Smokers in public and work places can still avail themselves of the noxious weed or weird-smelling vapour, but have to go outdoors. Some employers, including mine, or licensed-trade proprietors even erected small shelters, like bus-shelters, and external ash-bins, for them.
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For the record I tried one, maybe two, cigarettes in my youth, hated the taste, thought it a silly habit and have never touched one since. My Dad once said he wished he'd never smoked, which he had done regularly for years; but his generation was one that thought it somehow normal or even good for you!
I do not know for sure but it does seem that non-smokers now greatly outnumber smokers - of both tobacco and nicotine-vapour - here in the UK. The vapour type seems more common than the tobacco, too. (They give themselves away by the much bigger clouds!)
I forget when it was made law but banning smoking indoors in public places including on public transport, and in work places, made those areas far healthier and more pleasant for everyone; and many people indeed were very pleased about that. It means you are not only breathing their bonfire-smoke, but you and your clothes go home after an evening out, not stinking of the stuff.
At the time there was considerable opposition from pub owners fearing the ban would deter customers, but it did not. Probably attracted more non-smokers, in fact.
Smokers in public and work places can still avail themselves of the noxious weed or weird-smelling vapour, but have to go outdoors. Some employers, including mine, or licensed-trade proprietors even erected small shelters, like bus-shelters, and external ash-bins, for them.
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For the record I tried one, maybe two, cigarettes in my youth, hated the taste, thought it a silly habit and have never touched one since. My Dad once said he wished he'd never smoked, which he had done regularly for years; but his generation was one that thought it somehow normal or even good for you!