Does cigarette smoke/smell bother you?
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To answer the OP's question: yes, cigarette smoke bothers me, I hate, hate, hate it. I simply cannot fathom why anyone would want to inhale something so disgusting and unpleasant. I appreciate it's highly addictive but what would persuade anyone to start the habit?
As an aside, I was on a cruise ship two weeks ago and the number of people vaping outside (i.e. on deck or around the pool area) was staggering. What struck me was that nobody smoked outside the designated areas, but vaping, apparently, didn't seem to count. OK, a waft of bubble gum fumes when it's outdoors isn't the end of the world, but vapers, it seems, don't think the rules apply to them.
As an aside, I was on a cruise ship two weeks ago and the number of people vaping outside (i.e. on deck or around the pool area) was staggering. What struck me was that nobody smoked outside the designated areas, but vaping, apparently, didn't seem to count. OK, a waft of bubble gum fumes when it's outdoors isn't the end of the world, but vapers, it seems, don't think the rules apply to them.
Yes, I hate it, it's f
king grim. I like a beer but I don't then piss it back out on the people around me, which to me is the equivalent effect.
Don't get me started on all the tts who've never smoked a fag in their life but now walk around hurling clouds of strawberry & kiwi* at everyone in a 10ft radius because it's the current fashion.
* Have they not noticed that every vape stinks the same? I stood in a queue recently behind a smartly dressed woman who had the shopkeeper climbing all over the display cabinets while she was saying "I'll have the strawberry and lime......no, the blueberry and passion fruit........or shall I have the banana and avocado......." etc etc for about 5 minutes.
king grim. I like a beer but I don't then piss it back out on the people around me, which to me is the equivalent effect.Don't get me started on all the t
ts who've never smoked a fag in their life but now walk around hurling clouds of strawberry & kiwi* at everyone in a 10ft radius because it's the current fashion.* Have they not noticed that every vape stinks the same? I stood in a queue recently behind a smartly dressed woman who had the shopkeeper climbing all over the display cabinets while she was saying "I'll have the strawberry and lime......no, the blueberry and passion fruit........or shall I have the banana and avocado......." etc etc for about 5 minutes.
Hate it. Feel lucky that I was born into a generation where it's being phased out. Hard to believe you could smoke indoors until 15 years ago! I remember I used to get stinging eyes from going to pubs as a young kid, and the awful stench on my clothes the morning after a night out in my late teens.
It's definitely one area I think the UK are slightly ahead in. I definitely notice it more of a problem when I travel abroad.
It's definitely one area I think the UK are slightly ahead in. I definitely notice it more of a problem when I travel abroad.
Fresh smoke as someone is smoking doesn't bother me all that much, but stale old smoke smell like gets soaked into clothes and car interiors is pretty nasty.
I do have a cigar occasionally, have never smoked cigarettes though.
You've got to be mindful of people around you if you want to smoke anything "in public" though, so as not to antagonise. More so if you're going to be sat in one place as opposed to wandering around and it only being a transient interaction with anyone else.
If this was a smoking area that the pub has definitely decided is OK for their customers to smoke in, that's fine, if not, and it's just their outdoor seating area, maybe not so much.
I do have a cigar occasionally, have never smoked cigarettes though.
You've got to be mindful of people around you if you want to smoke anything "in public" though, so as not to antagonise. More so if you're going to be sat in one place as opposed to wandering around and it only being a transient interaction with anyone else.
If this was a smoking area that the pub has definitely decided is OK for their customers to smoke in, that's fine, if not, and it's just their outdoor seating area, maybe not so much.
Both my parents smoked. It certainly killed my father along with him being a coal miner.
I was brought up in a mining village in Yorkshire, everyone smoked. I did not.
I joined the RN submarines, in those days you could smoke in the mess decks.
One of my jobs was to maintain the ventilation. Therefore every morning I used to strip out and clean the overhead foam filter from where the smokers used to gather.
2 foot square of foam used to turn a bucket of soapy water black like ink, every day!!
Vile disgusting habit!
I was brought up in a mining village in Yorkshire, everyone smoked. I did not.
I joined the RN submarines, in those days you could smoke in the mess decks.
One of my jobs was to maintain the ventilation. Therefore every morning I used to strip out and clean the overhead foam filter from where the smokers used to gather.
2 foot square of foam used to turn a bucket of soapy water black like ink, every day!!
Vile disgusting habit!
As I smell it so rarely now, it actually reminds me of being on the terraces at Ninian Park (Bob Bank for those who know, know) and therefore some great times with my Dad (both non smokers, but just the smell takes me straight back there). That is when I get a very light wiff in the open air on a rare occasion.
My general issue is the utter selfishness of the smokers. Thinking only of themselves and their filthy habit.
Plenty of examples here, where people don’t care that their smoke is impacting others. Of particular annoyance is a family member of mine who when visiting my house, stands in my back door frame when it’s raining and ‘tries’ to blow it outside yet the air flow brings its straight back in.
I make him go down the end of the garden with an umbrella. Even then it comes straight back in on his clothes.
Finally, the cooking. His taste buds are totally destroyed so every meal is horrendous over seasoned or blow your head off spicy.
My general issue is the utter selfishness of the smokers. Thinking only of themselves and their filthy habit.
Plenty of examples here, where people don’t care that their smoke is impacting others. Of particular annoyance is a family member of mine who when visiting my house, stands in my back door frame when it’s raining and ‘tries’ to blow it outside yet the air flow brings its straight back in.
I make him go down the end of the garden with an umbrella. Even then it comes straight back in on his clothes.
Finally, the cooking. His taste buds are totally destroyed so every meal is horrendous over seasoned or blow your head off spicy.
If it’s like the woman at the table next to us yesterday, who chain-smoked her way through the whole time we were there and very consciously held her smouldering cigarettes low behind her back so the smoke didn’t drift onto her table (but did very efficiently funnel the smoke towards ours!), then I’m all for bringing back hanging.
Just rude and selfish.
I’ve never smoked but was brought up in a smoker’s home which must’ve smelled like an ashtray.
Just rude and selfish.
I’ve never smoked but was brought up in a smoker’s home which must’ve smelled like an ashtray.
Quite like the odd whiff of tobacco smoke outside on a sunny day. I prefer it to the awful sickly sweet smell of vapes at any rate.
It's quite rate these days. Where I live, the smell of the summer is weed. Cycling downs Peckham High Street I sometimes feel I am the only one who hasn't got a spliff on.
Inside is a no no. I remember when people could smoke in the pub, it was pretty grim. Everything stank.
It's quite rate these days. Where I live, the smell of the summer is weed. Cycling downs Peckham High Street I sometimes feel I am the only one who hasn't got a spliff on.
Inside is a no no. I remember when people could smoke in the pub, it was pretty grim. Everything stank.
I hate the smell of cigarette smoke. I have never smoked. In my younger days mates smoked and I hated the smell even then. When outside in a pub or restaurant I can’t stand the fact that it’s still ok for people to smoke in the outdoor seating areas.
As for vaping this drives me nuts. That sickly sweet smell. I was in a large indoor shopping complex yesterday and a bloke was oblivious to the no smoking or vaping signs and walking along puffing out large clouds of smoke. I’m seeing this more and more and people not been challenged by the management of these places, pubs and restaurants.
Of course this is all reinforced by a lifetime working in the NHS and witnessing the damage smoking does.
As for vaping this drives me nuts. That sickly sweet smell. I was in a large indoor shopping complex yesterday and a bloke was oblivious to the no smoking or vaping signs and walking along puffing out large clouds of smoke. I’m seeing this more and more and people not been challenged by the management of these places, pubs and restaurants.
Of course this is all reinforced by a lifetime working in the NHS and witnessing the damage smoking does.
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