Does cigarette smoke/smell bother you?

Polaris boats had ash trays built into the bunks!!!!

Gave up smoking when I was 40 and find it revolting even more so when my kids mum took up smoking at 50 (who does that?) and I used to pick her up stinking of fags.

I was at a Costa Coffee on Sunday. Family arrive - Mum, Dad and 2 kids a girl and a boy. They sit outside and once they get their drinks/food, both parents proceed to light up and puff away. No moving from the kids, no effort to blow smoke away from them. I just thought "How can you do this to your kids?" By all means smoke, your body, your money, your choice, but inflicting it on others is poor.

I notice the smell of weed damn near everywhere there is a general population when I'm out on my bike. Even more mental when you filter through traffic and drive past a car where its absolutely stinking, either recently or currently being smoked.

To answer the OP, I agree with you I think your parents were rude and obnoxious, the guy was doing nothing wrong. FWIW I don't mind the smell of cigarette smoke, and in many ways feel a sunny day on a beer garden benefits from a bit of smoke. It covers the BO...

It bothers me, but can tolerate it.

Mrs 98elise is an ex smoker and hates it. When she smoked she was blind to it, but once she gave up she became sensitive to it.

When smoking was still allowed in pubs we basically had to avoid pubs as a couple. I would still go out with mates after work, and she could tell as soon as I walked in the house.

Smoking is bad enough, but vaping is equally nasty. You notice a car in front of you at traffic lights sometimes erupt with a cloud of smoke out of the window, god knows what it's like in the car.

It's even worse when you realise a large proportion of that atrocious smole has been inside that weirdo's lungs and if you can smell it, it's now in yours! Yuck.

You can spot the smokers on this thread by the fact they hate vapes more than the acrid and persistent stench of cigarette smoke.

It's well known that smokers have no sense of smell, so I think they hate it with such rancour because it means people are giving up smoking.

I'm an ex smoker but only for a short time as a teen (quit when Howard put the tax up, so smokers really hate me). One of the first things to return to you when you quit is your sense of smell and you realise just how much smoke reeks, unlike vapes it doesn't just reek when you're doing it. I hate using a lift or stairwell after a smoker because the smell persists even though they were doing it outside, it'll hang around in a lift for half an hour easy. It stays on your clothes, in your car, seeps into furniture, the stench is invasive and very, very hard to get rid of... And smokers are completely oblivious to it.

I'd much rather walk through dozens of clouds of vape than a single lift after a smoker has used it.

It's been a long time since I've been anywhere where you can smoke indoors, the Philippines 7 years ago had to be it but I think it's even been banned there now (whether it's enforced is another matter) but when someone sparks up indoors I can smell it pretty much instantly no matter where they are in the room and I think my sense of smell is a bit blunt.

Is the smell of skunk from any other age group ok then?

The odd wiff of a cigar is ok now and then but hate cigarette smoke. Only people I've ever really been around who smoke was friends of friends and they all used to go and stand well out of the way to have a cigarette.

I've just marked 40 years in my job and for about the first 6 years people could smoke in the office, including at their desk. One memory is the woman opposite me accidentally setting fire to her bin with a spent match and me running down the corridor with it and throwing it all in the basin in the tea point.

So when someone asked me what's the biggest change in 40 years in the civil service I said it was not waste having bins on fire. Actually, we don't have waste bins like that either. And I don't remember an alarm going off either. Those were the days.