Reply #336: Exactly smoking affects all around the smoker. [View All]

[madmunchie]

I used to smoke and I have a friend that still smokes. We have known each other for over 40 years. She quit smoking a couple of times when I was still smoking. Whenever I would light up she would wave her hand towards the smoke. I was very careful when I smoked around others, but she still would do this. Then I quit smoking and she restarted smoking. That was 14 years ago. She still smokes and I don't. I don't "wave my hand" nor do I make comments if she should light up in a restaurant. I do get a stuffy nose and sometimes a headache, sometimes a sore throat depending on how long we stay in a smoky environment and how smoky the environment is.

Somebody sitting next to you having a drink or eating a steak do NOT have the same affect on those close by.

If the restaurant has another room that has a door that actually closes, then the restaurant should be able to allow smoking. Unless it can be contained that way, then no, smoking shouldn't be allowed in public places where other people and babies are subjected to 2nd hand smoke and it's affects.

by the way, I never tell my friend not to smoke, nor do I wave my hand when she does. She elects to go outside to smoke her cigarettes when she is over and even in her own home she smokes outside. I usually go outside with her when she smokes. I just wish that she would quit for her health.

Every person that I know that has died before the age of ....say 65 was a smoker. Not saying that they died of lung cancer, throat cancer, heart disease...but they all died of SOME TYPE of cancer or some type of heart disease. I find it really odd and alarming to have come to that realization. (of course that doesn't include car accidents....)