ok I just opened my yahoo mail and got the email from SEQ GEEK yahoogroups below;
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Re: Smoking?
Posted by: "Sela"
Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:21 am (PST)
i don't have any suggestions other than people having the guts to sayto smokers how badly it can effect them.
smoking can give me an asthma attack and some smokers are just plain
rude.
when my daughter was a baby, i'd have people come up right beside her
pram and start smoking right beside. at least when i had her in tow,
i sometimes got the courage to say "can you please not smoke around a
baby". actually i felt like saying "hey, if you want to **** up your
own lungs, go right ahead; if you want to be an inconsiderate
bastard, go right ahead, but don't smoke near a young child who can't
get up and walk away from your selfishness" .
i can remember one particular time about four years ago, i was sick
with the flu, and these two rude women lit up on a city council bus -
one of the ones that is enclosed and air conditioned so anything in
the air gets all throughout the bus. they were also sitting next to
the do not smoke sign. i wasn't particularly having a good day being
sick, so i just let myself cough without covering it. and the more
they smoked, the more i coughed in their direction.
unfortunately, they seemed to have the brain the size of a gnat and
just looked at me with a look that they had no idea what my problem
was and that somehow i was the rude inconsiderate one.
oh, for those who don't catch city council buses - smoking is illegal
on them and has been for as long as i can remember, and you can get a
huge fine for it.
in the end, i just got off and told the bus driver on the way out.
but he didn't do anything other than drove off.
the problem with smoking unlike drinking and drugs, if you're in like
a party situation, or a place where smoking is still legal, you don't
have a choice but to be a passive smoker or leave. drunks might get
obnoxious, but you won't get cancer or an asthma attack hanging out
with drunks.
personally, i don't think there is a lot you can do. some smokers
respect non smokers, some don't. even if you ask them to stop, some
won't, and even if it's illegal for them to be smoking, some will
keep doing it.
all you can do is try to politely explain to friends that you are
quite allergic to cigarette smoke and if they can't respect that, all
you can do is find more respectful friends, and in the case of public
places that allow smoking - well unfortunately, there isn't a
terrible lot you can do because if you go up to a stranger and ask
them to stop smoking for you, quite often they are just going to
treat you like you're a troublemaker. all you can really do is find
new places to hang out at.
until smoking is banned forever or a "consideration gene" makes its
way into the entire human species, you'll always get some people who
have no problem with smoking all over people with allergies.
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I remember that based on research that the passive smokers have higher risk of lung cancer than active smokers. That mean... Smokers killing more people that killing Him Self
Now its your choice, to QUIT or to KILL PEOPLE SURROUND YOU
QUITING IS HARD, BUT NOT QUITING IS HARDER
