smoking is pretty bad. I've been smoking since 13, and around half a pack a day since 18. I quit once three years ago for one solid year, just to see if I could do it. Wasn't that hard. It's hard for a week, and then it isn't as difficult. The trick is to find somethign to take the place of the habit, like pushups or something.

Anyway, smoking is bad, but it's really not as bad as the groups make it out to be. They consider a light smoker 1-4 packs a day. 1 to 4! 4! I smoke about one every hour and a half. Figuring that a person is up about 16 hours a day, a 4-pack-a-day smoker is smoking 5 cigarettes per hour. A cigarette takes about 5 minutes to smoke, ~10 if it's an american spirit cigarette. So, at their maximum they consider a light smoker someone who smokes a cigarette, waits 5 minutes and then smokes another one, OR someone who chains american spirits all day long with breaks for the bathroom and eating.

Not to mention that industrial cities have so much carbon in the air that there are thousands of cases of lung cancer from people who don't even smoke.

Now, the reason I lead into this post by saying "smoking is pretty bad" is because while I don't believe it is as detrimental as is proclaimed, it does impede growth. Nicotine restricts blood flow as a stimulant, and it's a diuretic, which means that the normal nutrients you would be getting from food, etc isn't getting effectively absorbed. In that scenario, it makes maintaining fitness problematic, and can indeed lead to getting sick, malnutrition, and put a block in front of any workout regime or training that you do.

Not to mention that the worst of it is probably the smell you put off.

actually, that makes YOU a major douche. :P

When I smoke at a bus-stop I always smoke downwind and away from other people, and when people do what you describe I find it extremely annoying. I don't tell you how to live your life, and I do my best with what I'm given, but there's always someone out there who thinks it's their job to tell me how to live mine.

Not all people smoke downwind...

It's not about telling them what to do. It's about showing my disaproval of them polluting the air for all the people waiting for the bus.

how is that even relevant to smoking in any way?

thousands of non smoking lung cancers in relation to millions of smoker lung cancers?

i mean, if you want to smoke, then smoke, it's your own decision, but be at least honest about it why you do it, and don't  tell me you smoke because it doesn't make any difference if you do or don't.

It's hard to do. Wind directions change. Inevitably people start waiting downwind of you. Just the other day I was a t a train stop a good 10 feet away from the next person holding the cig out and to the side and blowing out and up. I wasn't even near where the train doors stop. Of course, a family comes over right where I'm standing, and so I move into the tracks (above ground train) so that I'm at least 5 feet away from them, and then I see the mom wrinkle her face and start waving her hand around. It's like you know what? You're fucking neurotic.

It's like that. You just shouldn't do something so rude in response to someone smoking. Go up to them and ask them to move downwind, or simply *sigh* quietly and walk away. Public outbursts make people look more like mental patients than anything else.

I know people are probably assholes to you, and they probably stand inside the waiting area where there is no wind. I'm just speaking from experience. I hate people that are out to make it seem like I just gave them cancer. It just gives me more reason to inconvenience them next time. Like, "oh yeah, let's see how you feel about it when I'm a foot away from you".

I am fapping so hard.

For reals its not like we (smokers) give people shit for not smoking. Next time i see a non-smoker ima give him shit for not smoking!

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You make a good point.

Usually though, I'm talking about the people who smoke inside the windsheds and waiting areas like you said. I can't stand when they do that. I'm okay with people smoking a few metres away.

Well, you are completely right then. Smokers should not be standing inside those windsheds. That's completely uncalled for. I'd make a scene if somebody did that, and I smoke!