No smoking means no smoking!

[Dorath]

And I have to take issue with the "fake coughing" accusation. No, I don't usually start hacking the moment a whiff a smoke comes under my nose. But how do you know it's "fake" if someone is coughing around you when you are smoking? Not that it's come up, but right now, I'm coughing randomly on my own spit. I'm recovering from a cold. Look at me wrong and I will start hacking. I imagine a facefull of smoke would most likely trigger a hacking fit in me right now. Hell, CLEAN air can cause a hacking fit in me right now, so I can't imagine what smoke might do. It would really kind of get next to me if I got accused of being a faker because someone blew smoke on me and I started hacking because it just pushed me over the edge.

If they're standing upwind and coughing, it's fake.

[Shabo]

When I was 16 and working at F-ly's, the town still allowed smoking in restaurants (but the state has banned it since then, thank goodness. Makes bars and pool halls so much better now!). I used to get stuck in the smoking section all the time when I was there, even though I don't smoke and don't enjoy the loverly secondhand smoke either. The manager's reasoning? The other waitresses (the ones that smoke) didn't want to work back there because it would make them crave cigarettes too much. Great. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to ruin my lungs at such a young age. Meh, money was good enough, and there were few enough smokers that they never had the place too full, but still. I'm just glad that it's all non-smoking now.

Yes, I also do not care if others smoke, as long as they smoke where they are supposed to and don't harass me about it. Which is usually the case, although my friend's mom and I got into a debate when the state was thinking about passing law to make all smokers go outside. She felt it violated her rights to be forced to go outside, and I felt it violated my rights to be subjugated to secondhand smoke on the inside, because no matter where you go in the restaurant, that smoke permeates and infiltrates everywhere. Not to the same extent as in the smoking section, but you can still smell it no matter where you are.

[BlaqueKatt]

OMG! I think I you!

yeah well-I don't like being a tool, and I also have an issue with leaving my DNA at a potential crime scene*-and so far my pocket has a 0% crime rate Though it does contain lots of cellophane and small bits of shiny paper**-as does my purse

*(knowing my luck if I ever did drop a filter someone would get mugged or something and my filter with DNA would be collected and become evidence-I need to cut back on the CSI)

**yes I make sure the wrapper and paper from my packs get properly disposed of as well

[myswtghst]

Like I said in my OP, I have nothing against smokers, it's just the ones who can't seem to follow the rules I mind. *shrugs* I enjoy people getting busted for breaking the rules.

I always was as respectful a smoker as I could manage, as far as going outside, etc. If I smoked in my apartment (which I am allowed to do, far as I know, under my lease), I always did so with a fan on near an open door, and I also have an air filter running constantly.

Part of the reason for the air filter, which is in my entryway area, is because my neighbors seem to feel that just inside the front door of our building is a good place to smoke. Which was annoying, but didn't really tick me off until I found a cig butt in the holder for junk mail next to our mail boxes. Ew.