The problem with this entire fucking thread is the original question. The OP is giving us two two unrelated statements and asking us to pick and either or, and its slightly offensive.
What I have to say? Yea, live in a city for a year, thats probably worse for your lungs that living in the countryside with a smoker.
if you are outside, and bitching about the smoke hurting you, bullshit, you do NOT smoke half a cig for each one of mine. Theres no way, its too diluted in the MOVING outside air.
So basically? Stuff it.
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Originally Posted by high_jinx
Also, a few people posed the point to me that they always ask before they light up...
I'm here to tell you as a non smoker, thats usually a no win for me. If i know the person asking and am to have any further relations with them, and ESPECIALLY if they are a friend of mine... there's no way i can say, "yeah i mind" or "can you wait till we get back to the house" to them. If i do then I'm the bad person all of a sudden because smokers as a rule have the same sanctimonious/defensive attitude displayed in this thread. Any objection on my part will negatively impact our friendship/relationship.
Because I think THEY are a good person, i hold my tongue. i let them get away with stinking me up and harming my health. The most i do is try to nudge them or help them if they express a desire or timetable to quit.
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And sorry dude, you need new friends. I always ask, and many many a friend has asked me not to. Did it hurt our relationship? Fuck no, I just waited until we got somewhere more convenient.