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Originally Posted by Xera
For example, my son's teacher said, "When you walk in here, you smell like cigarette smoke and it's disgusting." Now I know I've been around people that stink. I've been around people that I just really wanted to introduce to Ivory soap and offer them the usage of my water hose for an hour to let them rinse some of the stink off. Do I actually do that? no, it would be very rude. So why is it not considered rude to say something like that to a smoker? Not only is that considered ok, when done to a smoker, but even commendable by some people, because she is speaking out against this horrible activity. How can incivility to anyone be considered acceptable? And what is it about smokers that makes it ok?
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Did it occur to you that perhaps she is concerned about your son's health and that is why she made that statement? If you don't smoke around your son, she doesn't know that.
And for the record, smokers do stink. That is one of the reasons I insisted on my boyfriend quitting when we first started dating. The smell would get on his clothes, in his hair, and on his hands in addition to his mouth, and it just made me feel sick. Even now I have friends that smoke, and when I get a whiff of that smell on them, it makes my stomach turn.
The fact of the matter is--if smokers want to smoke in public places, they're going to have to put up with me throwing up in, on, or around them. Is that okay?