Once I was standing on a street corner waiting to cross, it's a busy city and there's a lot of traffic - lots of car exhaust and big diesel trucks going by stenching up the place. Some woman also waiting to cross glances over and sees I have a cigarette in my hand, and wouldn't you know it, she starts doing this fake hack hack ack urk ahem ahem sidling away and giving me this look out of the corner of her eye. The funny thing is that the cigarette wasn't lit. So just seeing a person with a cigarette is apparently enough to cause health problems in others I guess.
And here we find the extremists... The "anti" smokers. I understand that some people don't like cigarette smoke. I know lots of people that don't smoke. I wouldn't dream of lighting up in their car. My mother doesn't smoke. Not only do I not smoke at her house but when she visits I don't smoke while she's here. At least not inside. I have a balcony.
When I'm at work I stand outside and smoke. Sometimes non smokers come outside and chat with me while I do. Sometimes my mother stands out on the balcony or at the balcony door while I do. None of them pretend to be having a stroke because I'm smoking near them.
And now for some humour. Here's David Mitchel's take on the smoking ban. (And coffee just as a bonus.)
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