I don’t like the smell of cigarette smoke, it does make my eyes water. but i have a brother and a few friends that do. i've been around it so long - I learned how to deal with it. Hold my breath or stand / sit down wind of the smoke. I have so much shit to worry about some one smoke beside me or near me is the lest of my worries. Second hand smoke- well I’m going to die anyway so what doe sit matter. @ Abi> You can be allergic to anything even water. Where in the United States do they still allow smoking inside?cracker barrel restaurant Quote:If Im smoking where its legal to smoke, and someone has a problem with it, and why don't the person wiht the problum with it just move. i would. no one is making some one that don't liek smoke stay beside a smoker. I guess at a outside concert that would apply.. Bust still why not remove from what you don’t like?
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Beware smokers!!!!
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One thing you have to realize about the city is that it is RIDICULOUSLY overcrowded. And we were in Times Square.. LORD. My friends had made about their 3rd stop to a McDonalds. There was so many people inside and it was already 88 degrees, the group of people just made it hotter so my friend and I were standing outside where it was cooler. Unfortunately, that Mcdonalds was so crowded it was even crowded outside, we could barely move (FAT AMERICANS! lol jkjk I love Mickey D's too) so we decided to stay in that one spot since we couldn't go anywhere. I saw that lady right in front of me take out her cig and light it and I immediately thought "I am SO dead". If anything SHE should have moved to a less crowded area knowing it's rude to smoke when you're amidst a bunch of people let alone kids. Her smoke was smothering and I seriously had a panic attack trying to get out of the crowd of people. Think I scared the crap out of my friend the way I was coughing and trying to push people out of my way so we could get out of there and away from her.
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Originally Posted By: *CR!*Where in the United States do they still allow smoking inside?I don't know about bars and restaurants thoughout the US but you can smoke in Vegas and Indian Casinos...
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I was in band camp other wise I wouldve put my 2 cents in. Ok first point is that I understand all the toxins and yadayadayada but when people are about to pass out from your smoke stop. Our DQ is outside and in illinios you are aloud to smoke outside. Two in my town you can't just ask for sone one to stop smoking because they done. Three it is my health not yours. If I'm out exposing my self to toxins and crap it's my choice but I do not want to be exposed to smoke and it's not just cig smoke that I have probs with it's all smoke but cig is the worst. Four I have watched my cousin go through the whole drug crap and it started out with cigs and he was high or somthing when he sexually abused me so I am agianst cigs. I don't hol it agianst the person I just don't like there decision and they don't have to make me suffer for there decision. Five the whole some one asked you to put out a cig even on private property was ok to ask you don't know how that person was. It should be illegal on public property or in a special tent that will clean the air before it is released back out. Alot of things should be illegal but they aren't is what it comes down to.
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I don't mean to pick at both you and Japan, but if you two have such a huge problem with people smoking outside (where it's legal), then simply move.Japan, I know it was crowded, but perhaps you should've went inside the McD's if you have such an issue with the smoke. I'd rather be pushed around in a crowd than stand in a cloud of smoke if that was the choice. And if there was a "a less crowded area", shouldn't you've moved there instead of her? Seeing how you said it was overcrowded, then she didn't have much of a choice either.I hate cigarette smoke myself and I'm not a smoker, but seeing how there are laws for smoking, then horray. However, we also need to compromise. I personally move away when I'm around smokers.
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I would have but our DQ has like three tables a close together. And the were two I quote from them not me "middle age fat women" and one senior citezen so the whole moving thing doesn't always work.
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Then move to your car or get inside the establishment or find some other alternative. If it's legal for people to smoke outside the DQ you're at, then there's nothing you can do.
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Yep I'll remember that. And DQ is all outside.
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Apparently you've never seen Times Square lolhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/martindew/954868064/http://www.flickr.com/photos/andreiv87/3647245979/The Mcdonalds we were at was right next to Ripley's and Madame Toussaints. I don't know why it was overly crowded in that particular area. OD. People like to just stand around apparently. To be honest though, I really shouldn't have been there in the first place. I "like" people but not that much. It's bad enough getting groped (wanted to start smacking people around). It was just a spur of the moment thing. I'm usually very aware when I'm out and about to steer clear of the smokers. But she totally caught me off guard. I almost felt like James Bond trying to dig my way through the pile of people. For some reason "excuse me" doesn't even get you through lol. But it's all good. By the way, there was no possible way of getting into Mickey D's... at all. It was hot like hell. It's all good though. I just regret being among the "rare" that react that way to cig smoke. I have a family full of smokers, you think I'd be used to it by now.
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That is just one of the things i love about vegas! nevada period actually. Where adults can be adults.
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reading through the various commentary...There are concerns of health verses freedom. There is a line to walk and that line is generally blurred by bias and by political will.Cigarette smoke kills. This we know. The degrees of danger vary somewhat in opinion but there is no real science nor statistics that don't support the final answer.Cigarettes are addictive.Cigarettes are legal.One has the right to smoke while another has the same right to not smoke. The problem is that the smoke itself is mobile. If I'm drinking, I'm not exposing those around me to alcohol (unless I'm yelling and starting fights). If I'm smoking, that's a different story.So how do you decide who's right trumps whom? Does the smoker force the non-smoker to inhale smoke or does the non-smoker force the smoker to inhale air?Like everything, we have to try to find a balance and that's never easy. I think is fair to ban smoking in restaurants. Maybe it's fair to ban it in bars. It's definitely fair to ban smoking in cars with juvenile passengers. It's not fair to ban smoking on patios, private clubs or homes.As far as allergies, well, too bad. Sorry but the world can't change to accommodate a few individuals. My son can't take a peanut butter sandwich to school because there might be a child who is allergic, somewhere in the building. Many businesses ban perfume/cologne on the same principal. That's not balanced.What's the final answer? I don't think there is a true answer other than people really need to learn a bit of mutual respect and common decency. As if that would ever happen.
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Chance, that site fails to make an important distinction between the working of toxins and carcinogens. For ordinary toxins (e.g. nicotine or arsenic) there is a level that will kill you, lower levels that will make you more or less sick, and a safe level below which there are no detectable effects.However for carcinogens (formaldehyde and benzene are mild carcinogens, but the main potent ones in smoke are the polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons), it's different. There it's about risk. The lower the amount, the lower the probability of getting cancer, but if you do get cancer, it will be just as lethal as if you got it from a high level of the carcinogen. This is because a cancer starts from just a single bad cell, and this can occur as a result of a single molecule of carcinogen. There is therefore no fully safe level above zero, and the acceptable levels set by agencies are based on their estimate of acceptable risk, which others may disagree about. Any increase of levels causes an increase of risk, and it is a matter of judgement as to whether it is worth it.