Smokers (Read 972 times)

It's not an infrequent occurrence during the winter to go for a run and pass through a cloud of pot smoke coming from someone's house or whatever. Something about the cold, crisp, still air makes it linger.

It doesn't bother me at all.

It seems to smell worse when it's raining out.  Don't know why.

For me, if there is someone driving in front of me smoking a cig, I can actually smell it.

The only time it really bothers me, though, is when it sort of mixes with someone's BO. 

There are three women who stand outside the door at our office and take smoke breaks.  I feel bad for them, they're treated like pariahs.  I always smile to them when some others act nasty, wave their hands to make the smoke go away, clearly trying to make some passive aggressive statement.

But, ultimately, they're the ones that could end that if they quit.

One place I worked at used to have a little "room" outside the door for smokers to stand to keep a little warm, dry, etc.  It had translucent white walls that let light through.  Well, after about a year, it was no longer white, but a nasty dark yellow color.

Two of my dad's famous sayings, after he quit: "Smokers are the most inconsiderate people on earth." and "There's no one as sanctimonious as a reformed whore."

Ha!  +1

We worked on lung cancer treatments....we had a conference room nicknamed "the smoking room" because outside the window was where all the people in the building who smoked went to light up.  Many of them worked on lung cancer treatments too.

I used to work in a major academic cancer center.  Smoking on the premesis was prohibited so in the winter you could look across the road and see a lot of docs and nurses out there freezing and and puffing away before they went back to treating cancer patients and/or people with smoking-related heart disease.

Agreed ~ Quit in 1999 after 1 year of loving to smoke and 11 years of trying to quit.  I actually believe the body is an amazing thing.  If someone were to smoke say 1 or maybe 2 cirgerettes per day max - It could probably keep up with clearing the posions and toxins out of the body.  I can not only have 1 ~ funny thing is when I smell smoke I long for the feeling, the rush of that 1st drag of the day.  I could start smoking a pack-a-day today if I let that 1 happen. 

I don't think so. But they do when they quit. Nasty, tough addiction.

Do smokers have any idea how nasty they smell?

I do not think so.  We have a woman here at work.  I call her the perfume lady.  I have arrived at the office several minutes after her and knew that she was there because I smelled the perfume.  This was outside of the building!  She smokes.  I think that the smoking has deadened her sense of smell.  My wife complains about several women who reek of perfume at her office.  Almost all of them smoke.

It is one helluva addiction.  

Yes, I have respect for those who successfully quit, it is hard enough for me to completely abandon beer in pursuit of quicker weight loss.

This is one case where I am glad I don't buy into the whole "don't knock it until you've tried it" mantra.

  I can't imagine what the other runners were thinking.

On a related note, 

Last night my wife and I went on a run in the park.  There is one side of our park that verrrry often smells like the mad reefer.  We must have been running REALLY close to the smoker because, man, it was STRONG.  We both stopped whatever we were talking about and laugh and commented about it.

Just then, another run sped past us, must have smelled it too and turned around and gave us the biggest death stare.  I think he thought we were running and smoking pot hahahaha.  We did not see the smoker anywhere, but still, do you really think people are going to be out for a run and smoking up?  hahahaha