Public Service Announcement

[gemfyre]

People, it's not smokERS that I hate, it's smokING. Unfortunately, if you are smoking or have been smoking you will stink, it hangs around a lot longer than you think, and is a lot more noticeable than you think. If you are currently puffing away that reek is carrying a lot further than you think (often when I ping people for throwing their butts out of their cars, I'm first tipped off to the fact they HAVE a ciggy because I can smell the damn thing). It's comprimising my health and comfort. I don't like that. No, I HATE that, I DETEST that. And guess what - you CAN help it! Dont' give me some sob story about being addicted, or some bullshit about smoker's rights.

And I know every smoker that reads my tirades about littering says, "Oh I don't do that. Maybe not, but a lot of people who smoke cigarettes MUST DO or else we wouldn't have millions of butts anywhere but bins and ashtrays where they should be (where unfortunately, they continue to smell bad), and I wouldn't be pinging at least one driver a week for ditching their butt onto the road.

Thank you for reading.

Comments

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

And some of the students wonder how the teachers figure out they're having a puff before class...

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

They have no idea what they smell like :P

I have had smokers tell me they, too, hate the smell on others but can't tell when it is themselves. That and the fact that the addiction wins....

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

This so much. My co-worker smokes. She's a lovely person overall, but she reeks when she comes back from a ciggy break and is in total denial over it, she figures sucking on a mint afterwards makes it all better. Yet she complains about various other smells, some which don't even bother me.

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

A friend realised that she smelled intellectually but after being in a cloud of it for the last 10 minutes she no longer registered the smell so she honestly couldn't tell when returning to the room: her brain had filtered out the smell from her environment but could still smell new stuff that her brain had not habituated to.
Its akin to the reason why we are fairly bad at detecting our own BO :)

[kowren.livejournal.com]

Here Here Here!
I flash em with my lights when they do that I think it is disgusting littering like that. I always put my butts in an empty carton when I was driving and I quit smoking a year before I started trying for kids to try and clear some of the shit out of my system.

How do you ping them BJ?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

http://www.kabc.wa.gov.au/kab/litter-reporting/index.html

[agent0fchaos.livejournal.com]

I thought of you NONSTOP when I was having some troubles with some douchebag ILLEGALLY smoking inside the apartment building that I rented in Ireland ~ the nasty stank trailed through the vents INTO MY BEDROOM and stayed there, lingering, getting on my bath towels so bad I couldn't even use them. Oh it was awful >.<

[samara-47.livejournal.com]

We get free mints at work for the smokers. I think it is a bit unfair that the non-smokers get less of break time while the smokers are off to the smoking area several times a day.
But the thing with the littering is it is kinda hard to find a place to put your cigarette, you could be out in a designated smoking area but if there is no ash tray you can't put it in the bin, so there is no-where else to put it then the ground?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

There are portable ashtrays for that.

Just because a smoker is disorganised, it doesn't give them the right to litter.

[samara-47.livejournal.com]

Portable ashtrays?

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

http://www.buttsout.net/buttsout

Just one example out of many.