Smoking and diving

[adurso]

There, fixed it for ya.

If you wish to fix something for me please use correct grammar

 

[adurso]

Except it does affect me. When I'm on a dive boat and breathing in the beautiful ocean air and I suddenly get a lungful of carcinogenic burning nicotine, it affects me.

When I walk in or out of a restaurant and must pass through a crowd of ignorant, inconsiderate smokers that have a need to congregate outside the front door as they all light up at the same time and am forced to either hold my breath or breathe in a lungful of disgusting burning paper, it affects me.

When I write my monthly check for my health insurance premiums, it affects me, because when smokers have medical issues and the insurance company pays to treat those smoking induced issues, the amount I pay every month goes up.

When I get out of my car and walk across the parking lot towards my building and stoop down and pick up countless cigarette butts left by selfish, lazy smokers, it affects me.

When I'm driving down the road and I see a smoker flick their butt out the car window which pollutes my environment and sometimes causes fires, it affects me.

When I read statistics about the number of work days lost due to sickness associated with smoking and the devastating effect it has on the global economy, it affects me.

There we go!

Tell those awful people to stop doing things you believe impact you

 

[dmaziuk]

English has grammer now? Next your gonna tell me its got 'em declensions and inflections too?

(Edit: possessive it's needs no apostrophe)

 

[caruso]

Tell those awful people to stop doing things you believe impact you

It's not just a belief that when a smoker light up in my vicinity it impacts me, one way or another.

Just like when I fart, it impacts you.

 

[adurso]

It's not just a belief that when a smoker light up in my vicinity it impacts me, one way or another.

Just like when I fart, it impacts you.

Really?

I have zero sense of smell and burn tires for fun.

 

[caruso]

You anti smoking a$$hats are all the same.. Get a life, .. What ever happened to this "USA" country and live and let live..

Jim..

Maybe Jim thinks he can go up to a random woman on the street and grab her boobs too. Or walk into a store and grab money out of the cash register. Or do heroin on a city street. Because, "Hey it's a free country, live and let live and anyone that tries to curtail my freedoms is an a$$hat"

 

[caruso]

I have zero sense of smell

That's from the smoking. Hope it was worth it.

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[adurso]

That's from the smoking. Hope it was worth it.

Actually was from some military related stuff.

Good try though.

 

[caruso]

Actually was from some military related stuff.

Good try though.

Yes, sure it was.

 

[scrane]

The times I have encountered smokers on dive boats they have been most considerate. Even though I am put off by the smell of burning tobacco I cut them slack as being the victims of a very compelling adiction.
My Dad, as he declined from the effects of smoking related emphysema, would periodically unplug from his canned O2 to smoke a cigarette in the garden. We didn't criticize him because by then he didn't have a lot to live for.