Tinman - I respect your right to choose who to buddy with.
I guess I assume that I am either diving with a buddy who I know well or one I don't know at all, in the latter case you have to be prepared to an extent for 'surprises', if they smoke, then thats just one less surprise.
If it was likely to be a strenuous dive or for that matter involve any level of deco I would consider careful if I thought either of us would be unable to do the dive.
Maybe a more interesting question is how would you know your buddy isn't a smoker thats run out of cigs or a asthmatic who has satisfied the organisers they are ok to dive ?
I guess I assume that I am either diving with a buddy who I know well or one I don't know at all, in the latter case you have to be prepared to an extent for 'surprises', if they smoke, then thats just one less surprise.
If it was likely to be a strenuous dive or for that matter involve any level of deco I would consider careful if I thought either of us would be unable to do the dive.
Maybe a more interesting question is how would you know your buddy isn't a smoker thats run out of cigs or a asthmatic who has satisfied the organisers they are ok to dive ?