Smokers vs Asthmatics

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Please, no flames, I just want to get a sense of the community.

I smoke. Wish I could quit but can't. Non smoking rooms I can understand. 100% smoke-free hotels including outdoors poolside is just fucking stupid.

Now that would be in interesting read.

and smacks of a desire on your part to generate yet another flame-filled thread.

That may indeed not be what was on your mind, but it sure appears to be such.

Redstone

by second hand smoke - you just have to be human.

My nephew, my sister's son, was born with asthma and allergies to just about everything. He was in and out of the hospital the first 15 years of his life. It kept him from sports he would have excelled at just as his academic record has. He had to take nebulizer treatments sometimes 2-3 times a day when he was little. Now he uses an inhaler or the Disc thing. Not sure. He is in his second year of college.

When he was little and would have an asthma attack, the struggling to breathe, the look in his eyes of not understanding and fear, his chest cavity concaving and puffing out trying to get some air. It was horrible for him. It's not as bad now.

I have always been respectful with my smoking. If I'm in someone's house for the first time, and I do not see anyone smoking, I ask them if they would mind me stepping outside to smoke a cigarette. Most of them are polite and tell me I do not have to go out, but I know they are just being considerate. They do not want that smell in their house and I do not blame them.

I wish I had never picked one up. I've tried to quit and feel like I'm going to lose my mind. I think that insurance companies would cover a week or even two for treatment as inpatient as they do for people with alcoholism. It's just as physically addictive. Same as food is to some people.

Regarding allergies, one thing I never ever hear anyone say anything about are these people who bathe in their cologne/perfume, whatever. They will come into enclosed areas (elevators)and leave and you can still smell them hours later.

Any kind of perfume/cologne gives me an instant headache. My nose locks up on me and I cannot breathe. They are going to have to not allow those people not into buildings or do their business 25 feet from the entrance. Seriously here, perfume and cologne makes me physically ill, but no one will ever bring that up but they do with smoking.