If everyone would just watch Reefer Madness we'd all stop smoking.

I want an Egg McMuffin...

It's not faint for everybody. I can smell my mom smoking in the front yard while in my upstairs room facing the back yard. Now imagine how I am when the source is closer.

They should coat the boxes in sticky, foul smelling glue that doesn't wash off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ySCcnoo3c

Someone posted this.

LOL. :rofl: So true!

After over a year, you already had it beat. What happened?

I'll try to take a less hash stance here on this; smoking in -30 degree weather svcks, but no one ever forced you to start smoking. Those of us that don't smoke, are continuously forced to deal with the smell and dangers of second hand smoke.

Back when I still drank (a little over five years ago) I would go out to the bars and stay all night long drinking and having a good time with my friends. The next day I would wake up and realize just how bad my clothes, smelled due to the cigarette smoke. Think about the people that that work in jobs such as those that have to deal with smoking every day and what it is doing to their lungs.

I recently had one of my aunts pass away from lung cancer. She was a non smoker, but had been around smokers (lived live one and worked around the rest) most of her life.

Folks, second hand smoke and all of it's dangers is real, and poses real dangers to our health. Just because you choose to smoke doesn't mean that we (non smokers) should be forced to put up with a smell (and health hazards) that many non smokers find disgusting.

This.

Though I think it's odd that the tobacco groups are more outraged over the latter than the former.

Same here. And it clings to smokers. There's this one girl in my genetic course, heavy smoker. She smelled like an ash tray and everything in a 10foot radius smelled like smoke, it was disgusting. Not all smokers are that way, though.

A lot of students at my uni smoke, and I hate it when they crowd around the building entrances in bad weather. It isn't just that I have to walk past them, it's also that the polluted air gets swept into the building through the doors, so the first 15 to 20feet of the lobby areas smell like someone smoked right in there.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11844169

And http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8503870.stm has me nervous.

on a slightly related note: There was also a study that found that outside air, due to clean air protection laws, is often less polluted than the air in buildings (office, home, etc).

I like how the OP said it's a brilliant way to stop smoking....and no one agreed.

I can't believe the the people who work at the DHHS (that's the Department of Health and Human Services, for those who don't live in the US) haven't been fired and/or run out of Washington.

Do they really think that the reason people smoke is because they don't know that it is bad for their health? :facepalm:

There is a part in the video where he questions why smokers don′t cough while non smokers do. Well if I understand it right it's because the first defense the body applies when it comes into contact with smoke is to cough to clear out the lungs, but at a certain point the body will re-focus its main attention towards trying to break down the chemicals of smoke rather than inducing coughs in the individual who smokes or has to be around smoke. Most if not all smokers start out coughing precisely because of this and then stop it.

Also I mean little offense to that comedian but he′s standing there bashing non smokers and then he died young of cancer. He did mention he was aware of what he was doing to himself though I will admit.

Yeah, well, I've never met a single smoker in my entire life that didn't know what they were doing to themselves. I fail to see how anyone can boast about that. Eventually I just became sick of being so ignorant, there is no excuse.

He was obviously speaking about those people who start coughing just to show the smoker that they don't like smoking. A lot of people do it on purpose to show their disapproval.

Frankly I never cared when I was a smoker, but I never blew smoke on to anyone's face out of common courtesy.