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You take much more damage by car and industrial pollution than secondhand smoke, so there's no need to overreact for neighbor smoking in their property. Don't g
by kbart 10y ago
You take much more damage by car and industrial pollution than secondhand smoke, so there's no need to overreact for neighbor smoking in their property. Don't get me wrong, I don't smoke and hate when somebody does that beside me, but all this "ban smoking 10 meter from anywhere" looks pretentious to me -- there are much bigger health hazards living in a city. I see smoking as a small nuisance, like a cars passing by a window at night and it's a price you pay for living with a bunch of other people around.
- angry_octet 10y agoPeople are confusing the smell, a signal from the part-per-million sensor on their face, with getting a harmful dose. Most people have never had a serious addiction, so they don't understand that smokers NEED to smoke.
- brokenmachine 10y agoI don't care how you feel about smoking, I don't want to be exposed to it in my living room. If I can smell it, I'm exposed to it. There is no safe level of secondhand smoke [1]. I trust peer-reviewed studies over your "feeling" about what is harmful, and besides, the smell is disgusting, worse than literally any other smell I have experienced. I don't want that in my living room, plus it gives my partner asthma attacks. I don't think it's fair that someone should get asthma attacks because of someone else's addiction. Nobody needs to smoke anyway. There are many good options for quitting if you have motivation and willpower. [1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/tobacco/second-hand-smoke-fact-sheet#q6 https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...