Smoking..as punishment?

[Chasey_Lane]

Originally posted by mainman

[RodRugg]

My grandma smokes in her sewing room and them's cigars. I choke my head off everytime I have to go in there to get her Bible or needles or cigars. Whenever she makes curtains or a tablecloth she smokes three cigars in a row. She smokes and smokes until that bird she has starts screaming or my dad starts yelling for her to open a window. She hates to open that window and says she likes to keep it closed and smoke a cigar three or four times. She likes to smoke a whole cigar right before bed and smoke it again while she sleeps. She dares anybody to open that door and let any of her smoke out. My dad says that room is ruined and should be cut right off the house.

[justin anemone]

My dad used to smoke a pipe. I remember, as a child, taking LONG trips with my family in the wintertime with all the windows closed while he puffed away.

To this day I'm (cough) perfectly (hack) fine (schnarf)...

[darkriver4362]

Originally posted by Hessian
Sitting in a bank parking lot on Saturday: Beside me is a PU with a young (10year old) boy. Beside him is an older woman puffing away on a cigarette..the windo is open just a crack but as I watch, the kid pulls his shirt up and starts breathing through his shirt...with another hand he starts wiping his eyes.

Moments later an adult male comes out of the bank, hops in the driver seat and immediately lights up his cigarette. The Kid, squeezed between these two caring adults is vainly fanning the smoke away from him...and they pull away.

Now I have not come out on the soap box before against smoking...naturally I don't like it around my table at dinner, or walking through a foreign airport. BUT

At the very least...that was a cruel thing to put that boy through. Heck, he's wheezing for some fresh air and both adults obliviously are choking him....isn't that abuse? If they had spanked him in the Safeway they'd be facing charges, but stuff him full of toxins day after day...that's no problem.

I agree with Hessain...seriously, no joke....Even though I am a smoker, I will not smoke in the car with 1. Infants 2. Old People 3. Anyone unless I ask them if it bothers them first.

[Elle]

Originally posted by justin anemone
To this day I'm perfectly fine.

What was MM's response to Chasey???

[Ken King (Premo)]

Isn't it possible that there was another stench that was bothering the child, it might not have been the smoke?

[SilverIntrepid]

Pet peeve #12: Idiots that smoke cigs/cigars with their windows cracked only one inch. Kid is in the back seat hacking up a lung. That s*it really ####es me off.

[vraiblonde]

Hell. I'm a smoker and I hate people that won't ventilate. My ex would smoke in the car and wouldn't roll the window down because he was "cold". I'm like, "Cold...dead...your choice."

[darkriver4362]

Originally posted by vraiblonde
Hell. I'm a smoker and I hate people that won't ventilate. My ex would smoke in the car and wouldn't roll the window down because he was "cold". I'm like, "Cold...dead...your choice."

I understand, this guy at work does it.......I can't stand that...I smoke moderately but still that even burns the hell outta my eyes.

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?