I used to be like that. Live and let live. I also have never smoked before. But moving from somewhere smoking was shunned (California) to where it’s not (Connecticut), I no longer feel like reactions are excessive and/or revealing. Smoking intrudes upon others. I can’t go anywhere, no where, without the stent of…

*blushes* - I also SET my fine (VERY) curly hair (which I never do) and it simply would NOT brush out (Large curler-shaped curls on my head) so my hair was slicked back in a tight bun (with spit curls) and I wore “John Lennon” glasses. My date (band tux?) was my BF’s bro.

FOUND IT! Remember Gunne Sax? This is not me... but it is my dress. It matched (sort of) my date’s BAND tux. Barf.

When you’re in there for months, long-term parents tend to bond, and when we see newer parents coming in we try to be as open as possible for them in what is probably the scariest moment of their lives.

I’m so terribly, terribly sorry for your loss.

I am so sorry for your loss. I think your attempts to reason with this young mother was an incredible noble (and I am guessing anguishing) act.

Maybe because images of violence and images of smoking tap into different centers of the brain? Or because the social response to the two things is very different? I actually don’t know - I’m not being a smartass - it just seems likely to me that the two things aren’t necessarily equivalent, in terms of psychology and…

Had my dad not already been in the ICU for another thing when he went through alcohol withdrawal, it likely would have killed him; until then, I didn’t realize how tough that process is on the body. Although I never watched True Blood, I thought Ellis did a fantastic job as Shinwell, on Elementary. Very sad loss.

I’m a nonsmoker who grew up in a house and family of smokers, and I couldn’t believe the difference when I moved out and then came back to visit. My mother is a courteous smoker, and I think she should have the right to smoke in her own house, but now when she lights up when I’m around, it really affects me.

This is like, the fucking definition of revenge porn. Rob is so fucking disgusting and, regardless of anything else, she is the mother of his only child. He’s abusive as shit. Fuck the Kardashians, each and every miserable one.

You can really soak up all the rape culture by reading hot takes on how strippers, “hoes” and “thirsty ass” instagram models can never be violated in any way. And get a slick side helping from those “Team No One”, both are “trash” brigade.

The thing that finally made me quit was one of my best friends, who is a severe asthmatic, making me feel like absolute shit for smoking around my kids. I tried to justify and said things like “Oh, I only do outside, or if I am in inside it’s in my room, with the door closed and the window open” and she was like…

I think that one’s physiology changes after smoking. I never minded cigarette smoke before I smoked, but, after I quit, it bothers me. And the three times I smoked a full cigarette after quitting (a daily pack habit), I became violently ill. Which was a good thing because I couldn’t get hooked, again.

As an asthmatic whose nose, eyes, and throat will burn if I so much as smell smoky clothes, #sorrynotsorry. Your vice gives me chest pains, even if you are a “courteous smoker”.

Former smoker here... you don’t realize how much the smell affects you until you quit. It’s not just on your clothes, it’s coming from your sweat.

I’ve been re-watching Mad Men too. For some reason it’s way more triggering and annoying than first time around. I fast forward through most of Don’s scenes. He is so abusive. I don’t feel like he ever redeems himself. The way he throws that money in Peggy’s face. The way he turns to sex. They way he runs off…

No hate, but loads of pity. You’re paying heaps of money to permanently smell like ass, make the air around you smell like ass and incrementally kill yourself. And everyone hates you for it, but you still do it.

Well, the CDC has a point. Tobacco companies are sneaky bastards and will do anything to hook that all important youth market if there aren’t laws in place telling them they can’t do certain things. This is mostly an issue in low and middle income countries where they use bright packaging and sponsor basically all…

Depends on where you live. In Eastern Connecticut smokers are free and are never shunned. I hate it. There is smoke everywhere. Cigarette butts are thrown out of windows with abandon. To enter any store is to walk through smokers.

As a former smoker of 20 years, they shun you because you smell godawful. Even being within arm’s length of a smoker churns my stomach and gives me the most wretched headache.