Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, I have never tried smoking because the smell makes me want to chuck up. I feel no animosity to smokers and in general feel that people should be allowed to take their drug of choice, legal or illegal. OTOH smokers do ruin a nice walk for me. Maybe I have a good sense of smell, but I even get a whiff in the country when a car drives by with someone smoking in it. Nowadays in town I walk outside taking deep breaths between clusters of smokers collected outside having a fag. Getting into airports is a pain -every- door is completely surrounded by smokers, one is kippered by the time you get in, I have sussed the least obnoxious routes into the airports I use most. Personally I would not be upset by someone injecting themselves with heroin or snorting cocaine in my presence, but I find the smell of smoke truly obnoxious. Particularly cigars, they make me feel homicidal. I guess everybody is different, but smokers inevitably impose themselves on their surroundings more than drinkers and imbibers of other drugs which do not burn. Rant ends. Frank On 16 Sep, 2009, at 21:09, Nathan wrote: > To prohibit someone from smoking outside borders on fascism. And I > do not use that word lightly. > > Nathan (who quit 3 months ago but does not hate smokers) > > On 16/09/2009, at 21:48, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>> ... and also got himself a lot of, I suspect much desired, >>> publicity, >>> much like the recent Kanye West/Taylor Swift brouhaha here. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Dick >>> >>> >> It has been solidified that outrageous behaviour is a commodity. >> I always said an once of notoriety is worth a pound of fame. >> >> I'm hoping that brash rude behavior gets tolerated less. >> Normally I'm big on "tolerance". >> Intolerance the only thing I don't tolerate. >> >> But we're supped to be tolerant towards people smoking in parks is >> today's >> NY headline. >> To me that is not a "tolerance" issue at all. >> That is a "get our of my face with your &^%#$ cigarette" issue. >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information