[ly*chee]

Sorry if there's a thread already like this!! >_< But I didn't see any in the last couple pages.. or I'm blind [if there is a thread feel free to leave the link!]


But how do you avoid second hand smoking??
Since people will never quit as a whole...there's gotta be other ways to save our lungs right?


I usually try to stay inside a building, and find another route to where I'm going where there are no smokers.
But you can only do so much right?

So I'm wondering what other methods there are to avoid inhaling second hand smoke.
Since it still affects our health even if we're not smoking.

I'm getting tired of standing at the bus stop and holding my breath.

[Carmen.]

Hmmmmm good question.

I don't think it's completely unavoidable, which is really disgusting.
I can see that you definitely are trying to decrease your exposure.

I think that if it's say for a couple seconds, say, for example, you're just walking by a smoker, it shouldn't have too big of an impact.
BUT if you have someone in your household who smokes, that's the biggest way to become exposed to secondhand smoking.

Yeah I really hate it when people smoke at the bus stop, but I mean there's only so much we can do though, right?

Okay this post doesn't really answer any question, but I'm just sorta...discussing secondhand smoking.

[motheritried]

If they are smoking at the bus stop, try to stand with the wind blowing the opposite direction of the smoke, so their smoke drifts away from you, not towards. If there is no wind, then I guess stand further away from them?

[Pogichinoy]

Impossible to complete avoid it, however just simply move away from any smokers.

Fan the smoke away perhaps?

[mistahkimchi]

even w/o second hand smoking... if u live in like a city aka NYC, LA etc. ud still harm ur lungs.

[ly*chee]

Yes I can understand it'd be difficult to avoid it as a whole.
There was a bylaw passed here that you need to be at least 5m from an entrance when smoking.
Sadly nobody follows that.

Luckily though, I don't live in a heavily polluted area...nor with a smoker.

I'm not exactly gonna live in a bubble either >_< But thanks for the suggestions.

[Carmen.]

Yes I can understand it'd be difficult to avoid it as a whole.
There was a bylaw passed here that you need to be at least 5m from an entrance when smoking.
Sadly nobody follows that.

Luckily though, I don't live in a heavily polluted area...nor with a smoker.

I'm not exactly gonna live in a bubble either >_< But thanks for the suggestions.

Yeah where I live there's the whole 5m thing, but not a lot of people actually follow that rule.
Like, I'd walk out of the mall, and people are smoking right by the doors.

And it's so gross because the smell just drifts in and you can smell it in the mall.

[scotty]

you can always carry your own oxygen tank and mask with your around.
although that would be a little extreme.....

[yudith_yui]

i feel bad for second-hand smoker. i really do. personally i am a smoker, but please save the 'smoking is bad' talk because i know it already. however, i never smoke in restaurants, bus stops, train stations, or other public places where people can get bothered by it. i only smoke in my room with me standing by the window or specific places where you can smoke.
anyhoooo... i completely understand how second-hand smokers would feel all pissy cuz i feel the same way when i'm eating in a restaurant and some idiot lights up next to me. but i guess what you can do to avoid is to maybe stand few meters away from that person. well either that or water guns.

[StealthGnome]

I went downtown last Wednesday around the time people got off work.

It was the worst experience of second hand smoke ever. Blegh.

[-anika.]

oh actually when ever i go to school, i always see smoker's.
and it's kind of hard to avoid them.
but for me, what i usually do to avoid them is cover my mouth and nose
so the smoke won't go through my lung's and into my body.
so, erm, pretty much yea. that's how i avoid secondhand smoke.

[hiimpaulkim]

Is it weird or am I addicted to "smoking" when I feel kind of good around smokers?

Iono, my dad and my two older brothers smoke 24/7 and I'm always around them.

So 11 years pass and everytime they smoke, I HATE IT. But then after about like 1 minute of them smoking, I get used to the smell and the more they smoke it, the more I like being next to them/smelling it.

AM I a potential "smoker"? I've tried smoking before like when I was like 6 (lol don't ask) and I didn't like it. More recently like about 3 months ago and it was too "pure" for me.

But I still like second-hand smoking.