getting caught off guard 2nd hand smoking is a bitch...usually happens when someone is walking in front of you

only when im on fire

Nope, never.

Yet another joke you're deciding to steal from me.

great minds think alike, some of us r just faster

If you're talking about going fast, yes. Then again, it's probably something else smoking for me.

Actually, I can't "just walk around them." I regularly find myself outside in crowded places where someone decides they need to feed their addiction, and I get a face full of their smoke.

If I walked up to you and broke wind in your face, would you simply ignore it? Or would you think that my releasing of a foul-smelling (but in this case non-carcinogenic) gas in your face was disgusting and antisocial? Would you tolerate it? That's basically what a smoker is asking non-smokers to do when they smoke in public.

Sorry, but I have no sympathy for smokers. They chose to smoke, then they complain about how discriminated against they are and in some workplaces demand to be allowed to go off and have a 15-minute fag break when they feel a bit stressed (leaving the non-smokers to pick up the slack in their absence!) They also whinge about their rights, while disregarding non-smokers' right to not breathe in their smoke.

This isn't a "Nazi" or "fascist" opinion (Godwin's Law strikes again!). If I were saying that smoking should be banned outright then you might have a point, but as I said I don't think it should be banned in private.

I agree with this post. Just thought I'd say that. Somebody smoking in a crowded area is absolutely the worst. Still hate the fact they can't smell themselves. :/

I smoke but I refrain when I'm around strangers or people who don't like it. I don't get how people can just go out and smoke in public in a crowded place...

nope, i'm 13,never tried smoking and don't plan to in case i end up getting addicted like a lot of people do.Someone actually came to our school to talk about smoking and the effects and after the 15minute presentation he said approximately 90 people would had died from smoking world-wide in the 15 minutes he was talking. so yeahh.. like i said never smoked hopefully never will

Used too smoke but quit after i started having throat problems

I've never heard of anyone actually being influenced by one of those shitty school talk things. You must be real gullible, eh? Hohoho.

Again, you are reducing the definition of "relax" to merely a function of the speed of the CNS -- I would say that merely having a slower heart rate, lower blood pressure, or breathing more slowly is not the end-all, be-all of relaxation. Plenty of stimulating things are also relaxing in a broader sense -- sex being an obvious example.

I'll agree that we are using different definitions. I am referring to relaxation in a physiological sense - this means relaxation as it relates to not only the Central Nervous System, but also the Sympathetic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System and also your internal organs at large. This is of particular interest to me, because I have a medical condition which can be triggered by both stress and 'eustress' (the good kind of stress, caused by positive events such as going on a highly anticipated vacation).

i did after i turned sixteen.
but soon quit.
now i want them back.