Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:11pmif there is no way to get out of talking to a person who is smoking a ciggy at the moment, what do you do to avoid cancering up your lungs?
#1re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:20pmI try to breathe as little as possible. That or I take out my inhalor and fake an asthma attack. It would probobly just be easier to politley ask them not to, but I never really thought of that.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#2re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:22pmI guess you could stand off to the side and talk to them and just move if the wind blows the smoke your way, but that just seems somewhat rude.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#3re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:30pm
There is no escaping them. They walk in front of you on crowded city streets while their smoke blows into your face. If you are able to cross the street, you will only run into the same thing. There is no escape until it is banned from all public places.
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Updated On: 8/31/06 at 04:30 PM
WOSQ
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#4re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:32pmPut a plastic bag over their head.
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#5re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:34pm
Take the "ciggy" out of their mouth, burn them with it, punch them in the head (leaving them passed out on the ground), put the "ciggy" out if still burning, and enjoy the fresh air.
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Updated On: 8/31/06 at 04:34 PM
#6re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:40pmTurn around to breath and then look at him/her again.
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vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#7re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:46pmYeah, like breathing over your shoulder while swimming.
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deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#8re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:41pmI can see the problem if you are confined inside and people are smoking....but outside? Puhlease. Lighten up a bit.
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#9re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:57pmIf you're in the city, you'll have to deal with it. But if you're with another person in a home, just ask politely.
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#10re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:18pmI have severe asthma which is triggered by many things, one of which is smoke. I simply ask them not to smoke or I stand about 6 feet away from them upwind. If they won't respect my health then I will get far away from them enough so that I can breathe. In the city I just hold my breath when I have to walk through a smokey area.
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#11re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 10:23pmSARS mask? I try to just keep my distance. The worst is when people don't ask if it is okay to smoke in your car.
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#12re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:01pm
well, cruel, what I like to do is take the persons cigarette and put it out on their forehead. They rarely smoke around me again.
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Updated On: 9/1/06 at 11:01 PM
#13re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:25pmHolly, I had a mechanic smoke in my car when he test drove it to make sure the breaks worked after repairing them. I got in my car and about 2 minutes later I could bearly breathe. I had to pull over and let the car air out before I could get back in. After I got my breathe back I called them and let them have it. It was awful.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#14re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:26pmIck! When I bought my car, the previous owner was a smoker. It took forever to get the stink out. (PS Vanilla worked.)
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#15re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 11:28pmVanilla is great! Put a few drops on a cotton ball and put it in your fridge (or other stinky place) and the smell will go away.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#16re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 1:05am
"Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?"
Take up smoking and avoid the middle-man.
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#17re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 1:15amI find stabbing the person forcing the smoke upon you is a good solution.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#18re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 1:31am
...or...you could politely inform them that smoke bothers you and if they are anyone worth talking to, they will do something to remedy the situation.
Akiva
Kringas
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/05
#19re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 4:08amA passive-aggressive fake asthma attack is the way to go.
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kelzama
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/04
#20re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:02amI generally (and genuinely) start sneezing. If the smoker makes no effort to redirect the smoke, I make no effort to redirect the boogers.
#21re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 9:51amStop breathing.
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#22re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 10:32am
I'm going to order these little postcards and hand them out to every single smoking person I pass on the street.
*snark*
When I lived in San Francisco, there were for some reason TONS of smokers in my neighborhood, several of whom lived in my building, and a large number of them smoked CIGARS on the street.
Every now and then, I would stick a can of Lysol in my bag, and if I ran into one on the street, I would spray it at them.
There is NO need to spread that vile poison on the street.
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#23re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 1:18pm
My little sister started coughing really loud, when a guy was smoking next to her.
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jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#24re: Best Ways To Avoid Second-Hand Smoke?
Posted: 9/1/06 at 1:40pmWhy do smokers feel that they have the right to drop their cig butts all over on the street? It's against the law to litter so how do they get away with it? It's disgusting to see those things all over the sidewalk.
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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"Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu"
from "Can't Stop The Music"
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"When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth"
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"Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.
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