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Fact: 250,000 people die from second-hand smoke every year. They are not smokers, but they live with them, so they breathe in more smoke than the actual smoker.  Thus, they are in more danger from smoke than the smokers.  Many of them are babies, and children, so they did not have a choice.

Fact:  90 percent of children who are raised in a smoking household end up being adult smokers.

Someone smells like smoke. I can barely stand to sit here. Clenching my teeth, I have a headache, everywhere near. A friendly smoker has sat next to me, oh, dear. I jump up, because her smell is killing me, so clear. I am an asthmatic, and I cannot breathe next to a smoker, I think. In the nicest way I have to say, politely, if you smoke, you stink. Your breath stinks, and stench comes out of your pores that are no longer pink. If you do not agree, you are a smoker, and no offense, but you stink. The only thing more smelly and more dangerous to me is Patty Perfume. Patty wears so much perfume that an asthmatic like me has to leave the room. I jump up and move an aisle or two over so my breathing can resume, But Patty Perfume follows me, triggering a cough that blows me to the moon. If I am lucky, I will merely throw up, after my cough will not quit. There is often a cup that I can use to do a small dainty spit. But when Smoker Sherry and Perfumed Patty both come sit next to me, I cannot breathe, and I choke, my eyes water, I fall down on my knees. They are both my worst nightmare, individually, and together. I cannot attend church now, I pretend I am under the weather. Should I put my life in danger, go to church, and pretend all is okay? And hope Smoker Sherry and Perfumed Patty do not attend that day? I might sound picky, set in my ways, and such, but need I remind you? When you make your choices, you could be sealing other people’s fates too.

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Date: 11/18/2018 5:22:00 PM
Agree Caren … tobacco stench is certainly perfume. Never being a smoker, its taken me a long time to realize smoking is a powerful smelly addiction, however, smokers need to smoke well away from eatery's etc. and definitely not inside the home - thank you Caren - Lindsay
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/18/2018 5:31:00 PM
Thank you Lindsay. And it is horrible for their children who are captives in a car for hours at a time full of second-hand smoke.
Date: 11/18/2018 3:50:00 PM
Bravo for venting your spleen Caren, I too struggle with the stench of smoke and overpowering perfume . I do have an inhaler for animal fur allergy but its up to me to keep away from them, but the people are responsible other stenches that invade our lungs :-( hugs Jan xx
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/18/2018 5:31:00 PM
I did not even include things that come in aerosol cans that make smells in houses, they also affect me.
Date: 11/17/2018 11:57:00 PM
It's a hard call but, smokers should not be offended; many people really have problems with the smoke. My older sister smoked and died of lung cancer; I'm reminded of a friend I worked with who just died because her machine stopped on her in the middle of a stormy night and she suffocated to death; she smoked about a pack a day when I worked with her, years ago. It's got to be hard on an asthmatic.
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Date: 11/18/2018 12:02:00 AM
I truly doubt I could offend them any more than it offends me when I CANNOT BREATHE! And I feel so sorry for the babies that die every year from smoke inhalation, due to second-hand smoke. So I can be a bit offensive here.

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