Never smoked, but grew up at a time when everyone elso almost did.
Remember being at family get togethers where you could see the smokey cloud. Had to leave as a kid because it burned my eyes.
With the exception of that kind of assault, I really don't mind smoke much. In a restaurant will sit in the smoking area if we can be seated instead of waiting for a seat in the non smoking area. And don't care if the hotel room is smoking or not.
Just me. The stuff generally does not bother me.
Talking about cigarette smoke. Pipe and cigars have no places in restaurants I believe.
You hit upon something I was going to bring up, auntdot.
What I have noticed in my life of watching things go from smoking to non-smoking, and myself go from smoking to non-smoking, is that it's the people who have quit smoking that put up the biggest stink about smokers. I like to call them "
born again non-smokers".
You
rarely find someone who hasn't taken up smoking in their entire life complaining, but run into someone who has quit sitting at another table or four bar stools down catch a whiff of smoke wafting through the air and you'd think it got blown directly into their face. The contortioning and faces they make should be on funniest videos. That's just something I've noticed.
Me, I rarely smoked in my home, never at work until shortly before I quit/retired, though it was a shop, never after a meal or first thing in the morning, but I still managed to smoke a pack if I was out drinking and shooting pool at night, or not drinking and playing a couple rounds of golf that day, which very often ended up in a loooong nineteenth hole. So I was a heavy smoker in a small time frame. I never liked the way my clothes smelled the next day, so I was doing a lot more laundery, but never complained about others even after I quit, as long as they were being "polite" about smoking and not blowing it directly at me, which doesn't happen to often when you're out because of fans and ventilation.
Smoking is not high on my list of things others do that bother me.