"Steve B" wrote in message
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"Robert Green" wrote in message
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"Steve B" wrote in message
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Gunner my friend, I'm deathly allergic to tobacco and pot smoke. My
mother chain smoked cigarettes she she was pregnant with me and I
went cold turkey on nicotine at the age of one day. The only time I
wasn't crying was when I was breast feeding and getting a dose of
the drug that way. I was laying in the crib screaming "GIMME A DAMN
CIGARETTE!" but nobody understood what I was saying. As a child, I
had green slime running out my nose at all times. Tobacco smoke is
like pepper spray to me. I'm not the only person who reacts to in
that way as I've met more than one other person who has the same
reaction to the smoke as I have. If me and other people have such a
strong negative response to second hand smoke, it must be dangerous.
I wish it didn't affect me the way it does, it limits the number of
places I can go and people I can get around.

As a result of an 8 hour heart surgery, I cannot take being within
range
of
anyone smoking a cigarette, or smoking a cigar. There ought to be a
law
that anyone smoking a cigar in public can be shot with no consequences
to
the shooter.

Steve

My wife can smell someone smoking a cigarette in a car several 100' in
front
of us on the highway - at highway speeds, even with the windows closed.
Some people are just ultrasensitive to smoke, and tobacco smoke in
particular.

--
Bobby G.

I used to smoke, but haven't in at least ten years now. Now, my wife or I
can smell it a mile away, and if we come in contact with someone smoking,
can smell it on our clothes when we get home. I can tell when I'm within
ten foot of a smoker, even if they aren't smoking.

We were in New Orleans a while back and though we asked for a non-smoking
room, we were assigned to one that smelled as if someone had been
deliberately smoked to death inside it. The drapes, the bed covers, the
rugs all STANK of smoke to the extent that I had to wonder when they last
cleaned anything.

If you want to make yourself sick, buy small portable UV lamp and examine
the floors and the bedcovers. Yuk. Now, it's even worse. I've known two
people that have brought home bedbugs after staying at what most would
consider top-end hotel chains. If the guest before you had them, you'll get
them, too.

I got a $10 discount for complaining when something bit the hell out of me
in a motel in Kansas City.

Sometimes, when I buy something from Ebay, it's saturated with cigarette
smells (or worse). The last item I bought smelled of cherry pipe tobacco,
two smells that definitely DON'T belong together.

--
Bobby G.