Posted July 09, 2015
dtgreene: Actually, I disagree about the whole "control freak" claim. For one thing, it is usually more than 15 seconds. For another, even if it doesn't cause death in small doses, it is still annoying. As a (amateur) player of wind instruments, I need to be able to take in as much air as I can, and cigarette smoke doesn't help with that.
Also, it smells awful.
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monkeydelarge: More than 15 seconds, how? If someone is smoking, you can just walk away from him or her. OR you could ask the person who is smoking to move to another location. Also, it smells awful.
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And the second hand smoke thing is crap. If second hand smoke killed people, everyone who ever worked at a bar would have died from lung cancer a long time ago. I would think that bartenders and waitresses get a bit more exposure to smoke than 15 seconds at a time.