I am afraid I am going to have to agree with puella on this one.
I have allergies and asthma. Usually they do not bother me, but the wrong brand of cigarettes (usually American ones, actually) can put me on my knees coughing and choking. I have passed out on the front steps of a mall, I collapsed wearing a "running around Europe-sized" backpack at an Irish ferry terminal as a guy was smoking right under the "No Smoking" sign.
I think anyone can do whatever "self-chosen self-destructive" activities they want, as long as it does not effect me. tsarina if I even visited I would expect to have to accommodate you smoking in your own house because that is your private space. I would take drugs, not go if I felt in the least sick, and be ready to leave if I started reacting. I *do* have a problem if I cannot enter my favourite store, or such places as hospitals and banks because of the gauntlet of smokers out by the doors.
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branchandroot
Another voice
Date: 2003-06-06 08:22 am (UTC)I have allergies and asthma. Usually they do not bother me, but the wrong brand of cigarettes (usually American ones, actually) can put me on my knees coughing and choking. I have passed out on the front steps of a mall, I collapsed wearing a "running around Europe-sized" backpack at an Irish ferry terminal as a guy was smoking right under the "No Smoking" sign.
I think anyone can do whatever "self-chosen self-destructive" activities they want, as long as it does not effect me.
So that is my tuppence.
Ekatarina