I pulled up in a beach side carpark.
The where a group of 6 male workers standing around the work vehicle.
All 6 where smoking. The stench was overpowering.
I moved my vehicle to be upwind of them.
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Really canāt stand the smell of cigarettes. I have never smoked in my life and fail to see what anyone gets out of it. To me, you just as well roll up a Ā£/$ note and set fire to it, to end up poorer and with heath problems later in life. It was such a godsend when legislation came in which banned smoking from buildings.
I remember a time a few years ago when we were in Switzerland and sitting in a restaurant, and some guy lit up as we were eating, as apparently this was legal at the time. Apart from making us feeling sick and nauseous, I had to restrain myself from punching his lights out, as it really was offending me and we never went into another restaurant again.
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That was probably a gathering of every smoker living in WA, a smokers convention perhaps?
Less than 8% of Australian adults smoke according to stats.
Like Graham I find people smoking in restaurants in Asia a bit disturbing, here you canāt even smoke in railway stations, near entrances to buildings or even in a private car with a someone under 16.
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That is still 2,160,000 people blowing their smoke into peoples faces, noses, mouths.
Have you ever seen those smokers outside buildings, where a sign saying - āno smoking within 5 metersā be pulled up for smoking outside the door?
I was at a hospital once, went past one of those no smoking signs and there were nurses puffing away.
It is never policed from what I have seen.
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Maybe they donāt normally smoke, but they are just killing time, nothing else to do, the one with the smokes insisted and the others were to polite to refuse.
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Smokers are as rare as open cars, rarely see them, might see one or two smokers a day. However there are two tobacconists in my suburb but I think smokers carry on their addiction behind closed doors
I have seen security move a smoker away from the doors of the mall on one occasion, they have provided a bench and an ashtray well away from the doors though you rarely see anybody using them.
It is quite a surprise to smell tobacco smoke when I am out.
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I used to be a smoker but havenāt smoked for around 38 years. Seeing smokers is rare but I donāt know how people who do can afford it these days. Iām never upset by being near a smoker and never tempted to go back to smoking either.
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I used to be a smoker; I quit (cold turkey) as soon as I hit 35 years old; and I am now 56 years old. There are times where I get a craving for one but, I donāt touch one. As for vaping (no thanks) in my opinion; thatās not really smoking so, I wonāt bother doing that. Also, I never smoked a joint; canāt stand the smell (yuck) 
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Plenty of young people here vape , I saw on news lots bad chemicals
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I used to smoke these :
Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet.
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I rarely see people smoking these days. Plenty people vaping though.
I quit smoking in 2007 cold turkey, was easy because I was ready to quit.
I donāt miss smoking at all and on the odd occasion I do smell smoke it stinks vile. I think oh hell, did I used to smell like that!
Apart from finding the smell awful I really donāt mind other people smoking, itās their choice, their life. I just move away and get on with my day.
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I was just enjoying a fag after a 13 mile training run and out of the blue just collapsed with a heart attackā¦
That was in 2004 and it was my last ever cigaretteā¦
I donāt mind the smell of smoke, but not while Iām eating or in a confined space, but that rarely happens these days. It might just be a whiff of smoke when I pass some smokers outside.
If they donāt mind my garlic breath or smelly flatulence, then I donāt mind them having a fagā¦
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Many years ago I used to smoke . I stopped because I had a bad cold for a few days, so didnāt go near a cigarette. Getting better I thought to myself, if I have stopped for the last few days lets try for another week, this went on for month after month and the withdrawal symptoms were hell. Looking back on those days I would say to get it right out of my system so as not to even think about smoking took around 3 years
yes I went cold turkey as he saying goes . Only sheer stubborness stopped me for taking the habit up again
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I have never smoked but know plenty who had no choice but to go cold turkey know not easy , failrly brutal but if I may a heck of a movie .
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What in the world
OGF is a Brit so we must assume heās talking about a āgasperā 
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Lol I know I just couldnāt resist .
Do not let the fact that I can barely put together a coherent paragraph fool you , I know most of the lingo from other countries as enjoy imitating England , Australia , Scotland and Ireland but no way I can fool the real McCoyās just the locals .
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Well low and behold as that I truly did not know but will now use it .
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When I was on the orthopaedic ward (1985 - broken kneecap) ashtrays were provided at the bedside. A right old fog in there. Then came the social awareness about smoking.
In following forty years, it has gone from being able to smoke on the wards (or a common room near the wards for those who could make it there) to not being able to smoke anywhere within the hospital grounds. I still see some patients who can get outside the building smoking in the grounds though.
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Good heavens NCS Not that sort of āFagāā¦ 
Iāve never heard of the term āGasperā to describe the act of smokingā¦It certainly isnāt a word used in South Yorkshire Mr Smithā¦ 
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