• @TaTTe@lemmy.world
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      972 months ago

      Because they’re selfish inconsiderate pricks who can’t fathom how disgusting they truly are.

    • @Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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      952 months ago

      I remember when they did it INSIDE buildings. And cars. Schools, hospitals… if you lived through the 80’s you just have the pervasive smell of tobacco registered as a prime core memory.

      • @RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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        162 months ago

        I use to live in Vegas as a child occasionally. We’d sometimes go to the casinos for shows and have to cross The Floor

        I can still feel it on my skin decades and decades later

    • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      402 months ago

      Because that tiny overhang is the only goddamn shade/rain shelter in this entire city block. People love designating “that spot over there” as the smoking spot but hate putting any sort of shelter from the elements.

      • @beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world
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        142 months ago

        So? Whoever brought the cigarettes should bring a jacket or umbrella too.

        That spot “over there” is so the smelly smoke can also stay “over there” and not end up in the lungs of healthy people.

    • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      192 months ago

      Probably because they’re addicted, enjoy the high, and don’t have the means or strength of character to quit.

      • @superniceperson@sh.itjust.works
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        232 months ago

        Or they have undiagnosed ADHD and haven’t associated the effect of nicotine with their seminormality mask they can only maintain with legal stimulants.

      • @bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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        432 months ago

        Any place where you don’t force your smoke upon people who have no choice about being there. It’s not that hard: Don’t make your smoking anybody else’s problem.

        Or, if this is more your style of communicating: Up your ass.

      • DarkSirrush
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        272 months ago

        In Canada, a minimum of 6’ away from the door unless you want a fine.

        • @CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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          152 months ago

          It’s only 6’ in Canada? It’s 50’ in the US.

          Of course nobody actually enforces it, so it’s effectively nothing, but still…

          • @MothmanLives@lemdro.id
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            52 months ago

            It’s 25’ in Virginia and that’s for hospitals and schools, maybe there’s a distance a business could enforce but honestly probably literally outside the doorframe is all they can do most places.

        • @Albbi@lemmy.ca
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          62 months ago

          I would love to see someone get fined for that. I wonder if anyone ever has.

        • @vivendi@programming.dev
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          202 months ago

          Exhibit number #62049 of lemmings having the most insane fucking takes to ever grace the information superdumpster

          • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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            282 months ago

            Every smoker I’ve met gets very defensive about “why can’t I breathe my toxic fumes on everyone else?? What’s the big deal?? And then they get so mad when I litter like get over yourself”

            Smoking in public is indefensible. There are smoking cessation programs.

      • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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        142 months ago

        As far from me as you would like to be when I drop a huge smelly fart.

    • @CoolMatt@lemmy.ca
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      22 months ago

      At my apartment buulding they stand right in front of the no smoking sign at the front step to the building on the building’s property where smoking is not allowed. If they stabd 5 ft over, they’re on the sidewalk where it’s okay.

      But nope, they have to stand right there.