GAHHHH Secondhand Smoke - Rant

[fuzzybabybunny]

Sorry, I have to rant a little bit. I'm riding a train in China and I can't stand all the smoke. After 2 minutes it starts irritating the back of my throat. In China you get tons of secondhand smoke every day. 30% of the population smokes (an amount equal to the entire population of the United States) and does so in public places like all the restrooms, restaurants, and trains.

There's a little 6 year old girl on the train and she's coughing from the smokers smoking in the train car junction. There are no open windows anywhere so it means all the smoke just filters back into the main passenger cars because no one bothers to close the doors either. And there is never a single second, literally a single second, where there is not multiple people smoking in each junction. Smokers do not have the concept that what they're doing is harming others. And there's literally no where to go to escape the smoke. No where anywhere on the train.

Cigarettes are $1 USD a pack. You see people hocking up loogeys and spitting on the ground all the time because all the cilia are dead in their throats. And I feel mine dying right now.

The tobacco industry is state owned. It's owned by the government. The government makes money off of selling tobacco. I'll let you chew on that bit of genius.

 

[Blueoak]

I will never go to China.

 

[Rifter]

Dude look at all those videos on youtube and liveleak with people getting run over or attacked in the streets while other passerby just go one with their day.

There was even that one vid of the child getting run over by a van, and the guy even backed up then ran the kid over again and not a single person stopped to help the dying child.

China is just a shithole country where no one cares about anyone but themselves, I for one never intend to set foot in that hell hole.

 

[marvdmartian]

Sounds as though the government has found a cheap way to enact population control!

Oh, and I feel for you, fuzzy! Having smoked for ~23 years, and having quit 8 years ago, I find myself less tolerant for smoke than ever before! Especially in a closed space, where you have no way to get away from it, for some fresh air.

 

[SandEagle]

I will never go to China.

i've been to china and it was one of the most memorable trips i've ever had. the chinese weren't as friendly as the canadians but certainly not rude like the americans. lots of great scenery and everything was cheap compared to here. i would definitely go again.

 

[ichy]

We should stop letting China sell crap to WalMart until they allow American tobacco companies to sell cigarettes in China.

 

[shortylickens]

Is everybody on this forum trying to get into the Best of 2012 list or something?

 

[BUTCH1]

That's kinda rough, I smoke and I don't think it's a good idea to do so in an enclosed space with others

 

[OutHouse]

as a ex-smoker I can not stand second hand smoke or even the smell of it. when i am in public and i get a good nose full of the shit it pisses me off.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Sounds as though the government has found a cheap way to enact population control!

Oh, and I feel for you, fuzzy! Having smoked for ~23 years, and having quit 8 years ago, I find myself less tolerant for smoke than ever before! Especially in a closed space, where you have no way to get away from it, for some fresh air.

There are over 300 million people who smoke in China, which is around the population of the US.
Studies predict 1 million people to die of smoking related issues each *year.*

That's kinda rough, I smoke and I don't think it's a good idea to do so in an enclosed space with others

I've been inhaling non-stop secondhand smoke for 15 hours straight now. My throat feels like sandpaper. These people don't even have the decency to close the fucking door so their smoke doesn't all go into the passenger cars and of course none of the attendants care.

 

[IronWing]

So China is basically like America pre-1980 when smokers were given free rein to be total assholes. OP, keep this experience in mind when American smokers claim to be victimized by smoking restrictions. This is the world as it was before non-smokers reclaimed the public spaces.