I suffer from a strong pollen #allergy. For a month now, my nose and throat are constantly irritated. This in turn means that I'm particularly sensitive to #cigarette smoke. My throat gets itchy if someone is #smoking three metres ahead.
I have three conclusions.
Firstly, if cigarettes affect my throat over such a distance, I wonder how poisonous their fumes are to us, all the time that we don't even smell their odor.
Secondly, I don't envy people with asthma and other diseases worse than mine. I have to suffer this for up to two months a year.
Thirdly, it is absolutely necessary to *ban smoking in public*. It's absurd that I can't use a sidewalk because some asshole needs to cultivate their addiction (and I can already imagine the policemen listening to my explanation why I'm not using the sidewalk).
Furthermore, it's even more absurd to place "smoking zones" so close to the main passage that you can't avoid the poisonous fumes and have to hold your breath to pass through. Like in this parody of a train station building in Poznań.
@mgorny Here in Queensland, it's illegal to smoke less than 5 meters from the entrance of any non-residential building.
https://cancerqld.org.au/cancer-prevention/tobacco-smoking/anti-tobacco-legislation/
But yeah… smoke of all kinds is a menace. A few years ago we had a bad bushfire season, and I recall spending Christmas/New Year in bed because I was coughing my lungs up.
Masks were sold out everywhere. I now have a full-face N95 (thank-you COVID-19), but yeah, bushfires or even controlled burns, are murder.
Cigarette smoke is a completely avoidable menace, and not nearly enough consideration is given to passive smoking.
Don't get me started on vaping.
@mgorny Here in Queensland, it's illegal to smoke less than 5 meters from the entrance of any non-residential building.
https://cancerqld.org.au/cancer-prevention/tobacco-smoking/anti-tobacco-legislation/
But yeah… smoke of all kinds is a menace. A few years ago we had a bad bushfire season, and I recall spending Christmas/New Year in bed because I was coughing my lungs up.