cigarette smoke

[resonance]

Half an hour before the end of class the guy next to me left and came back reeking of cigarette smoke. All the seats were full and it took me long enough to convince myself to leave that I was having difficulty breathing and had definitely started getting a migraine.

God damn it. I have so much trouble just leaving immediately, because I don't want to do unexplained and apparently unprovoked rude things like suddenly getting up and leaving.

At least cigarette smoke has started triggering asthma for me. I have the impression that people are more willing to accept that as a real smoke-triggered issue than they are allergies (nausea, burning sinuses, and feeling unconnected to what's going on) or migraines.

[celestia]

Half an hour before the end of class the guy next to me left and came back reeking of cigarette smoke. ...and had definitely started getting a migraine.

You have company in me woman. I go to AA meetings and there is only one meeting left in the city I live in that allows smoking, it is gross and disgusting to go in that building. I hang out with recovering addicts and a lot of them still smoke, including my best friend. I stayed over at her house last weekend and that will be the last time until she stops smoking. I used to smoke, sinner turned saint.

I am very migrainous (sp?) it takes nothing at all to trip my migraine trigger, I can soooooo relate and it pisses me off too.

My husband also died of smoking-related lung cancer at age 48 6 years ago, so I feel like it's okay to be a crusader or bitch about it to my friends and family.

Smoking KILLS. Slowly and painfully. And it is an intrusion of the personal space of the people who don't smoke.

Testifyin'

S9