Where do you live that it’s full of smokers? Smoking hasn’t been allowed indoors in NYC for years. I guess other places haven’t caught up.
I think the people smoking and coughing in public are more anti-social. It kind of bothers me that we’re generally too polite to do anything about people being a nuisance in public. I don’t want, like, vigilante murder of smokers, but if something happened to remind the guy smoking in the subway station that rules are agreements, and if they’re going to break the rules maybe someone’s going to break their face, I wouldn’t be that upset.
Maybe I was too unclear. Smoking indoors in public areas has long been prohibited.
Problem is, just because someone stopped smoking a minute ago, doesn’t mean the stuff in their lungs and clothes will not dissipate. This is easily noticeable when:
The room is closed, with closed loop ACs instead of HVACs in the name of ventilation. Over time, even the insides of the AC adsorb the vapours, making it stay.
When there is enough of people full of the stuff from cigarettes in close quarters, it becomes the same as secondary smoking even if there is good ventilation.
If they get to smoke on the staircase(which is also a closed area), right next to the door of the closed area, the poison gas is not going to follow laws of humans and stay away from the room.
ah, I see. NYC has some laws about how close you can be to the entrance while smoking, but as you say the lingering effects can still be a problem.
I don’t really have a lot of sympathy for smokers. It’s a known bad habit. Quitting sucks but that’s the debt the smoker took on. Don’t want everyone else to pay that. (Though I would support public programs to help people quit)
Where do you live that it’s full of smokers? Smoking hasn’t been allowed indoors in NYC for years. I guess other places haven’t caught up.
I think the people smoking and coughing in public are more anti-social. It kind of bothers me that we’re generally too polite to do anything about people being a nuisance in public. I don’t want, like, vigilante murder of smokers, but if something happened to remind the guy smoking in the subway station that rules are agreements, and if they’re going to break the rules maybe someone’s going to break their face, I wouldn’t be that upset.
Maybe I was too unclear. Smoking indoors in public areas has long been prohibited.
Problem is, just because someone stopped smoking a minute ago, doesn’t mean the stuff in their lungs and clothes will not dissipate. This is easily noticeable when:
If they get to smoke on the staircase(which is also a closed area), right next to the door of the closed area, the poison gas is not going to follow laws of humans and stay away from the room.
ah, I see. NYC has some laws about how close you can be to the entrance while smoking, but as you say the lingering effects can still be a problem.
I don’t really have a lot of sympathy for smokers. It’s a known bad habit. Quitting sucks but that’s the debt the smoker took on. Don’t want everyone else to pay that. (Though I would support public programs to help people quit)
I think one important part is to make it socially unacceptable.
But that’s hard to do in a place where the majority of people are happy/fine with it.