Depending on the flight I take, I'll either have a stopover in Amsterdam or Dubai. At least I'll be able to have a smoke before I get back on the plane. Non smokers do not understand the sheer hell that air travel is for smokers.
Its your choice to become legally addicted to fags. That's your problem.
Additionally, its still hell for (non-smokers) people to be cooped up with strangers for however long the flight is, regardless of whether they're gasping for a fag/drink/see long lost loves/holiday.
Yes. It is my choice. I am fully aware of that. But I didn't ask for a lecture from you.
I agree that smoking should be banned on airplanes. I am also of the opinion that if most airports had smoking rooms, there would be far fewer idiots trying to sneak a smoke on the plane.
This is a contradiction above. You cannot ban smoking in an airport and still smoke in designated areas. Banning something means banning something it is is not available to do at all on that area.
So what you mean is, you agree with airports banning smoking anywhere on their property, just not when it inconvenience you on your stopover.
It kinda sounds pretty selfish really.
However, of course, you're legally addicted to it so it's alright to actually claim that you should have some rights to it? Even though it actually harms other people when they breathe in your second hand smoke, EVEN when you've breathed the other way?
But it can get tiring being lectured about smoking.
I'm not proud of the fact that I smoke and I go out of the way to avoid incoveniencing others. I always abide by the house rules wherever I am. However, I don't like to be lectured on the subject.
That's human nature not to like being lectured on the subject that you know is wrong to people who do not choose to clog their lungs up with smoke. My issue is that apparently you understand why people complain to you directly, yet you do nothing about it to remedy the problem at all.
You obviously are an intelligent person and know why people complain to you directly (as obviously you've had people say this to your face and so on) but still carry it on.
My issue is that you decided, for whatever reason, to tke my statement of: "this is your problem, it is your choice" out of context and see it as a slight to yourself.
It isn't, at all.
It is merely highlighting that from YOUR choice to become legally addicted to smoking, you now have to abide by that choice. As it is your own free choice to continue smoking (as you could literally stop at any time, couldn't you, when you first started) then you shouldn't complain about having to wait for your next opportunity to have a cigarette.
You were. We went from me stating my satisfaction at the airport having a designated smoking area to you giving me a lecture about how smoking was my choice.
I'm 24 and I'm fully aware of that fact. The point is, you could have said nothing, but you couldn't resist and just had to tell me that me smoking is "my problem".
Now you say you're okay with people smoking in their home/designated areas. Which is all I ever said in the first place. Stop backtracking. I never once expressed any wish to smoke in any area where I'm not supposed to.
Technically, from the above, it was not actually clear what you were talking about. All I got from the original statement that you made, which was
Depending on the flight I take, I'll either have a stopover in Amsterdam or Dubai. At least I'll be able to have a smoke before I get back on the plane. Non smokers do not understand the sheer hell that air travel is for smokers.
was that non-smokers doesn't understand the "sheer hell" that smokers have while in a plane. This is the key sentence in that statement. But the thing is, being a smoker or a non-smoker doesn't actually make being in a plane worse or better. Everyone is still in the same situation, lumped together with weird/strange/odd/strangers people that they are never going to meet again forever. So, the experience is still the same.
Apart, of course, from the select few who chooses to make their life even worse for that period of time by not being able to smoke.
There's nicotine patches out there that you can take. There's far more drugs/stuff/placebos you can take if you want to reduce the cravings during the long haul flights nowadays,
My gear grinder for the moment is that I am obviously taking things over the top.
At least it's not Japanese, and you won't look extremely poor. Go for something English! Or German.
