Can you be friends with a smoker mom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer to be friends with smokers, much less uptight and have fewer sudden onset allergies like all you nonsmokers that get physically overcome within five feet of a smoker.

I'm the pp you are teasing. Good. Enjoy! As my mom used to say, it takes all kinds. Smokers need friends too, and since it can't be me, they'll have you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nope. Their ashtray breath makes me nauseous.

She can brush her teeth but you can do nothing to improve yourself . I am a non-smoker but I judge people by their character and integrity

What are you talking about?

Seriously, brushing the teeth doesn't make the smell go away. I'm extremely sensitive to the smell in their breath also on the clothing and in the house so I honestly can't be around people that smoke.

[Anonymous]

And as a neighbor of a smoker I say, smoking outside is not any better. Instead of blowing the poison in the air you and your kids breathe you're blowing it right inside my bedroom. There's a reason why I moved to a smoke free place and every single time you light up that shit management gets a call and you get a letter. Stupid people who chose to harm themselves and show no respect to others are not welcome here.

[Anonymous]

I could probably be friends with someone who smoked if they were a nice, cool person and we had some common interests. Now anyone who liked The English Patient, forget it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor across the street has a daughter about 6 months older than my daughter. We are new to the neighborhood and have met the neighbor a few times and talk in the yards or whatnot but have never spent a lot of time around each other.
Well, the times we see them most often are when they are out on their front porch smoking.
I DETEST smoking. I hate being on an elevator with a smoker. I'm super sensitive to it and it incenses me. It's all I can do not to go off on people for smoking near me or my child. My mother smokes and we avoid being around her most of the time. When we visit her, we make sure it is in a public, non-smoking place like a restaurant so that she can't smoke around us. She still reeks from smoking in her car.
I just feel like smokers must not respect themselves and I have trouble respecting people who choose to poison themselves and blow poison into the air for others to breathe.
Anyway, aside from the smoking thing, I like my neighbor. I'm just not sure how to get past the smoking thing. They smoke on their porch instead of in their house, which I can at least respect that they don't smoke around their child. But still.
So, how do I deal with this?

President Obama just quite smoking, could you be friends with him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I prefer to be friends with smokers, much less uptight and have fewer sudden onset allergies like all you nonsmokers that get physically overcome within five feet of a smoker.

Agreed. 1/2 of the "I'm highly allergic to smoke" were the same drunk sorority girls in college who were smoking and drinking.

Soccer moms. Your waffling makes me tired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer to be friends with smokers, much less uptight and have fewer sudden onset allergies like all you nonsmokers that get physically overcome within five feet of a smoker.

I'm the pp you are teasing. Good. Enjoy! As my mom used to say, it takes all kinds. Smokers need friends too, and since it can't be me, they'll have you.

+1 smokers are more fun and less likely to snap. They have their habit to calm them down. Lots of fun times with my smoker friends. Non smoker myself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer to be friends with smokers, much less uptight and have fewer sudden onset allergies like all you nonsmokers that get physically overcome within five feet of a smoker.

I'm the pp you are teasing. Good. Enjoy! As my mom used to say, it takes all kinds. Smokers need friends too, and since it can't be me, they'll have you.

+1 smokers are more fun and less likely to snap. They have their habit to calm them down. Lots of fun times with my smoker friends. Non smoker myself.

Exactly. Go to any waterfront bar or other cool hangout place and the fun ones always have a few smokers laughing it up in the group.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I prefer to be friends with smokers, much less uptight and have fewer sudden onset allergies like all you nonsmokers that get physically overcome within five feet of a smoker.

I'm the pp you are teasing. Good. Enjoy! As my mom used to say, it takes all kinds. Smokers need friends too, and since it can't be me, they'll have you.

+1 smokers are more fun and less likely to snap. They have their habit to calm them down. Lots of fun times with my smoker friends. Non smoker myself.

Exactly. Go to any waterfront bar or other cool hangout place and the fun ones always have a few smokers laughing it up in the group.

Absolutely! And that gravelly voice they get? So sexy. Very Lauren Bacall. I like the way their nails turn yellow too. Forces them to keep up with the polish. Just a more finished look. I also like being seen with someone that other people know is an idiot. Makes me look smart by comparison. And my non-smoking friends all want to do those crappy and uptight things like biking or yoga or running with our dogs. It's exhausting! And who doesn't enjoy standing 15 feet outside a restaurant in 30 degree weather and rain so my smoking BFF can get her fix? Gives us a minute to check out all the hot guys who would rather kiss me than an ashtray.

[Anonymous]

People talk about yellow nails and stuff, but I've never actually seen this, and am old enough to remember lots of people smoking when I was single at bars I the nineties. There are these legends about smoking that have sprung up because it is much less prevalent, and this easier to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People talk about yellow nails and stuff, but I've never actually seen this, and am old enough to remember lots of people smoking when I was single at bars I the nineties. There are these legends about smoking that have sprung up because it is much less prevalent, and this easier to believe.

HOT! http://www.quitsmokingplace.com/personal-appearance-health-risks-from-smoking-cigarettes.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People talk about yellow nails and stuff, but I've never actually seen this, and am old enough to remember lots of people smoking when I was single at bars I the nineties. There are these legends about smoking that have sprung up because it is much less prevalent, and this easier to believe.

HOT! http://www.quitsmokingplace.com/personal-appearance-health-risks-from-smoking-cigarettes.html

Great. And I've never seen these on anyone and I know dozens of smokers and former smokers. That's why the anti smoking hyperbole doesn't work, because it is not how it works out in real life. Also, you don't die right away, and you can still run and work out. The problem is smoking is insidious because of its addictive nature. To a smoker, it's always the right time for a smoke, calms you down, picks you up, helps with grieving, etc. would treat the problem more apropriately if people didn't show pictures of crazy or homeless schizophrenics and say this will happen to you. Because uiu can smoke for twenty years and not have nails like this. Ask half my extended family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People talk about yellow nails and stuff, but I've never actually seen this, and am old enough to remember lots of people smoking when I was single at bars I the nineties. There are these legends about smoking that have sprung up because it is much less prevalent, and this easier to believe.

HOT! http://www.quitsmokingplace.com/personal-appearance-health-risks-from-smoking-cigarettes.html

Great. And I've never seen these on anyone and I know dozens of smokers and former smokers. That's why the anti smoking hyperbole doesn't work, because it is not how it works out in real life. Also, you don't die right away, and you can still run and work out. The problem is smoking is insidious because of its addictive nature. To a smoker, it's always the right time for a smoke, calms you down, picks you up, helps with grieving, etc. would treat the problem more apropriately if people didn't show pictures of crazy or homeless schizophrenics and say this will happen to you. Because uiu can smoke for twenty years and not have nails like this. Ask half my extended family.

I'd introduce you to my uncle, who looked like this before he died of lung cancer, or to my mother, who looks like this now. I'm glad half your extended family has so-far avoided this fate and hope you are saving for their funerals.

[Anonymous]

Would you rather be friends with a fat diabetic who was constantly eating? Or a cool friendly smoker? Who would be more fun?

[Anonymous]

OP, I fee like just from your initial post, I can tell so much about you, none good. Yes, you judgmental twit, I can be friends with smokers. I have never smoked, had alcohol, done a single drug, but (gasp!), I have friends who do smoke and drink and It never made me wonder whether I was making the right decision to be friends with them or not.