Some Stupid Smokers
It was too wet to get my camera out, with it raining terribly badly an hour or so ago.
However, two women, were huddling under an umbrella outside the pub on the corner, trying to have a fag.
If the fags don’t give them cancer, the weather will give them pneumonia!
You can only die one way, but these two stupid women will certainly manage to do it before their time.
The Anonymous Widower 
It just shows the lengths they will go to in order to maintain their addiction. On the plus side, at least smokers can’t foul up the air for everyone else, now that they are relegated to outside.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | February 10, 2013 |
Although, the idiots at this pub block the pavement, so sometimes to get past them, I have to walk in the middle of the road. Although, when I came back from my walk, they’d all moved inside. Or been carried off to hospital!
Comment by AnonW | February 10, 2013 |
Hmmm… yes. I don’t have much sympathy for them either. It is their lifestyle choice.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | February 11, 2013
And our taxes!
Comment by AnonW | February 11, 2013 |
They go to great lengths to indulge an addiction which is ugly, unhealthy and anti-social, smoking out in the cold and rain. It is such unintelligent behaviour, as they must know the risks.
Of course, the government gains from the tax on tobacco but we all have to pay via the NHS when smokers need hospital treatment for diseases caused by their addiction.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | February 11, 2013 |
And that doesn’t include the personal cost. My son died of cancer at just 37, partly because he was a heavy smoker. I sometimes think we failed as parents because although we didn’t smoke, all our sons did.
Comment by AnonW | February 11, 2013
I feel very sad for your loss but you mustn’t blame yourself. Your sons made their own decisions and, although the regrettable premature death of one of your sons may have been partly caused by his heavy smoking, he was an adult and could have quit smoking if he had really wanted to.
My elder son smokes (again, heavily) and blames it on his father, who smoked with the rest of us around and exposed us to passive damage for years until for various reasons we left him.I tell my son that the past cannot be undone but that he can choose not to smoke now. He won’t smoke in the house but that is the only concession he makes, so it is his choice. My younger son does not smoke.
The last piece of this story is that my husband, who does not live with us, has had open heart surgery and has serious multiple organ problems. He is on constant medication and in and out of hospital and – wait for it – he still smokes! I have very little sympathy with him.
You have not failed as parents. Smoking is an individual life choice and all smokers know the risks in this day and age.
Comment by Janice Mermikli | February 11, 2013