Dear stupid people smoking inside the bus shelter:

[pipi_k]

105. Kind of not

the same.

Over the years I've seen the same old arguments about how second hand cigarette smoke isn't harmful, blah blah blah.

One could argue either way. It is harmful/it's not harmful.

But that's not my problem with it, actually, and why driving shouldn't be compared to having to walk through/be subjected to someone else's second hand smoke.

Whether or not second hand smoke is harmful...just like auto emissions...if I'm out riding around in traffic, I never go home stinking of gas fumes.

Whereas, walking through a cloud of cigarette smoke, or having it blown in my direction, has me smelling like a filthy ashtray. Hair. Skin. Clothing. Everywhere.

I won't argue that people have a right to smoke if they want to.

But they don't have a right to make everyone around them stink, especially if...as in the case of that bus stop shelter...there's a sign asking people not to smoke.