Old Glory affords everybody the liberty to precise their opinion, and I’ve mine about smoking and people who smoke, which is as follows:

SMOKER: A dragon-like determine, reminiscent of “puff” the magic dragon, which is represented as having a reptilian body and breaths and emits smoke and hearth!

STUPID: marked by a scarcity of intelligence.

FOOL: one who’s poor in judgment or understanding.

DUMB: conspicuously unintelligent.

DRAGON: one thing very formidable or harmful.

I HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR SMOKING AND SMOKERS!

Each time I see a smoker, it jogs my memory of a dragon, with smoke bellowing out of the mouth, nostril, ears, and doubtless locations the place the solar do not shine! Each time my ex-wife and I might invite a couple of “dragons” (who smoked), over for dinner, the place appeared prefer it was on hearth, with smoke popping out of all of the home windows! I used to be at all times frightened that the smoke alarms would go off!

With the cloud of smoke in the home, visibility was about 6 inches (or much less), and I frightened that somebody was going to stumble over the espresso desk or crash right into a garbage can head first and injure themselves! Whereas I used to be within the Air Drive, I helped put out a home that was on hearth one night time, and I received a sense for the way highly effective the hose is that fireman use! We went into that home that night time, and destroyed all the things with the pressure of the water alone! So, when a hand-full of “dragons,” come over, and with all of the smoke in the home, I at all times frightened {that a} neighbor would possibly name the hearth division, and with these highly effective hoses, the fireman would destroy the home!

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I do not need people who smoke round me! With that perspective, and the variety of people who smoke round, that just about leaves me out within the woods on my own, would not it? I do know all about smoking, as I smoked for 5 years, and give up again in 1970, which was top-of-the-line issues I’ve ever completed and for my family!

However, smoking is just not solely harmful in a well being sense, however it’s harmful to a relationship as nicely. I met my ex-wife within the 1970’s, when smoking was modern and stylish, and she or he smoked all the 19 years we have been collectively. However at the moment, it did not matter to me that a lot that she smoked, so smoking wasn’t a difficulty. However, as time went on, she began smoking an increasing number of, and it began having an impact on our relationship. I believe the anti-smoking motion began within the early 1990’s, and that is in regards to the time when our relationship began to go downhill, and a part of the explanation was due to her smoking!

For 19 years I tolerated smoking, and I attempted to assist Wendy give up smoking, and all of it fell on deaf ears! She was at all times afraid to realize weight if she give up, however I informed her if she gained weight, I might assist her with that, too! (in a single ear and out the opposite). As time went on, she at all times appeared to have a cigarette in her mouth! After about 17 or 18 years of this, and I began to grow to be irritated, and smoking rose to the highest of our precedence checklist.

Once I first met her, she was a light smoker, smoking a cigarette right here and a cigarette there. She was an off-the-cuff smoker, so I did not elevate the crimson flag on the time, and many others. However because the years glided by, her smoking received worse and worse, and I naturally frightened about her. Very first thing within the morning…a cigarette! Last item at bedtime…a cigarette! And, if she awoke in the midst of the night time…one other cigarette! Each morning she awoke coughing and choking! I used to be getting very upset over this ashtray B07SDBPJCB!

The cigarette turned her fixed companion! I might get so mad, once I went into the kitchen and, as she was getting ready a meal…there was that rattling cigarette hanging out of her mouth! A number of occasions I went over to her, and grabbed that silly cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and put it within the kitchen sink and drowned it!

Smoking was affecting our relationship, and we have been arguing and combating an increasing number of, and never talking to one another an increasing number of, as time went on. Our two boys, have been 10 and 12 on the time, and I do know that smoking was affecting their well-being as nicely. She had the perspective that she was going to get her little “repair” and/or “pleasure” it doesn’t matter what! She was egocentric! She did not need to see the opposite viewpoint. She would not even go outdoors and smoke!

And, I had the perspective that we have been having a giant downside right here, and we have been going to need to discover a resolution for it, or we’d not be collectively for much longer! If I introduced up the smoking difficulty, she would simply stroll away!

When two individuals argue and combat a number of the time, the connection begins to bitter and doubtless will die. It lastly got here to the purpose, after we have been speaking to one another little or no! Through the years, she most likely puzzled why I kissed her little or no…who desires to kiss an ashtray? To make an extended story short, we parted our methods in 1995, and smoking and all of the combating that went with it, was one of many causes for going our separate methods!

At present, (2006), I am single (by selection), and if one other lady crosses my path someday sooner or later, she’s going to NOT be a smoker! If she is…she will be able to simply preserve proper on going! Analysis has proven that second-hand smokes kills as does smoking itself! So, for nineteen years, I’ve no idea what the second-hand smoke has completed to me! Nineteen years with a smoker round me is sufficient!