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MessierCode201

Smoking is NOT the same as a car driving by

I noticed a lot of people have been saying that Smoking and cars driving by have the same effect on you. Except, NO ONE seems to realise that the difference between a smoker and a moving car is that, smokers STAND AND SMOKE which allows smoke to build up in on concentrated area where as MOVING CARS create enough air disturbance to dissipate their smog .

Even if smokers are walking while smoking, they are leaving a thick trail of smoke because they don't create enough or disturbance behind them to dissipate the smog. As a non smoker, I get bad rections to all air pollutants and for me, petrol fumes and cigarette smokes are on par with each other, however, petrol fumes dissipate due to CONSISTENT air disturbance caused by the moving vehile and they produce less smoke compared to when they first start up. A smokers cigarette smoke don't dissipate as easily due to reasons because they don't produce enpugh air disturbance to dissipate it and they just generally like to stand and smoke, causing it to concentrate in one area which eventually lead to a whole bunch being blown towards a person's face in one go.

Posted Sep 18, 2017, 9:58 AM UTC

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what_do_beans_do•

I didn't even know this was a thing people talked about.

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RandomName01•

Same. What OP is saying seems reasonable but I've never heard anyone claim the opposite.

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MessierCode201OP•

It's normally on forums when the subject gets brought up, but for some reason, no one actually points out the stupidity of peoples logic of comparing a smoker to a car. Every time I go on a forum where smoking gets brought up, people tend to say "car fumes are just as worse", no shit Sherlock, but cars don't stand around for 20 minutes getting high do they?

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Okuu-Trollzy•

No smoker smokes cigarettes to get high, nor for twenty minutes at a time.

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MessierCode201OP•

No, I count it as getting high, they may not be hallucinating, but they might as well be getting high considering how they look like on cloud 9 when they take a puff. It seems like a pretty accurate description.

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[deleted]•

Underground car parks? Shit stinks in there and I definitely feel like it's harder to breathe.

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MessierCode201OP•

It's pretty common when people want to argue against being judged for spreading their cigarette smoke.

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sebdel18•

never heard of this but it makes sense, you can't even see car fumes these days

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MessierCode201OP•

Cars have become more environmentally friendly, but smoking hasn't! LOL!

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BttHrtLilTumblrina•

Well, lucky for you, the ENTIRE WORLD has decided to accommodate your needs and EVERYONE is just going to stop.

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MessierCode201OP•

You need to smoke (nicotine, not some hallucinogenic just to be clear) to clear your head. No one is saying ban smoking. It's all in your head.

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Recon_by_FireStart SELLING Motorcycles.•

I noticed a lot of people have been saying...

Where?

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MessierCode201OP•

Quora, reddit, whenever smoking gets brought up in other forums (e.g the subject matter being when a smoker wonders why smokers hate him, or when a non smoker asks why smokers smoke). I even found an archived reddit question today asking about what smokers find annoying and some were saying "yeah I point out car fumes to people and they just shut right up". I tend to browse those every once in a blue moon to see what smokers and non smokers who participate in the discussions think, but never joined the conversation, and I noticed no one bothered to point out their stupidity, hence this post.

My post isn't just about what they said, it's the general attitude that seems to be given off these forums.

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