Saturday

Which Cigarettes Your Baby Likes The Best?


Most smokers are buying their cigarettes because of their taste and price. The price factor for babies is irrelevant and the only consideration babies would have is how the smoke tastes.

I saw some parents smoking while strolling. It looks horrible! I wish to ask them this one question: Which Cigarettes Your Baby Likes The Best? to awaken their conscience and help them realize that they are raising a little smoker with his own taste for cigarettes.

Now they have a baby, but in five years this baby will step into the school system and come out of any control. This little organism already has a smoking habit and knows which cigarettes are good.

Second-hand smoker is a smoker. An addicted first grader will find his cigarette because he needs it and a week law of not selling cigarettes to minors will not stop him. What will stop him? His parents right now should stop smoking in his presence that he would completely forget the taste of smoke.

I am so happy that in my local shopping mall the smoking room is next to the play room and smoking parents can leave their children for five minutes to have their cigarette and come back. Hope this will become a universal pattern.

Thursday

Protection For Smokers’ Children


When I see someone with a stroller and a cigarette my heat cries to help those poor children doomed to suffer from regular second-hand smoking with their parents.

Some smokers argue that smoking is not a bad thing because it is not forbidden by law. Then I am asking why it is written on cigarettes that smoking is harmful and killing? Why it is forbidden to sell cigarettes to minors? Why they do not teach that wonderful skill to their children?

There are parents who care only of themselves. They actually do make their babies regular second-hand smokers. A new smoking law should go against this. I wish even privately raise money to print a free T-shirt saying: Yes, I do smoke, BUT not my children!

Wednesday

Window Smoking


It appears polite and caring when someone smokes into his window. He does not want his apartment smell too much and his relatives suffer too much. Yes, BUT! There are 3 families living on the ground floor right below me and all of them have that one habit to step out to smoke or smoke into their window. Guess where that smoke goes from there…

In the climate I live in you have to have your windows open most of the time if not all the time. If in the summer all of the windows are open, the place is quite livable. Sometimes you can feel a nice breeze from one window to another, but not every time it is pleasant and you already know why! Smoke comes without any prior warning…

Why do I need to stop everything I am doing and go around the house finding the smoking window? Why while a smoker enjoys fresh outside air do I need to sit in a smoked room or with windows closed in the heat (or both if I did not react immediately)? Why do I need to wait till that smoker/those smokers are done to reopen my windows? Why my small children need to be poisoned due to their inability to close the window in the children’s room?

There should be a law to smoke with windows closed and opening the windows only after neutralization of the inner smoke with its poison.

Sunday

Smoking Consensus


“i totally agree even tho iam a smokermyself”

This is a reply from one of my Twitter followers. This is a reply that we all need to voice to change the current wild situation with smoking and second-hand smoking. We just have no time to dream about all people stopping their smoking habit. All sober people should rise up to save innocent lives right now, especially lives of our children.

I want to thank all of my followers who retweeted my little thoughts and feelings in hope other ones can hear that. My hope they themselves will also will voice their feelings on the page I have prepared for this.

Saturday

A Smoking Human Or A Dragon?


How to understand who is a dragon? Very simple: dragons exhale smoke and fire all the time. Dragons have such a smoking nature and it is useless to ask a dragon not to smoke in a certain place.

What helps to dragons not to smoke is not a negotiation, but hunting. Whenever a new law comes into action, some are not happy with it and they are not going to abide according to it unless there is force behind this law. Some smokers are willing not to smoke only in gas stations. What to do?

There are two ways to make it work for dragons. Police can start paying close attention to smoking. On the other hand public efforts can be even more effective. For example, smoking can be considered as a wild fire and fire extinguishers can be used by anyone to stop it.

Dragons should realize that humans are able to stand for themselves. We do not have to be cavemen. Instead they will have to go to their kennels!

Friday

Are You A Caveman? Stop It!


Let me tell you something about the UK smoking law. It forbids smoking indoors. To open a smoking room in an airport there is just illegal. All smoking should be done outside.

What does it mean for non-smokers? Anyone who does not want to be a second-hand smoker should sit in his cave most of his life. Every time he wants to eat he holds his breath, steps outside to hunt something down, and quickly drags it back into his cave.

This situation is not fair at all. The smoking law in the UK needs to be reversed to forbid smoking outside and to let building smoking booths and smoking rooms with the rest of indoor territory still free from smoking.

No one has to put up with second-hand smoking. If you are British, go bother your parliament to change the law ASAP.

Thursday

Smoking Room As A Sign Of Mutual Respect


Smokers and non-smokers are able to live together in peace if the law will take care of each party’s interest with equal respect. Non-smokers will be happy to forget about tobacco smoke and smokers will be happy to be able to smoke at any time. Smoking rooms are a practical solution already implemented in a limited way today.

If we want to forbid public smoking, smokers will not be happy unless they are provided with a nice alternative way to smoke apart from non-smokers. There should be many smoking rooms everywhere. Ideally smokers should be able to feel no lack while spending their entire life in smoking rooms.

Wednesday

Smoking With A Personal Filter


For some smokers it can be more pleasant to smoke by themselves without going to a smoking booth. It can be a personality issue or trying to get only the smoke of their favorite taste. In those cases smoker should take care of his smoke the same way dog owners should take care of their dog’s poo.

How can a personal filter look like? Like a gas mask. Usual gas mask is taking air from outside and filters it out to make it good for breathing, but this gas mask should do the opposite also – filter the air coming out not to let the smoke poisons out.

In fact, there are some gas masks working not by the principle of filtering, but by the principle of isolating and restoring the air. I saw it in the navy. You can also see it with firefighters. This kind of gas mask is called rebreather. My idea is to add a smoke cartridge for starting to smoke and degasation cartridge for cleaning the air inside before taking it off.

Tuesday

Smoking Air Pollution – Filter The Smoke


Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment, into the atmosphere. Everyone is aware of factories pumping smoke into the air, but have anyone considered the personal cigarette smoke we ourselves responsible for?

Numerous studies were conducted about diseases caused by smoking. To make smoking “healthier” cigarettes are made with a filter. What if we go on with this filter idea and make a cigarette with such a filter that does not let the smoke out to the atmosphere? If it is not possible to make such filters for individual cigarettes, we can surely equip smoking booths with the best possible solution.

When we check statistics of getting sick with lung cancer and other similar things we see that non-smokers have a lower percentage than regular smokers. I wonder it by stopping smoking air pollution we can lower statistics close to zero. What do you think?

Monday

Smoking While Riding A Bike


Not often you can see one riding a bike with a cigarette in his mouth. Yesterday I spotted such one, which brings me back to my former idea of deep smoking. Those who want to smoke their tobacco really hard should try physical exercises while smoking.

What if there will be some sport equipment in a smoking booth? Drop a coin into a bike machine and your smoking is taken to a higher level!

Sunday

Smoking Harassment


In one of recent responses on Twitter my new follower said that he does not want to have any smoking laws because it will lead to harassment. Instead he suggested to me to get into another hot subject called emission. I hope to make him happy by considering lowering emission of nicotine and other poisons in tobacco smoke.

What is the harassment he is worrying about? He does not like it when I ask him not to smoke next to my baby. Is that all? Or else I can be more aggressive asking if he is sure he wants to try smoking next to my baby. This implies a possible action on my part. At this point I wish to ask what action is appropriate when somebody is sending a harmful substance right into your lungs and the poison is absorbed to reach your brain in ten seconds? Is that harassment, nuisance, pestering, annoyance, stalking, irritation, aggravation, or persecution?

Smokers want harassment to be only one way. The time has come to stop it. The times of slavery are over. The times of open-air nuclear explosions are over. The time of wild smoking harassment is coming to the end. We are all responsible for the laws we have in our countries. Rise up today!

Friday

Smoking Upside Down


Smoking is stuffing one’s lungs with smoke. Why there is a habit to smoke outdoors where most of the smoke cannot be reused? There should be some smoking booths made 5 to 10 minutes walk from each other for smokers to have fun whenever they wish.

I just looked at some samples of such little houses for sale. They can render a good service both for active smokers and volunteer second-hand smokers alike. Poor smokers will surely drop in to get smoked for free. This is truly a smoking revolution, smoking upside down.

Thursday

Tolerance to Smoking


One of my followers mentioned that he also was a smoker and knows that many of them want to quit. And at that time this word “tolerance” came out. Here I wish to clarify about tolerance to smoking and to smokers.

There are testimonies of conversion of heavy smokers into total non-smokers in a matter of days. We should always have hope for the best. It can be a result of a chemical treatment or of a religious turn in one’s life. Those routes are the best to take, because it provides the best feeling. Until it happens, one should have the freedom to smoke without harming others.

At the same time there needs to be a zero tolerance to smoke outside of the designated smoking places. The law should protect us from any undesired smoke and the law must have teeth. There should be an effective mechanism of stopping ruthless smokers from forcing others into second-hand smoke. In such cases tolerance is not a good helper.

Tuesday

To Ban or Not To Ban Smoking?


To ban smoking now is not a realistic goal. I will agree to ban smoking only after every smoker will honestly agree from his heart to such a ban on smoking.

This is true that smoking is a barbarian atavism that harms other people, but quitting smoking should be a voluntary act for each individual. Before that happens we can and should make smoking less harmful by introducing a new smoking culture.

Do I have an analogy to a new smoking culture? WC is known almost to everyone on the Earth. During the 1800s, people realized that poor sanitary conditions caused diseases. Having toilets and sewer systems that could control human waste became a priority to lawmakers, medical experts, inventors, and the general public.

In other words, do what you want to do, but the way you do it can be better than it is now. Today is the day for the public to rise up and make smoking laws and infrastructure a priority to save the planet from second-hand smoking.

Monday

Why Smoking?


In the last couple of days I was asked number of times why am I getting into smoking when there are so many other issues around? Here is my answer. Actually, I will give you some variants of my answer.

Are you bothered with my writing about smoking? This is good for you and for society in general, because this is a sign that my cry does not fall on deaf ears. My writing is for creating awareness of a big problem, which is generally neglected.

Is it a problem for you that you can only read here about smoking? For me this is not a problem at all. I have selected this particular item to consider in a way of separation from all the other issues. In fact, there are other things besides smoking that bother me, but there are other platforms I use whenever I wish to say something about them.

Why am I not getting into drinking, ozone, unhealthy foods …? Sorry, but I am a living person, who has strong feelings and words for something that should be dealt with, but overlooked by those in power. I am happy to invest my spare time into this. And I can only do so much.

Saturday

Decontamination or Quarantine? - What Is Better for Smokers?


If you ever use public transportation, you have an idea what smokers do before entering the buss, the train, etc. They smoke their last and throw their cigarette down. They have to do that because of the law of no smoking in the public transportation. In fact, this law does not save us altogether. When smokers come in, they exhale the last portion of smoke and fill the whole buss with its “fragrance”.

That law of no smoking in public places should institute a process of decontamination or a period of quarantine to make smokers relatively safe for society.

Friday

Smoking In Public Places - Redefine Public Places


Our modern smoking law speaks about forbidding to smoke in public places, but a public place needs to be well defined in order for this law to work right. Anywhere, but a private property place should be considered as a public place. In other words, a public place should be defined as any place that does not require one to have consent of the owner to enter in.

For example, I want to enter your home. I need you to let me in. You as the owner want to smoke at home and I will have to agree to it if I wish to stay there. Or you may run a smoking club or a cafe for smokers. You can set in your rules how I should behave, and I most likely will not enter in if I have to smoke there or have a second-hand smoke.

Another example is a private institution for general public like a hospital, in which you allocate smoking spots separated from general public areas. If this is not done, the private institution should be called as a hospital for smokers or a smoking hospital.

Other than those private homes and private smoking institutions, all the rest of places are public and should be free from smoking to be easily accessible to non-smokers. Smoking in a park or on the street should be forbidden, because non-smokers also want to sit in that park or walk on that street. Smoking by the door while waiting for your children is not right, because others are there also waiting for their children.

Thursday

Smokers Are Spamers And Rapers


In modern society unwanted mail is unacceptable and unwanted smoke should not be tolerated either. Why is it that staffing my mailbox with commercial proposals (which may benefit me) is a crime, but smoking into my windows (that surely harms me) is a sign of freedom?

Raping strangers on the street was all right in Sodom. Today it is a crime. Wild West was more or less transformed into a nice society. Nevertheless, there are still laws to be changed. Wild outside smoking is a vivid example to this. Why someone out there has such a freedom to rape my lungs?

Sunday

Smoking Bubbles


Look at what I just found on the subject of secondhand smoking. What do you think about secondhand smoking being worse? I have never known how many poisons I am getting while strolling outside! 200 poisons at once are way too much for a little fellow like me. When I see some strolling-smoking with their babies, I want to cry.

I really think that we need a smoking revolution starting with small potatoes like me and going up to politicians, and then to courts. If you feel the same, join me on Twitter and Facebook now.