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On the subject of smoking in odd places, how come so many smokers light up in underground car parks? Surely this has to be dangerous? Often there are even ash trays mounted by the lifts - so it's obviously expected...

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No, it's not dangerous.

Tom

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How come it's forbidden in every country I've visit except Switzerland?

I have also seen Swiss people filling their cars with petrol with a cigarette in their mouth. Is this not dangerous either??

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This gives me a great idea, we should carry a freshner bottle and when someone comes next to us to smoke, we push some freshner in the air around us! That will make a point! :D

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..yes, I deserve spankies. :rolleyes:

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:rolleyes: Yani! In most country I know you have a non-smoking sign at petrol station saying to not smoke close to the pump! Not here?

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Yes you do. But I think your time and money would be better invested in obtaining a sense of humour. ":rolleyes:"

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..I've got two humors already, ain't that enuff? :confused:

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What if you don't have a car?

I like the idea of the designated smoking boxes, it seems like the most sensible option to me. It means smokers still get to stand around smoking and other people can avoid that zone and don't have to breathe in the smoke. The smell of smoke doesn't bother me that much, but I do often get it blown in my face here too (either that or someone walking directly in front of me is smoking and it trails behind right into my face), and that's a little bit gross.

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Well, maybe you just need practice. Here's lesson number one for free. There is nothing amusing about KFC.

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:eek: How dare you!! :mad:

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Nah, car is a main mean of transport. Trains used predominantly for luxury by people who want to avoid traffic and all smokers who wait and puff into others faces at the platforms... I try to avoid them. :D

... or peppergun. That should be able to send the message across well.

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Because laws are often made by people with no knowledge of the subject.

No.

A fuel/air mixture is actually very difficult to ignite, and impossible if not close to stoichiometric.

Tom

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Not a good idea. Most air fresheners make me puke.

Tom

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Just sayin'.

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..fresh air tends to be kyptonite to smokers...just sayin'. :p

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I'm not sure that anyone has ever died from the occasional whiff of second hand smoke on a train platform either. ;)

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That's the reason I hate going on trains and drive instead. When I was pregnant I got smoke blown into my face every time I entered a train platform. Now with a baby I even got some ignorant old hack blowing smoke into the pram where my baby was sleeping. So I stood up and pushed the pram away to make a point - do you think she felt bad about it? I don't think so.

Maybe someone needs to educate swiss people that smoking is actually bad for you and it's certainly not cool anymore. Such an allegedly developed civilization and sometimes (too often I think) so incredibly backwards that it makes me shiver and move back into the jungle!

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...just too bad, that at any given point there must be at least 15 smokers lighting it up on any given platform.

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Already feel better getting this off my chest, I certainly have a thing against smoking and I'm even a cured smoker, only smoked as a teen 'to keep up with the peers'

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But you know that having two humors is forbidden in Switzerland. You are suspicious if you have only one. But there are specialized clinics where you can have your humors removed. Ask the next SVP Regional Office for further details.

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..that must be why people were staring at me huh?! :msnsarcastic: :D

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"Air-fresheners" have nothing at all to do with fresh air.

Tom

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...are you completely sure?

Not Tom

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Yes. They are just chemicals in a can.

Every time someone uses one, I have to open all the windows to get rid of the stench.

Tom

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You're right. I took one with me to Beijing last year and hung up the little "pine fresh" christmas tree on a flag pole in Tiananmen Square. Within hours, all the pollution had gone and you could see the beautiful blue sky.

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Jus to share something...

Week ago when I went to Vitis sport's centre for regular night session of tennis with my wife (I just felt like relax after long day at work and get a healthy dose of exercise so that I can sleep like a baby). There usually aren't too many people there so it is more affordable and less crowds. I went to the bathroom upstairs (where James Blunt's music is played on regularly :confused:) to fill up the bottle with some water and I almost puked. The entire place size of two by three was stinking with cigarette smoke, seriously so bad that you smelled it like someone must have lighted up few minutes ago and just left. Not only my lungs were suffering this instntenous excruciating pain of sudden poisnous breath-in, but fresh shirt and shorts out from the laundry with aroma of fabric softener/freshener (my wife's speciality) all were ruined by this stench in seconds and I felt like vomiting.
It was so bad and distinct that when I got on the court my wife asked me "since when you started smoking". Common people you come to do the sports and contradict yourselves!

There is small smokers area with ashtray outside there by the entrance as well and it is always full of cigarettes butts like candles on cake saying 100 years old :confused:. I would rather have these "sport's people" use it instead of contaminating the public toilet.

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..but I would like to make a distinction. I've been a strong anti-smoking advocate on this thread...but it's the ciagerettes that really bother me...cigars and pipes don't have that sharply pungent, penetrating stinge that cigarettes have.

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I don't get this with people into sports. They are fit, in shape, eat healthy and everything, and you see them smoking! :confused: It is as weird as seeing a pregnant woman smoking, a mother holding her baby with a cig in her mouth, a old man with an oxygen pump support in front on the hospital's door smoking.... Or my pneumologist who smokes!

:confused:

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Honestly? Did you ever sit next to a dude smoking a cigar??

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Certainly..and it doesn't bother me as much as cigarettes.

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There is nothing logical about addiction.

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It's a dreadful experience and not one I'm in any rush to repeat.

BTW: You smoke ciggies right!? If you go on Sunday's KFC Quest, will gas masks be needed!? ... jus' kiddin :D

Can't stand either and bet you like spliff fumes too!? :rasta: :p

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Sure I do...but only when they're followed by a "puff-puff-pass" ritual. Jokes aside, nah don't like those type of fumes either.

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Dude, that's "irie" :D

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It is in human nature to always reach for some kind of forbidden fruit . In analogy, the street scumbags will traffic the drugs just for money because they are desparate to make ends meet, but affluent members of society upon exploring all the pecularities of their "mundane" lifestyle they want to reach beyond accepted standards, relieve stress or resort to escape in form of a trip. In the same fashion, perfectly healthy individual would want to screw himself with some kind of the poison just for heck of it and will only realize it later when suffers consequences. It is like this hypocratic pneumologist who preaches the sterile lungs but does the opposite.

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Good Afternoon Ab doing well are we? Nice to know you're back in the scheme of things. :msngrin:

Been some time since we spoke about this subject but I'm sure if you use the search function you will find..probably x3 years ago or so.

"Putting out a cigarette in a bowl of petrol"

Yup that's what they taught my father on a welding course, where you learn to control these sort of things. Also people studying chemistry at university tend to take a interest in these subjects. It's about temperatures, energy and vapour, so if it's -5c outside highly unlikely the petrol station would go up.

Secondly it's actually extremely difficult to light petrol with a lit cigarette, so all the films you see are additionally wrong.

If you don't believe me try for yourself or I'll do it for you. (With a small amount of petrol I might add firstly. It's damn near impossible)

It's health and safety BS on behalf of the car park owners and unless someone dumps an entire petrol tank into a confined space it's very highly unlikely it will cause a explosion. Even then you could probably drop a couple of road cones and that would be sufficent to protect small animals and smokers :D

Lots of love as always Cat x

(p.s. some person has already tried it but I suppose someone has too)

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I had the misfortune of having a very atracttive young lady sit next to me today on the metro, not normaly a problem other than the fact she stank of cigarettes:msnsick::msnsick:

Its the the way they have to try and get as many drags on the cigarette before they get in the train that so sick, like drug addicts. Smokers stink fact, your breath smells and your clothes....

Also have noticed smokers are starting to flout the law, slowy but surely smoking in small bars,train and metro stations.

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Nice image, heres a few of mine.
Last one no guesses where that came from.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_iKcZ3qcCmy...king_nazis.jpg

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http://www.infowars.com/images2/ps/250407poster2.jpg

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Confirming what we all knew....

Swiss are mutants


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0116144452.htm