Have to agree with you here. The fake cough I just find ridiculously stupid. I quit smoking last year but I agree with what you are saying here.

I once had a woman complain about me polluting the atmosphere whilst I was having a fag outside the Wetherspoon’s in Bangor. She then got into her Chelsea tractor (SUV to Americans) which belted out a damn sight more smoke than I could produce in a hundred lifetimes of smoking!

i accept what u do but do u really want to breath through your neck eventually? u should try that electronic cig or my article about 100 % natural ciggarets ill come back with the link 4 u. i quit 9 years now

Fake cough – real cough?

I have asthma.
I can get triggered by cigarette smoke, and if I cannot get to my rescue inhaler (or even if I can) I have a good chance of dying during an attack. I do not allow smokers in my house, because of this. Even when they are not lighting up, they smell enough to trigger an asthma attack.

In the US there health care is still not universal/public/affordable, so it is not offset by the extra tax you pay on the cigarettes. As someone with asthma I have a preexisting condition and was basically uninsurable until last year. It is still too expensive for me to get health insurance.

So if you can for a moment step in my shoes, you might understand the cough a bit better…
As long as you stay out of my airspace, I can be quite civil. I don’t really care what you do to your lungs, but do not shut mine down just yet, okay?
Enjoy your fag… over there.

http://quazen.com/shopping/100-natural-healthy-ciggaretts/ click this wow uninsurable wow thats sad.

I smoke myself. Since my hubby is on oxygen, I have to smoke outside and yes, I am out there in 25 degrees smoking away and teeth chattering. But I’ve given up everything else, drugs, alcohol, sex. I’ll be damn if I give up cigs..lol

i don’t smoke but nice post

you’re right. it is one’s choice to choose want one wants, either it is wrong or right.
great post.

Unfortunately, US healthcare just sucks. Put it this way no one gets anything unless there is money and tax payer dollars go to politicians and greedy companies.
Still the fake cough is stupid. I understand asthma but the people who are in perfect health doing that are just absurd.

Thanks very informative and interesting article

I live in New York State and we have the highest cigarette tax in the country. You can pay upwards of $10,00 per pack. We also have now imposed laws where smoking is prohibited in our parks, at the beach, around hospitals and not on the premises of most employers. We even had a lawsuit in California where a neighbor sued their neighbor for smoking in their own backyard! They claimed it was wafting over the fence and making them sick. YIKES!

You are an interesting writer