It's hard to say goodbye

I remember when they did it INSIDE buildings. And cars. Schools, hospitals... if you lived through the 80's you just have the pervasive smell of tobacco registered as a prime core memory.

I use to live in Vegas as a child occasionally. We'd sometimes go to the casinos for shows and have to cross The Floor
I can still feel it on my skin decades and decades later
I remember looking for the grocery carts with built in ashtray.

Because they're selfish inconsiderate pricks who can't fathom how disgusting they truly are.

Because that tiny overhang is the only goddamn shade/rain shelter in this entire city block. People love designating "that spot over there" as the smoking spot but hate putting any sort of shelter from the elements.

Go get wet fucker, I give no fucks, you chose to smoke not me.
- I also give no fucks, so here we are.
  
  "I don't care about your comfort (and your health a little, but its your choice)"
  "Well I don't care about your health(or your comfort, but its my choice), so here we are."
  
  I swear to god I am going to carry a fucking bucket of water from now on
So? Whoever brought the cigarettes should bring a jacket or umbrella too.
That spot "over there" is so the smelly smoke can also stay "over there" and not end up in the lungs of healthy people.

It felt like that for me in a lot of Europe, but not America.

At my apartment buulding they stand right in front of the no smoking sign at the front step to the building on the building's property where smoking is not allowed. If they stabd 5 ft over, they're on the sidewalk where it's okay.

But nope, they have to stand right there.

Probably because they're addicted, enjoy the high, and don't have the means or strength of character to quit.

Or they have undiagnosed ADHD and haven't associated the effect of nicotine with their seminormality mask they can only maintain with legal stimulants.

Noooooo you can't use smoking you must doomscroll social media and consoom products!!!! You can't be getting dopamine from chemicals you MUST CONSOOOM PRODUCT!!!!!

Bro, Imma be honest, as a nicotine addict, I wouldnt encourage anyone get on it. You start seeing nicotine as a stimulant that you "need" to get through difficult tasks, or tasks that need focus, or shit, maybe you even need to game a bit better because you're sleep deprived(caused by the nicotine) and having an extra stimulant alongside some caffeine might help. You start using it to get through stuff, and then because of withdrawals, that """""justifies""""" your use of it to get through stuff even more. Not to mention nicotine's bad effects on your gum health and cardiovascular health.
By the way, for anyone reading this, fuck vaping. Harder to quit than smoking because a lot of people get nicotine salt disposables, or their mental process when in withdrawal/craving phase is "oh it's just vapor, not smoke which is carcinogenic, one more hit couldn't hurt". Which is true, smoke, tar, combustion, etc is the main cancer causing part of nicotine, but thinking of it like that doesn't help you quit.
Don't smoke, don't vape. Longest I've lasted is a month so far, and that's because I threw my little nic salt pen and carts away.
Edit Addendum: Btw, this is typed by a mofo who is still vaping, I relapsed. I fell into that same line of logic above. "I need it to get through work" type shit
- I have the exact opposite experience with vaping, but I realize anecdotal evidence is not admissible. I had been smoking roll-your-owns to save money and my use skyrocketed. Switched to a low % nicotine vape and just hit that for the next few years. When my daughter was born and I realized I wouldn't be able to vape in the house anymore, I may as well have gone back to smoking, so I just stopped. Since I had been smoking that low % stuff, I wound up having no withdrawals at all and pretty much walked away unscathed. It can be a great tool for quitting if used responsibly.
  
  Tanks are usually better. Nic-salt is what got my dumbass twisted lol.
- I bring words of encouragement: Fuck yeah. Any hit you don't take is a win, so keep at it!
  I struggle with alcohol and I'm not gonna drink today again. Maybe skip a hit for a stranger on the internet, and the world'll keep a couple lights a little longer.

Where the fuck do I light one up then, your holy highness?

Any place where you don’t force your smoke upon people who have no choice about being there. It’s not that hard: Don’t make your smoking anybody else’s problem.
Or, if this is more your style of communicating: Up your ass.
In Canada, a minimum of 6' away from the door unless you want a fine.
- It's only 6' in Canada? It's 50' in the US.
  Of course nobody actually enforces it, so it's effectively nothing, but still...
  
  It's 25' in Virginia and that's for hospitals and schools, maybe there's a distance a business could enforce but honestly probably literally outside the doorframe is all they can do most places.
- I would love to see someone get fined for that. I wonder if anyone ever has.
As far from me as you would like to be when I drop a huge smelly fart.
In the trash where you belong
- Exhibit number #62049 of lemmings having the most insane fucking takes to ever grace the information superdumpster
  
  Every smoker I've met gets very defensive about "why can't I breathe my toxic fumes on everyone else?? What's the big deal?? And then they get so mad when I litter like get over yourself"
  Smoking in public is indefensible. There are smoking cessation programs.
  
  Agreed. Vaping on the other hand is fine and with how many people vape now thankfully not something anyone has any remaining institutional power to enforce a ban on, so glad I can puff on the train in peace now
  
  I don't think the fumes from vaping are especially safe or welcome, either. At least there's no littering, though
  
  It's called public space for a reason. Your logic is completely inverted. I get a right to the air as much as you, don't like it --> fuck off somewhere else, better yet don't leave the house
  
  I think you're confused - seems like you think that a public place is your private space. Public space is a place where people need to consider OTHER people. You just proved OPs point.
  
  [Person shitting in a public pool]
  "Its called a public pool for a reason. I have a right to this water as much as you don't like it."
  
  You probably watch YouTube with the sound on and no headphones in public, too.
  
  God I hate those people.
  
  What the fuck is your logic? “I get a right to air, so I will pollute it for you.”