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I used to smoke (been vaping for the past 6 years), I'd have no problem dating a smoker, especially if they were a super nice person who treated me with respect and whom I enjoyed being with.
I was brought up on a farm and the smell of cow manure makes me nostalgic, so smoke certainly wouldn't be a deal breaker for me.
.........kinda mad to be in an elevator with a lady wearing perfume, ........
Smoking is a deal breaker. Recently quit smoking is also a deal breaker. I don't want to invest in a relationship and then have my partner fall off the wagon and start smoking again a few months later.
Heavy use of perfume or after shave can also be a deal breaker, except that a person can easily stop using scents to please a partner and won't have to take it up again just because they are addicted to it.
Actually, any sort of addictive behavior is a deal breaker; smoker, drunk, drug addict, shoplifter, gambler....
I smoke, it's awful and I hate being addicted to it. The only reason that my attempts to quit haven't stuck, is I hate myself more as a psycho. Like many smokers, I wish I'd never started.
So not only do I completely understand anyone not being willing to deal with it, I am happy my partner doesn't smoke since I truly do want to quit, and if anything, him being a smoker also would make a very hard thing even harder.
See that’s what I don’t get. It’s a smell you’re talking about then? The reactions here are seemingly extreme. I hate the smell of some foods in the office. It makes me kinda mad to be in an elevator with a lady wearing perfume, my mouth sometimes waters even, only one kind of men’s cologne smells good to me...and those people think they smell good. I can definitely tell when someone’s been smoking, even if they chew gum and spray air freshener.
The smokers though, out of all types of “offenders”, seem to induce almost a violent reaction:
“Disgusting! Idiot! Vomit! So stupid!”
I wonder what the reaction would be if I went around the office or bar telling people who’s scent I didn’t like: “You might as well have crapped yourself idiot!”
Sorry, but the nasty smell of smoke vs. food or cologne/perfurme smells doesn't compare. Not at all. It doesn't even come close.
Sorry, but the nasty smell of smoke vs. food or cologne/perfurme smells doesn't compare. Not at all. It doesn't even come close.
To you. I get to say what I think is worse. I hate the smell of some women's perfume, it's like an old avon lady crapped herself, so I guess it's equal. No I don't smoke. I have tolerance for people with body odor, perfume, ethnic food cooking and unwashed clothing, smokers, I encounter it all during the week. If it's the smell, move away from them. If it's that you don't want second hand smoke to bother you that's different, but we all hate different things.
One of the ways suggested to quit smoking is for the smoker to put their butts in a jar, and then to sniff it themselves afterward. Many I've run into who are smokers and here this don't want to do that.
Same reason why they flick the butt out of the car window.
To you. I get to say what I think is worse. I hate the smell of some women's perfume, it's like an old avon lady crapped herself, so I guess it's equal. No I don't smoke. I have tolerance for people with body odor, perfume, ethnic food cooking and unwashed clothing, smokers, I encounter it all during the week. If it's the smell, move away from them. If it's that you don't want second hand smoke to bother you that's different, but we all hate different things.
But as someone else said, not putting on perfume is very easy for most people. Quitting smoking isn't. Surely, you know this. And as mentioned, secondhand smoke is hazardous. While some people are allergic to perfume, it isn't in the same league from a health standpoint. Surely, you know this.
The two, objectively, are very different animals from a health standpoint and an addiction standpoint. We could argue the smell is subjective, but I think it's fair to say perfume is designed to smell good to most people. Cigarette smoke is just a nasty byproduct. Surely, you know you're the outlier if you find the smell of perfume to be as bad or worse than cigarette smoke.
But as someone else said, not putting on perfume is very easy for most people. Quitting smoking isn't. Surely, you know this. And as mentioned, secondhand smoke is hazardous. While some people are allergic to perfume, it isn't in the same league from a health standpoint. Surely, you know this.
The two, objectively, are very different animals from a health standpoint and an addiction standpoint. We could argue the smell is subjective, but I think it's fair to say perfume is designed to smell good to most people. Cigarette smoke is just a nasty byproduct. Surely, you know you're the outlier if you find the smell of perfume to be as bad or worse than cigarette smoke.
That’s what I posted, and also explained. If you’re talking about the smoke itself, than yes, health hazard. If your intent is to be insistent that everyone find the same smell to be the most disgusting, then no.
We each find different things to be offensive, “surely you know this?” We don’t all have the same opinion on SMELL, that isn’t an “outlier” position.
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