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Now here is the funny part...
I smoke cigs. I love my coffee.
I am allergic to alcohol ( recovery does that)
and I have zero desire to load, hold or be near a violent tool of mass murder.
Yet I enjoy my friends and we have other common bonds that are worthy of attending.
They know where my boundaries are, and thankfully I know where theirs are.
No to any pot smokers though.
Just curious - why do you draw the line at pot smokers? It is legal where I live, so perhaps you're just looking at it from a (non) legal perspective. If not, why?
Responsible, legal drinkers, yes. Drug users or smokers of any kind, legal or illegal, no.
I’m too old to put up with it anymore. The addiction wins every time. Smoking is a nasty habit that permeates clothes, hair, car, and home. I always smell like stale smoke after being around a smoker, even if I wasn’t around their smoke.
I have nothing in common with people who have those kinds of addictions. It’s less about the substance and more about their value system. We have different values.
I'm an ex-smoker so I like to smell the smoke from smokers.
I'm the opposite - I don't even like the smell that lingers on a person who smokes when they walk by me in a public place. I had an appointment years ago with a massage therapist and when she walked in smelling like an ash try I just canceled the appointment. The thing is smokers don't realize how badly their house, car and clothes smell until they quit. I could be friends with a smoker but I wouldn't date one.
I'm the opposite - I don't even like the smell that lingers on a person who smokes when they walk by me in a public place. I had an appointment years ago with a massage therapist and when she walked in smelling like an ash try I just canceled the appointment. The thing is smokers don't realize how badly their house, car and clothes smell until they quit. I could be friends with a smoker but I wouldn't date one.
My house and car doesn't smell. They have an aroma. Non smokers keep visiting me so I guess everyone is different.
If you are a non-smoker/user, could you intentionally associate, even be friends with a smoker, vaper, dipper, et cetera? Drug user? Weed user? Edibles eaters? The list goes on.
It seems like a lot of smokers are answering the OP's question. LOL.
I am a non-smoker, my husband is a non-smoker, all of my family and all of my friends are non-smokers. Our handyman is a non-smoker. All our health providers are non-smokers. I literally don't know anyone personally who smokes tobacco or who smells of tobacco smoke. Those who were smokers gave it up or died (sorry, but true). Laws and society here favor non-smokers and I am glad of it. It sucked when we had to endure smoke in restaurants and offices.
With such a wide circle of friends and acquaintances who don't smoke, it is hard to imagine having to choose new friends who are smokers. I guess I'll cross that bridge if and when it happens, but if they only smoke on their own time and I never see it or smell it, I suppose it is possible, but not in our home or car, or at shared social events.
I wouldn't be friends with someone who used illegal substances. There's too many opportunities for them to get you in trouble and that kind of trouble I don't need.
I am friends with someone who smoked and then quit. I even go over to her house weekends to work on our dollhouses, but it's gag inducing sometimes because her husband still smokes and the smell? God! As soon as I come home, I have to strip off all my clothing, even my undergarments and socks, and then go wash my hair because the smell is so bad. I don't even like to stop anyplace on the way home, because people have commented about how I smell like cigarette smoke after I've been to visit my friend.
I never told her, but once she gave me a couple boxes of kleenex when I ran out and I got home and had to toss them. Even wrapped, the cigarette smoke went right into the kleenexes. She offered to let me do laundry at her house when I didn't have a wash machine once. After the first time, I went back to the laundromat because my clothes came out of her dryer smelling like cigarette smoke.
She's a good friend, but I draw the line at being friends with someone who smokes. I could never, ever date or marry someone who was a smoker. I wouldn't be friends with someone who got drunk on a regular basis, either.
I smoked for forty years. Quit about ten years ago. I can't stand the smell of cigarette smoke. I have friends and relatives who smoke, but they aren't permitted to smoke in my home or car. They're fine with that. If they're smoking outside, and it bothers me, I'll move away, and I'm fine with that.
Location: Huntersville/Charlotte, NC and Washington, DC
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I smoke pot, drink excessively, and smoke cigs (trying to quit that one) and i have a lot of friends who do none of the above and we are cool together.
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