Cigarette Smokers 💨 💨

Cigarette smoking is, in general, an odd thing to me.

Most smokers I think would agree that it's a bad habit and wish it were easy to quit. So very well; to each their own.

But then there are certain aspects of chain smoker culture that totally baffle me. One of them is littering their butts on the ground.

(If you're so addicted that you need to be smoking right now, wherever you happen to be standing, it's still on you to find a trash can, as you'd do if you were eating a ham sandwich or drinking a Gatorade. Your degree of addiction doesn't change the norm.)

And then there are the people who show up smoking in your face, at a bus stop or while you're sitting on a bench or at a crosswalk waiting for the light to turn, etc.

If other people need to congregate and stand there, how is it not just super obvious that you shouldn't blow your gross harmful smoke on them?

I'm sure most people who smoke cigarettes agree with me and don't do this. Indeed, it's a sub sect who reflect poorly on the group in general.

I've barked at them or made snide comments before. You really have to be in the mood for it, and nothing good has ever really flowed out of it.

Perhaps I could change my approach with them. I actually am genuinely curious about the thought process (or lack thereof). Do they realize it's probably a nuisance to other people and just don't care, or is it more like it's never occurred to them that other people might not like it?

Maybe next time I'm in the mood to confront them, I'll be gentle and curious about it.

In the meantime, I've decided to take a picture of them.

Today we had that goon do it at a traffic light. (It's Halloween 👻 but my feeling is she'd fit the criteria of a goon any day.)

My little steemit blog isn't as action-packed as it used to be. Once in a while Hive account@rasamuel will stop by. But maybe I can be an inspiration to others and more people can do this.

It feels very satisfying and right anyways. You're gonna be weird and smoke a cigarette in my face, okay.. I'll step a safe distance away and point my camera at you.

Goon.