I think less of students who smoke. I don't understand why, in this day of Febreeze and good ventilation, that they drag themselves into class smelling of ashtrays.
I am puzzled by why my colleagues, who have advanced degrees and supposedly know better, maintain such a disgusting habit. Why must you sit next to me at faculty meeting? I don't even have to deal with such smells at bars anymore. Can't I ban smoking at school, too?
Yes, I judge you for your cancer stick puffing. Slap a patch on it already.
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"Yes, I judge you for your cancer stick puffing" - me too! One time I was visiting a potential grad school advisor. When I saw that he smoke I told myself to forget about coming to work for him. Smoking is very repulsive.
I am a little ashamed to admit that I agree with you.
I hate it too. I'm dealing with a fellow student in a fitness class who comes in reeking at 9 am.
HOWEVER, as an ex-smoker who tried many times to quit before getting there (4+ years now), I also have some empathy. You don't just 'slap a patch on it'. Addiction is real and real hard to change.
My first comment got kind of garbled.
Basically, I'm trying to say that feeling self-satisfied/smug/superior about addiction is bad. And we are all susceptible to too much energy spent thinking nasty things about other people- which is also bad.
At the same time, disgust can play a useful role in keeping a nonsmoker (or a former smoker) from picking up a cigarette.
So it's not as simple as just dropping the hate stick either.
I am SO GLAD that my husband quit smoking just a couple of weeks before I met him. If I'd seen him smoking that evening, I NEVER would have dated him!
(He quit completely, cold turkey from about 15 a day, on the day his father told him he'd been diagnosed with lung cancer. But all four of his siblings still smoke. I think he judges them a little for that).
ugh it's the worst!!! the only smoker in my lab is also culturally opposed to good hygiene and deodorant. coming to work can be all kinds of unpleasant in the summer!
As much as I hate to admit it, I'm guilty of the same thing (colleagues and my students)
I do that, too, though Becca has a point... Particularly with those working in our oncology department, I really don't get it. But it bothers me even more with the people in my martial arts group -- having to get close to someone that still smells like ashtray after 1.5h of exercising is just not for me.
I agree that smoking is disgusting. And I say this as someone who was a pretty heavy smoker through most of my teens and 20's (I grew up in a country where smoking is not really frowned upon). It's hard to quit, and having people around who smoke makes it nearly impossible. All the stigma around smoking in the US definitely helps with quitting (and feeling like shit pretty much all the time if you cannot). I finally quit, cold turkey, when I realized I was pregnant. But before that, I tried several times with no success. Now I can't stand the smell and agree that smoking is completely disgusting, but I try to remind myself I really should not be one to judge.
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