A very brief anecdote and commentary:
I went for a run yesterday to Walgreens to pick up some photographs, and after passing two apartment complexes and no fewer than four smokers in a span of a half-mile, I just want to say that inhaling secondhand smoke while my lungs strain for oxygen is among the most uncomfortable, annoying, and unjust things I have ever experienced, and NOBODY should have to deal with it.
Granted, it was foolish and unusual for me to run outside in 107 degree heat. The more foolish activity, however, is smoking a burning cigarette on a summer day in Phoenix (how is that enjoyable?!), especially when other, non-smoking pedestrians have little to no choice but to inhale the resulting secondhand smoke. I truly empathize with the non-smokers who live in those apartment complexes and walk on that sidewalk daily.
The moral of the story: Smoking is a repulsive, avoidable, and selfish habit...but you knew that already.
Happy Labor Day!
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