Smoke on the water, fire in the sky

[venta]

Another poll, something else I'm curious about:

[Poll #1167182]

Comments

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Apart from the fire hazard, I can't think why smoking in bed should be worse than any other time.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You see, I *do* think it's worse in bed, but can't in any way justify that. Hence being curious as to what other people thought.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

It's like eating biscuits in bed, it drops bits. But, burning bits.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Oh, I definitely don't approve of smoking in bed without an ashtray.

[venta.livejournal.com]

That explains the dangerous, but not the disgusting. I don't have the same "eww" reaction to eating in bed, even though I don't really like crumbs in my sheets.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Surely it'd make the sheets/bedclothes smell horrible! Smoking in bed is one thing, sleeping/waking with the smell of stale smoke and the sight of yellowy sheets with cigarette-burns in them just seems positively minging. Though I suppose if you smoke then your clothes/hair always pong & you probably have very little sense of smell left anyway.

(No, I don't smoke. But I wasn't sure which option best described "tried it as a teenager, natch; guiltily enjoyed the habit/image, but couldn't really get into the mouthful-of-ick and clothes-always-stinking aspect of it".)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Then again, I think smoking in the street is incredibly uncouth, and can't understand why the Government is forcing people to do it.

(A little tongue in cheek here - I do actually support the ban on smoking in workplaces and public buildings, and think that this is the lesser or two evils)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

The second question is one of those polls where I want to tick more than one options - I do think smoking's disgusting anywhere, but I also think it's worse in bed.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Trouble is, if you give people tickyboxes they just tick everything. You'll just have to decide what your overriding opinion is :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Then you should have a radio button saying "Smoking's disgusting anywhere, in bed's EVEN DISGUSTINGER ICK ICK ICK".
I'd have clicked that one too.

[snathe.livejournal.com]

I still love the irony of the fact that I am the only non-smoker in my entire immediate family, yet I am the one who suffers the collapsed lung and ends up fighting for my life in hospital...

[battyblingtrash.livejournal.com]

It used to really piss me off when my ex got OUT of bed to smoke :/
then i got bronchitus, and basically wanted him as far away from me as possible.
little shit :L

[mrph.livejournal.com]

"Non-smoker, never really a smoker but did end up smoking cigarettes or cigars five or six times a year for a couple of years"

It's definitely past tense, so 'occasional' doesn't seem to fit - and both "ex-smoker" and "never have" seem a bit misleading.