Smoking really does make me gag and cough

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I have read comments online by smokers that people do passive aggressive coughs around them and call them fake coughs. To me that is just rude because some people are really sensitive to that stuff and when I get exposed to it, I cough. The smell is so strong and it just makes me gag and cough. I have to be close to you for that to happen and if I walk by you, I hold my breath before I breath again so I won't cough and gag.

One time I was going to work and there were these teens or young adults on the commute train and they were smoking. They were not supposed to but they were. That stuff smelled terrible and it wasn't second hand smoke, it was something else and then it got stronger and stronger and it was making my eyes water and I was trying to not cough. I then had a reaction and I bolted out of my seat and got the hell out of there and went to the other side of the train. Then when I got off, one of them flung their cigarette at me but didn't actually throw it. No it was not an act, I did have a reaction to the smell.

Someone smelling like second hand smoke or cigars isn't going to make me gag and cough because there is no smoke. I still don't like the smell but it won't make me cough and gag.

I'm pretty sensitive to that too thou it doesn't sound like I'm as sensitive to it as you are. I have a lot of sinus & allergy problems so I assume it's related to that. I take two allergy meds daily & various things still aggravate me.

It makes me sick, too. I can't be anywhere near it.

It's disgusting, especially when people smoke in areas where it is not allowed.

Tobacco smoke makes me gag, cough, hold my breath and it gives me headaches. It is absolutely repulsive in every way. If someone who had been smoking sits down beside me, the smell of smoke on their clothes is so disgusting that I will simply get up and move across the room or the bus to get away from them, regardless of how rude it may seem.

If I smell cigarette smoke unprepared at all, I go into meltdown and perhaps worse, I bolt in it. Being in smoke is to me like drowning, like being betrayed by my breath.

I'm sure that if I was born in a smoking household, I would of ended up intellectually delayed and likely level 3.

I am totally anti-smoking. I hate it. It is the most repulsive habit.

I see young people under 40 smoking, and they may not be coughing or having breathing difficulties yet but if they keep up the smoking they will suffer later. My boyfriend is over 40 and he's been a heavy smoker since he was 13. He has the most loudest, irritating cough, which keeps him awake at night. So he's gotten himself into a vicious circle:-

Smokes ----> can't breathe and coughing at night causing imsomnia ----> sleep deprived at work -----> work seems more stressful because tired ----> smokes to 'ease stress' ----> and repeat.

^ Maybe he should switch to "vaping". I've heard people say it's the only way they've been able to stop smoking.

Oh yeah, the "hey, I'm stressed, that's why I smoke" excuse. Except the stress comes right back almost immediately once you finish.. It's expensive, time consuming, a nasty habit, and may become chronic. Then sure you have the 5-10% that can smoke on occasion without picking it up as a habit. It has absolutely no rewarding benefits whatsoever but people do it anyway.

The thing that annoys me most about smokers is when they develop a "smoker's cough" and start having smoking-related breathing problems, and they go to their doctor who tells them that the first thing they should do is to quit smoking, and then as soon as they come out the doctors they light up a cigarette and carry on as before. To me, that is wasting the doctors time. In the UK, even the doctors surgeries in small towns are always overbooked because there are so many people, so the doctors don't need time-wasters.

Most smokers develop the strangest attitudes about their smoking, like "I know smoking kills but then you might get knocked down by a car tomorrow." OK that is true, you might get killed walking down the street by a car tomorrow, but that doesn't make inducing the risk of dying appropriate. It'd be like me standing in the middle of the road right now and people saying "what are you doing, you fool? You might get killed!" and me replying, "well, I might get killed anyway when walking safely on the sidewalk, so I might as well just stand here in the middle of the road."

Oh, and apparently vaping is just as dangerous as smoking, otherwise why have they banned vaping in public buildings and transport? I don't know if they have elsewhere in the world but they sure have in the East UK.

i still do that too a little bit.



guess i should smoke more.