Trying A Different Tack....

Frustratingly, I had left my blue salbutamol inhaler at home – it was a sunny day and I was travelling light – so had to go home much earlier than I wanted to. In truth, whenever the blowback of a cigarette hits my face, I can expect to wheeze and struggle for the rest of the day. This is the sad reality for many of us asthma sufferers. An attack can be triggered by the slightest stimulus, so we stay wedded to our inhalers because of our condition.

But....you clearly don't 'stay wedded' at all. You didn't forget it, you admit you left it at home!

It is my personal belief that smoking while walking on the street should be regulated, and that there should be designated smoking areas in outdoor public spaces, or at least a push to make smoking a stationary activity when done outside.

It's not dawned on you that it doesn't really matter if the smoker remains stationary, the smoke won't?

It may sound a bit extreme...

You're not kidding! That's just one of the words that sprang to mind...

...and will no doubt make me wildly unpopular – as well as seeming deeply unfun – ...

Those weren't quite the words that sprang to mind either!

...but it feels to me a fair policy befitting a city that prides itself on safety and tolerance for everyone.

Tolerance for everyone except smokers?

Just as we would expect a person to give up their seat on the tube to someone who might need it more, so too should a smoker respect that the person they are walking by might have an invisible respiratory condition.

And so we see the anti-smoking loons switch horses to push the notion that smoking is somehow 'disablist'.