Listen, you young whippersnapper, you think it's "fashionable" to not look down on smokers now? You should have been around in the decades before you were born. I'm also allergic to cigarette smoke, and my dad has been a heavy smoker my whole life. I spent my childhood with a constantly itchy throat, that my mother spent much time and effort trying to deduce the cause of (she was an RN in her working days). She took away dairy (which I loved), put me on daily Sudafed (makes you drowsy!), and did everything other than look at the man puffing a pack in the house every day, because it never would have occurred to her that smoke might be the problem- hell, she was a social smoker when she would have a drink (Riunite on ice because my mom was classy like that). I didn't know myself until I went to college and my allergies cleared up because I wasn't living in a smoking household anymore.
Nowadays my dad only smokes in the garage, because my stepmom, god bless her, won't stand for a home that smells like an ashtray.
Smokers actually get a hell of a lot of abuse nowadays (some of which is warranted- hello, is it that f*cking hard to stub out your g*dd*mn burning stub before you throw it away from you with no regard to where you are throwing it? I had a coat set on fire by a smoker doing that), compared to the 1970s and before.
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