What Second hand smoke symtoms do you experience?

I get horrible headaches and have to take Excedrin migraine, my eyes burn and nose runs, I sneeze and cough... a few years ago I was even put on an inhaler. Smokers, have some consideration and go outside to kill yourselves. Non-smokers should have the right to be able to breathe without suffering!

troyboy30 said:

yea the second hand stuff is bad, that's why I smoke! lol

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lol. Same here

Got some bad memories from about 16 years ago here in norway when it was legal to smoke inside the pool hall, I could barly see my aponent across the table(when had no air condition).

I'm a non-smoker. After a couple hours in a smokey hall, my eyes burn and my vision is affected. I smell like crap and the only thing I can do next is shower and either do laundry or air out my clothes. Laundry and showers, laundry and showers.

Following a session of 2nd hand smoke pool, that night's sleep I get congested. Alien critters appear all up in there. I have to clear my throat all the next morning.

What pisses me off the most are the friggin chain smokers and lack of courtesy. Some leave their burning butts in the ash trays. Some blow smoke straight out over the table. IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK THAT ALL SMOKERS BLOW THEIR CONTAGIOUS DISEASE UPWARDS OR AWAY FROM PEOPLE AND CUT BACK JUST A HAIR?

I used to smoke. Been over 2 years without a drag.

Next month NC goes smoke free in public establishments, or supposedly anyway! I hate it for the biz owners, but if everyone plays by the same rules, hopefully they won't lose too much biz. I suspect it will significantly hurt them tho.

6 months today

I am 59 and quit smoking 6 months ago today. Yesterday I played in a private poolroom that allows the players to smoke. I have a bad headache today. Both my grandfathers died of cancer. They were both smokers. Their deaths were pretty horrible, slow and I'm sure pretty painful.

My Dad has cancer of the bladder. He's 81 and has smoked since he was about 13. He looks like death walking.

On the bright side my pool game has really improved since I quit. I also figure that I am saving about $2500. a year by not smoking. I only wish we had a "real" poolroom here in central Ohio. The closest one to me is over 60 miles away. There are a ton of players in my area and no place to play, so we all go to this guys converted garage with 4 bar tables to play and the smoke gets really nasty in their sometimes, cause he lets them smoke.

I know how hard it is to quit, I smoked for over 40 years, so all those out there trying have my sympathy. All I can say is keep trying, its worth it.

When I first came to California, I was playing 5 nights a week in a rock and roll band. There was still smoking in clubs back then. I would get tonsilitis and/or strep throat about 8 times a year. I had to sleep with a humidifier for about a year to ease the symptoms. I had my throat checked recently and luckily did not develop any permanent symptoms. I love the fact that there is no smoking in bars anymore, as I never was a smoker.

I can not stand when people smoke around me. Whenever I leave the pool hall smelling like smoke, I have to take a shower as soon as possible.

stuckintampa said:

Geno,
I suffered through 17 years of direct second hand smoke at the hands of my father...and it left me with horrible asthma. Any time I go to a pool hall where smoking is allowed and spend more than an hour there I wheeze for days. I have to go straight home and wash my hair and clothes. Of course my eyes burn as well. Hopefully over the course of the next few years every state with have an indoor smoking ban and enforce it!



Good job! That is so hard for people to do and you are a testament to what can be done when you set your mind to something!



Don't worry...you will be! You may not have felt it yet, but your lungs were affected. They still are every time you breathe it in. If you ever get a chance to see the "Bodies" exhibit (it was here in Tampa for awhile) I would recommend it. It's a real eye opener!

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i doubt it. if it was going to effect me it would have by now

I am somewhat torn on the issue.

On the one hand, I can see why a smoker would take the position that they should be able to excersize their freedom to slowly kill themsleves any way they so choose.

On the other hand, they take offense when I take the position that they should not be able to make me have to take more showers and wash more clothes just because they want to slowly kill themselves?

I was dealing cards in a casino. Quit because of the smoke. I would wake with my lungs burning.

The day after playing pool my eyes are swelled up, nose stuffed and I have a headache.

Before I go to bed I take a shower and I can smell the smoke "washing" off me.

I get home and put my clothes outside. In the winter time I will leave my coat in the car and walk into the PH or bar in my shirt sleeves because I don't want it to get loaded up.

Some nights I will skip league play because I know that the place will be too smokey.

Hate it that my cue and case smell like smoke from being in those places.

What really bothers me are those smokers that put a cig in a ash tray and just let it burn after they are done with it. Plus there are some that light up a cig and maybe take 2 drags off of it and just let it sit there and burn. Then the smokers will complain that the area is really smokey and something needs to be done.

What second hand smoke symptoms have I experienced? Well I start to win more often. Does that count?

rights

MitchAlsup said:

I am somewhat torn on the issue.

On the one hand, I can see why a smoker would take the position that they should be able to excersize their freedom to slowly kill themsleves any way they so choose.

On the other hand, they take offense when I take the position that they should not be able to make me have to take more showers and wash more clothes just because they want to slowly kill themselves?

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Mitch,

The key for me is that a smoker's "right to smoke" often encroaches on other people's right to smoke free air. Unless you accept that smokers have greater rights than nonsmokers this is wrong. My feeling in all things is that all people are basically equal with equal rights. Therefore each person's rights ends where another's begins. Nobody should have the right to diminish other people's rights in the exercise of their own.

Hu

genomachino said:

Hi there everyone,

I get so sick from the smoke that I can't play after about 3 or 4 hours. It takes me about 2 days to feel good again.:smile:

I was just wondering if everyone that doesn't smoke experiences just some or all of the symptoms that I do.

Could you share your symptoms with us all...............

Thanks geno..............

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My symptoms of second hand smoke are usually confined to one main issue: an itchy throat. I sometimes take Alka Seltzer plus cold medicine the night before a weekend tournament and then the last night, also, to help me from getting sick after being in a pool room all weekend of smoke.

Of course, the other side effects are that everything smells like smoke! My hair, purse, clothes, pool case, etc. So, it lingers....

I haven't noticed the smoke effects my eyes/contacts as others have stated.

And it doesn't effect me like you - I feel okay the very next day after being around smoke.

I rarely wear nicer clothes in a hall.

I never wear a jacket into the pool hall. I don't care if it's 2 degrees out, I'll run to/from the car.

I draw the line at wearing clothes that will need dry cleaning.


But if it came down to the pool hall being open or not - due to lost revenues from prohibition, I'd vote to allow smoking to keep the joint open.

genomachino said:

What Second hand smoke symtoms do you experience?

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Absolute disgust.

CrownCityCorey said:

Absolute disgust.

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Me too Corey!

I think laws that ban smoking are BS. If you dont want to be around the smoke then simply dont go. If enough business is lost because of the smoke the the owner of the bar, poolhall, ect. will set in place his own ban. On the other side if there are enough non smokers that want a smoke free bar, hall, ect. then someone will open one to make a profit. Its no different than strip clubs and headshops, if there is a demand for it someone will open one to make money. SUPPLY AND DEMAND

While a person may have the right to take a piss, it is not their right to do it on my shoes. Second hand smoke is unhealthy and unsanitary, it infringes on the health and well being of innocent bystanders.

As a former, 20+ year smoker, currently on the wagon for over 13 years, I'm probably the worse type of complainer. But I can't stomach the smell of cigarettes reeking from a smoker. I don't think that they even realize, I know that I didn't, how the smell permeates from their pores, stays on their clothes, hair, and breath....don't think I'd be able to "do" Angelina Jolie if she smoked.....well maybe. :wink:

Seriously, not only the ashtray smell, it's really unhealthy and unsanitary. Please stop for your own and your family's benefit. Not to mention the cost.

My semi annual non-smoking rant.

Jim

The local pro here just started getting second hand smoke problems about a year ago. It takes him 2-3 days to recover with cold like symptoms. So now he doesnt play in most local pool tournys but it is only a matter of time until our county goes non-smoking every county around us is non-smoking already.

The things that i would experience.
My throat would HURT at the end of the night (when the room was literally foggy) My contacts would turn into these hard chunks of plastic and kill my eyes. And believe it or not, when i was gambling in a really smoky room, i would be way more awake and alert then when in a non smoky room.


For everyone that thinks they are entitled to blow that crap in my face, i hope your lungs fall the F#$% OUT!
I used to have a solution back in the day for people that blew smoke in my face. It was a can of Lysol in theirs.
That seemed to be the only way to get them to understand exactly how offensive smoking was.

I remember one time, i was at a restaurant that didn't really have a clear cut smoking section. So of course, this couple next to us, finishes before us and proceed to start puffing away while drinking coffee. So I asked if they wouldn't mind puffing the other way, and the guy just completely ignored me, and watched as the smoke drifted towards us and smiled.

SO, as it turns out, the following week, after much convincing, my buddy got me to go back, and we ordered and started eating our food.
While we were eating, the EXACT SAME COUPLE sat right next to us again, but this time, we were finishing up first as their food came out.

So next thing you know, i am done my food, and i have out my little can of air freshener which i made it a point to bring, and i am letting little spurts out here and there while finishing my soda, and you can tell the they both were getting kind of annoyed cause air freshener doesn't exactly taste good when mixed with food.
SO, after about 5 minutes, the guy is really REALLY mad, and basically told me to stop, at which point, my friend jumped in and was like. "What's a matter? Something in the air bothering you? and they guy just glared at us, and as we were walking out, my buddy was like, "maybe next time you'll show some consideration for the people around you that don't smoke, you $%&#"
And the guy got so infuriated that he jumped out of his chair and came flying at us and he crashed into a waitress who had just turned the corner with a tray of drinks and he fell flat on his face.

We took off, and laughed the whole day about it.

Smokers who think they have the right to make my breathing an unpleasant experience cause the feel some entitlement, can just die of lung cancer for all i care. Smokers who do understand that yes, it does bother some people and you make an effort to not make people uncomfortable, go ahead and enjoy your vice. But to the ones who think that their personal space includes the rest of the planet, die already. The world doesn't need you.

JAM said:

Speaking as an ex-smoker, I can see both sides of the fence.

I never realized how offensive smoking was until I quit and began to smell the smoke from others. Oh, man, the hairs in my nose stand straight up. It actually makes me feel a little sick to my stomach. :help:

My boyfriend has given up a lot of bad habits as he has aged. When people hit the half-century mark, they sometimes do a little bit of soul searching and try to improve what years they have left on this earth. Obviously, some habits won't allow people to live a long life. :sorry:

A great pool player from Maryland, Michael "Geese" Gerace, passed away a few years ago at the age of 54 from cancer. He smoked a couple packs a day of Lucky Strikes, without the filter, for many years. Larry Lisciotti also passed away from cancer, and I do know Larry smoked cigarettes.

Of course, people do get cancer from not smoking, but if you smoke, you increase your chances of getting it. :yes:

I have BEGGED my boyfriend to quit smoking. He does smoke outside on the porch today and does not smoke in the house, but I can still smell it when he opens the porch door. I don't even want to go in the porch during the summer months because it stinks now. :barf:

I used to get a headache and swollen red eyes when in a pool room that allowed smoke, and this was when I was still smoking. Imagine that. It still made me sick then, and I continued to smoke. :embarrassed2:

I can remember a few years ago, writing on this very forum, b*tching about having to go outside in the FREEZING COLD in the winter to smoke cigarettes in non-smoking pool rooms. I complained that many smokers will not hang out in establishments where they cannot enjoy their smoking; thus, the reason why some businesses are closing their doors due to the smoking ban.

Well, fast forward to today, and you won't see me in any smoking pool room. Virginia, the tobacco State, will pass a law this month banning cigarette smoke. There is no smoking in Maryland establishments already, and D.C. jumped on board a year or two ago. :wink:

Nobody could force me to quit smoking when I was a smoker. Like any addict, I came up with every excuse why I wanted to smoke. I only wish I had quit sooner. :embarrassed2:

Come this February 16, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., it will be 2 years of me not smoking!
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Amen! I quit smoking over 20 years ago, and it is a resounding testimony to my love of pool that choose to frequent smoky rooms. Thankfully, a smoking ban is coming. Regarding symptoms after playing: headache, heaviness in my chest. Not to mention my clothes reaking so badly that I have to hang them up in garage for 1-2 days. Ridiculous!!