"Simon Brown" wrote in message ...
"Gav" wrote in message
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I'm not a smoker but I have no problem with people lighting up on
chairlifts. It's outdoors so I don't get affected by the smoke and
the chairlift ride typically only lasts a few minutes anyway.


Lovely clean pure Alpine air spoilt by a selfish bugger with no regard for
others? Death's too good for them.

Though I agree with you, Simon, I also see the smoker's side to the
story. The effect of one bloke with a rollie on a chairlift is
negligible - hardly likely to impact the OP at all. In fact, if I was
also on chair with a non-smoker and a smoker, and the non-smoker made
such a comment, I (a non-smoker) would be inclined to "borrow" a stick
and light up, too, just tomake the point. If the OP phrased his
sentence as he did above, he'd have been certain to get as much of my
secondhand smoke as possible. If, OTOH, he said, "Would you mind not
smoking until we're off the lift - different story.

That said, fresh mountain air smells odd to me, a town-dweller. Odd
in a nice kind of way, that is.

What irks me is that fact that smokers drop their dog-ends wherever
they go. During my drive to work I get flaming fag-ends flying
towards my car God knows how many times, usually thrown by
inconsiderate ****s in BMWs and Mercs. If they don't want the smell
of the smoke in their cars, WTF are they smoking in the forst place?
Their clothes already smell, so why not the car seats?

The environmental effect of the smoke is no doubt negligible when
compared to the crap that gets used to keep the Cresta Run cold, the
snow blowers running, and the pisteurs working all night, but I can't
see that damage as easily as I can see the mess left by smokers.

--
Hywel