Say No To Smoking - Low educated, anti-social people smoke!

Always making excuses that's what smokers do if they can't give up on smoking. Both my exes were heavy smokers and couldn't give up on it. To be honest, I do not care if these people die of cancer, what is worse is that those forced "to smoke along" (inhale the smoke) suffer from lung diseases and cancer more frequently than the smoker himself. I feel for all those children growing up with parents smelling after cigarettes.
You can call me harsh, rude, or whatever but I don't care. If I eat candies 24/7 it's my health, my body I damage not my children's, my partner's, my friends, or those of strangers on the bus, in shops, or in restaurants.

My( grand)parents were non-smokers.

I do not remember one single family member who smoked, so indeed you might say that I am lucky not to have grown up in a house that, even those who walk by, can recognize as the house of a smoker.
Smokers smell, or should I say stink, and not only if they are smoking. Each time they speak you smell the nicotine, if they walk by or walk two meters in front of you, you smell them. It's as terrible as men using too much aftershave or women too much perfume. It literally takes my breath away.

Smokers do not taste and smell as good as non-smokers, at least if it comes to those not being forced to be around smokers. I always wondered why smokers eat in fancy restaurants if they can't taste what the cook put his heart and soul into. The worst experience for me is to make a reservation and sit next to a table of smokers. Public transport has always been hell too (a good reason to buy my own car). I feel for those who can't stand the smell or get breathing issues because of the smell of tobacco (it's not about cigarettes only but cigars, and pipe smell too just like the e-cigarettes which are already forbidden here because they are even more dangerous to a person's life). If you want to smoke pull a bag on your head and enjoy all the smoke and extras you can have from your cigarette.

In the past 5 decennia,

I learned that reason can not be talked into smokers.
The smoker doesn't care about his health, cancer, coughing his lungs out, being infertile, having a shorter life span, or smelling worse than a wet dog. All those pictures printed on the packages they buy do not impress the smoker. They are blind if it comes to reason, their health, and the health of those they claim they love, and if it comes to ugly pictures: one gets used to everything.
A smoker smokes because in his opinion it's a cool thing to do, and if there's someone to blame it is the tobacco industry. Friends and families shouldn't complain nonstop because smoking isn't that bad at all.

The average smoker gets aggressive if you try to be supportive, calculate how much money can be saved, how different food will taste, and how good everything will smell. Why should a smoker care about health if smoking is the only thing he enjoys in life and it keeps him slim?

To me breaking up the relationship was the best thing I could do.
Perhaps I even helped one ex since he said giving up on smoking was the best thing he ever did (next step giving up on being an alcoholic?). The other ex still smokes and like he said: I will continue doing it because you don't marry me. Sure, that will be the reason. Sounds to me like being manipulative, and playing the one to be pitied is an attitude of smokers as well. If it comes to smokers they aren't the people with a strong will otherwise they wouldn't smoke. To me, it's as simple as that. If you are not a personality and do not have a strong character you easily give in to whatever others offer you or try to force upon you. I spent enough years of my life trying to save people, people who do not want to change. I didn't have an easy life myself, plenty of reasons to be an addict, and of course, people did offer me a cigarette but I always rejected it with the words: I do not smoke. No one said I was a loser because I didn't smoke.

I remember I was at high school about 12 or 13 years old.
Through the hallway. this slogan was written: Roken is niet stoer en het het helpt geen moer, dus je bent een oen als je het blijft doen (smoking isn't cool and it doesn't help, you are a fool if you keep doing it). This was over 40 years ago and back then in Dutch schools, students already fought smokers

For many years I was not able to go out, visit a restaurant, go to a discotheque or cafe just because of the smokers. Being surrounded by people holding a burning cigarette is not my idea of having fun: burned clothes, skin, stinking hair, and clothes and ending up sick because of someone else's a-social attitude. Smokers spoiled many years of my social life and today I am happy smoking in public areas is forbidden. Let the smoker smoke at home, preferably in his room. neighbors are not confronted with if they enjoy sitting outside.

If a smoker gets ill because of smoking he should pay for the doctor himself or not receive medical help. I don't think nonsmokers should pay the bill like happens in my country where health insurance is so expensive that many can no longer afford to pay for it.