this is kind of a strange one… Why is it that mainland Chinese people smoke so many cigarettes
so I know in South Korea it is almost like universal that most Korean men smoke cigarettes because of military trading. Both of them get into it when they are in the military. For two years.
Japanese culture probably has to do with business meetings late night partying.
The philosophy of Mao Zedong
So from what I understand, the strange irony is that I thought that socialism was all about moral and bodily excellence And smoking an alcohol should not be involved.
for example in China, gambling pornography and I believe prostitution is illegal. Yet smoking is allowed?
Thank god for Hong Kong
I was in Hong Kong for a little bit… And one thing I actually really appreciated was there were strict rules against smoking on the waterfront, steep fines, and also a quickly accessible hotline to contact if you reported somebody. The reporting culture in Hong Kong is a bit heavy-handed but effective.
my personal thought is that smoking cigarettes is a moral evil, when done in public or when it harms others. It is OK if you smoke in your single-family house by yourself, or in your car with the windows rolled up. That is fine. But when you smoke in public, the moral evil is that the smoke blows into your lungs, and even worse, into the lungs of your kids.
Fortunately there are new laws which prohibit smoking in most places restaurants planes etc., The law about smoking on a sidewalk is grey.
for me the big problem is the second I smell cigarette smoke, I instantly get mad, it instantly triggers a headache, and it’s funny because if I think about it… Besides myself I don’t know anyone else on this like extreme anti-smoking Crusade, seriously is like one of the things that I hate most on the planet.
fortunately I have balls, and have confronted many many many smokers to not smoke in public, many of whom tried to dismiss me. But I do not back down. I have raised my aggression against many smokers in the past, yet the tricky thing is that it comes back to this… my strategies are not effective, I cannot get them to stop smoking in public or spots that I am walking on typically.
Becoming the police
Perhaps the first simple thought is that like if I was a cop, I could just hand out tickets. This seems like a good idea. But I don’t want to become a cop because I like my freedom
Obviously one of the strategies is just like walk away from the smoker but once again… Often even if you go down the different path, their cigarette smoke travels like half a kilometer down the block. Even if you run away.
even if you wear like a face mask, it does not block out cigarette smoke.