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Threads like this make me want to throw my butts on the ground just to annoy people.

As we've been through many times on CP, to me the extremely anti smoking crowd just want something to complain about. I also dislike inconsiderate people and I'm could create a dozen threads on the things that annoy me. However I like to think that when it comes to things that annoy me I'm not just as inconsiderate back to them.

Let me be clear I think that people have the right to avoid smoke and litter just as people have the right to smoke. My point here is that something about this topic makes people completely polarized and get very angry about things that in the grand scheme of things are fairly minor.

In some cases peoples attitudes are no different than people egging on a person with severe road rage. Sure I hate bad driving but I don't scream at and belittle every bad driver I see. I just deal with it and move on.

Not saying it is all of CP that has this attitude but the high horse and holier than thou comments seem to be front and center when smoking comes up.

Something about smoking that makes a small group of people act like compete aholes and as such makes me less likely to be courteous just out of spite. I guess the fact that I casually smoke means I'm automatically a hindrance and degenerate in society who needs to be systematically wiped out makes me a little bit defensive. The common misconception that anyone who enjoys having a smoke is a piece of trash is a pretty demeaning.

I'll admit it seems that not everyone feels this way but much like the anti abortion people the stupid seems to drown out the sensible and all I hear are the ludicrous complaints and anti smoker rhetoric.

For the rest of you who are polite about not wanting smoke near you and litter, I'm sorry but until the aholes quit pissing me off I'm not going to change.

That being said I rarely throw my butts on the ground and don't have kids to smoke around but I'm sure some of the anti smoking Nazis could find something I do worth complaining about or telling me certain places I can't smoke even if I'm not inconveniencing anyone.