I'm a former smoker but not militant about it. Like many other former smokers the smell is probably more irritating after quitting. Outdoors I just quietly remove myself from the cloud whenever possible.
However the sight of smoking while riding a bicycle just rankles me. It's like watching a kid pick his nose. Stopping and lighting up doesn't even cause me a second glance.
It's clearly my problem. Completely illogical. Don't even know why I'm posting this. There.. I said it. :eek:

Cycling Smokers have more fun! Believe it!

Hey that cops got her helmet strap on BEHIND her head! :roflmao2:

AHAHAHA!!!

That is great!

"It's nice to see that you are still easily riled up and make as much sense as usual."

I'm sorry. I forgot that only you and those you agree with are entitled to an opinion.

I believe that ex-smokers like myself have very little right to criticize smokers. We all did exactly the same things that we get so sanctimonious about with current smokers. I find I am much LESS able to tolerate cigarette smoke AFTER quitting than I was before I smoked. Yet even so, the whiff of cigarette smoke i get from passing cars is no more than another bad smell to me. Some people here have the attitude of a guy who wrote a letter to editor of the local paper back when there were separate smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. The writer wrote self-rightiously about how he and his wife were at the last table of the non-smoking section. He complained that smoke from the first table in the smoking section was bothering his wife-a non-smoker. He asked the smoker to stop and when he refused, saying he was in the smoking section, the letter writer freaked out, causing a scene in the diner. The writer bemoaned that he was a smoker for 20 years and that HE was able to quit, and why couldn't the guy in the diner stop, since it was causing his wife so much distress? Apparently, it never dawned on this pinhead that maybe 2 decades of him fouling the house where his wife lived with HIS cigarette smoke, was the REAL issue. So, I am slow to criticize the smoker, especially when he/she is obeying the rules.

At least I know how to use the quote button.
Just because you have an opinion doesn't make it right.

Incorrect. We have all the rights to criticize having been there ourselves.

"Incorrect. We have all the rights to criticize having been there ourselves."

Yup, just like the guy who's too old to carry on anymore, who "sees the light" and now trys to stop others from doing what he LOVED to do when he was able.

Interesting, indeed! I quit smoking over 5 years ago, but when I did smoke I would occasionally ride with a cigarette. But mostly not, because I found it a distraction. The vast majority of the time I would light up after a ride.
Luv the handlebar mounted ashtray.... looks like something I would put together.

Old? Me?
lol
Now use the quote button.

Love this. Appreciate your candor. I've been a militant anti-cigarette guy since 1973 when I worked at a juvenile corrections institution and was required to drive the kids to the store so they could illegally buy cigarettes, then return to the 'cottage' and smoke them en mass to the detriment of everyone present.

Go figure. Times have changed.

Never smoked cigarettes, but enjoy a good cigar once in a while. I already enjoy riding helmetless past a group of helmeted riders uphill (sometimes it's the other way around :( ).

But I think adding smoking a cigar to the routine is just the right touch. You have to admit that the image of an old fart, sans helmet, puffing on a cigar and passing a bunch of lycra clad helmet wearling kids uphill is a sweet picture. Of course, pulling it off is another thing. :)

Cyclists getting amped about cigarette butt litter is hilarious. I don't smoke, but butts are cotton and paper. How long do you think your worn out tires sit in a landfill, your stretched out chains, and worn saddles? Oh sure you don't throw them on the side of the road, but they don't magically disappear when they hit the trash.

In that case the next time I change a flat I will toss the tube alongside the road in front of your home.

Wrong. They are not made of cotton.
Cigarette butts are made from a type of acetate that never fully breaks down.

I was reading another thread that claims that a cigarette can remedy a bee sting or mosquito sting? Does anyone have any info on this?

Search on google. There seems to be a bit of info stating that it helps reduce the swelling.

Yes, because where you put them now they degrade into fairy dust.

True. Recycling my tubes does nothing to help them degrade.

I said tires. Do you mean reuse, as I'd love to find out who figured out how to recycle tires.

I said tubes.
try reading my post.
Anyhow, I recycle my tires as well. Care to argue about something else?

I keep seeing powerbar and goo wrappers along the bike trail, those bicyclists are such litterers.

Internal Ganja Hookah

The city here will take my used bicycle tires and recycle them. They won't take automotive tires, but they do take bicycle tires.

Besides, automotive tires can be recycled - its just a little bit of a complex procedure, still much better then stockpiling them, or throwing them into landfills.

Ah, hmmm, that's Mister Internal Ganja Hookah, thank you :p