Cigarette smoke

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Completely agree with nearly everyone here that being near someone who is smoking is one of the most annoying things. As an asthmatic it causes me some serious breathing problems. I usually hold my breath around smokers, or (and this is a pet peeve) if someone is smoking and walking in front of me, I jog ahead of them just to be free of that rancid smell.

I've always hated the smell of cigarette smoke. Every time my mum would light up when I was little, I'd get as far away from her as I could. Between the ages 7 and 10, I'd take her full cigarette boxes and attempt to throw them in the garbage. My mum would always catch me in the act with the box in my hand. The best day of my life was the day that my mum quit smoking.

Ideally I'd just as soon not be around cigarette smoke but it doesn't bother me very much if it's in moderation.
I usually don't notice unless it's excessive or inside of a car.

That's exactly my reaction! I cannot tolerate the smell of cigarette smoke. Even one whiff of it gives me a wicked headache for the rest of the day.
I'm live near a large city where many, many people smoke. I'm quite rude if I see someone smoking. I hold my breath, pinch my nose, and dash past them until I need to breathe again. It's so irritating. I really wish it was illegal to smoke in public.

often i feel like choking them. save them years of suffering.

I can't stand second hand smoke. I just move away from it. I also hate it when they do it at the bus stop or smoke near entrances at malls and stores. But my state outlawed public smoking and you can't smoke no more than 10 near the building so that issue is over and resrurants no longer have a smoking area and hotels have no more smoking rooms. Now I am noticing bus stops here have the no smoking signs. The days of holding my breath are over and I didn't have to deal with smokey rooms anymore when I worked at the hotel. I have no problems with smoking areas, I just stay away from them. I also don't mind if people at my home take a step outside and smoke but it doesn't stop the smell from wafting in my home and they take a step back inside.

I remember how bad it was in Canada when I was there. I couldn't go in restaurants because of the smoke. But luckily the malls there had no smoking nor stores. I was so glad to be living in the USA where fast food restaurants don't allow smoking like Canada does. Laws may have changed since then because this was back on 1999.

Yes! Both of my parents smoked a pack a day in the house when I was growing up and didn't even care that I was sensitive to it, it made me physically ill and I was bullied for smelling like it. Now everytime someone lights up a cigarette in public I'll get as far away from the line of smoke as possible, and if I'm at home and my parents light up around me or I'm in a car with a smoker, basically somewhere I can't get away, I have a meltdown. I hate it.

I'm sensitive to it. If someone is smoking in the garden I can tell from my room on the floor above.
I hold my breath if I have to pass a smoker on the street.
I notice it more than I used to I think because smoking is allowed in fewer public places and I don't have to endure it on a daily basis now.
Some people have tobacco breath after smoking roll-ups and it makes me gag.

Since sometimes its windy or cold outside I think I would have preferred when it was the norm to smoke inside, I hate when the wind wastes half my cigarette or having to freeze my but off to have one.

In fact this thread kind of makes me want a cigarette, be back in a few...