Please don't smoking

It is disgustful to smoke in a working place especially in the presence of women. There should be a sign of No Smoking should be put everywhere in your office. Or else go out when they smoke to avoid breathing the smoked air.

Hi shengjie! In our country, we have this law that prohibits smoking inside government offices and other public places and conveyances. But still many people can not follow this law. There are smokers everywhere. I hope the government can make strict implementation of the law.

This is difficult for you, especially when your boss smokes too. I understand in China there are no strict No Smoking Laws. Here where I live years ago people could also smoke in the cinema, in hospitals and offices then the ill effects of smoking became known and gradually laws were put into place. No smoking on airplanes anymore, no smoking in the movie theatres, no smoking in hospitals; then offices put in special smoking rooms for their employees. After a while those were closed and there is now no smoking in offices of companies. People have to go outside even in freezing winter weather. Now some sompanies even have rules no smoking within a certain distance of the entrance of the building. In recent years there were also made laws that smkoing is no longer permitted in restaurants and bars. Now there is talk about forbidding smoking in public places such as parks and beaches. Yet, still a lot of people smoke and ruin their health and those of their colleagues like you. I am so sorry you have to suffer this.

I am a non-smoker, the same like my father, who never smoked. I am glad that in my office, my smoking colleagues usually smoke outside the office for the sake of those who don't smoke. They are considerate smokers to us. If it is in a waiting-room like in a hospital, and such, I will tell the person who smokes not to for the sake of others' health. Once a person sitting opposite me in a train kept smoking one by one, I could not bear it and I told him to stop. Instead, he blew smoke towards me. So rude a man he was not only to me, but also to other passengers around. It needs one's sense of consideration before he chooses where to smoke. Anyway, thanks for your discussion.

This would be a dilemma for me too if I were in your place. I'm allergic to smoke as once I inhale some i easily cough and sometimes experience heavy breathing. Your office mates should be considerate and should avoid doing this inside the office but since your boss is also doing it well you really have no other option.

I also do not like this injurious habit of smoking. But when even I have some friends of mine who do the same. You cannot actually be that harsh on them. I try helping them to get rid of it (even I succeeded helping one as long as he was with me) and if I do not see their determination I quietly stop speaking to them in my effort to move away from their life schedule.