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ellenater: Well said. I agree that smokers deserve empathy, especially the ones that want to quit but can’t do it. I’ve had plenty of friends and family who have smoked. In addition to the grandparents I’ve lost, I have a beloved uncle in South Carolina who right now is in late stage emphysema and on an oxygen tank because of smoking. It’s not a pretty sight.
That barbershop owner absolutely is not evil. To date she had always been a capable and friendly person. That perhaps makes it all the more frustrating that she made a really bad choice. Again, it would have been really easy for her to step outside and smoke. But for whatever reason she didn’t. And I wasn’t the only one in the shop that day. There was another barber and another customer that was sitting in there breathing that cigarette smoke-filled air (smoke that contains 60 known carcinogens).