Ok so I was the ONLY smoker in my social circle. Haven't been around analog smoke since I stopped
vaping basically. Except for the occasional lingering smoke in the doorway of public places or smelling smoke on a passerby.
Today, on my weekly grocery trip, I was walking up the bread aisle and it hit me. There was a handsome man coming towards me and at first I got a whiff of what reminded me of my Turkish Blend if I actually smoked it instead of vaped it. Found it quite pleasant. As he drew nearer, the smell combined with the smoke and I found myself unable to breathe deeply. How weird after smoking for as long and as much as I have. Oddly my son didn't smell it (maybe because of the teens in his school carrying that smell on their clothes)
On the next aisle, picking up salad fixings, I smelled it before I turned around. It seemed to be even stronger this time. Again, I found myself losing my breath and even my son commented on it. Long after the gentleman had left the aisle, the cloying smell and effect lingered. We stayed on that aisle to reduce any possiblity that we would run into him again. Up until now I could smell smokers just fine and they never had that effect. Leaving the store, I was caught in someone's after-smoke and the same thing happened tho this smelled like plain Marlboro.
After being around absolutely 0 smoke is this the way its going to be? Maybe I need to pick up an occasional analog. I don't want to be trapped in my house by giving up smoking because I can't breathe around smoke... Weird.