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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fyrtwuck" data-source="post: 3146874" data-attributes="member: 23">My mom and dad were both chain smokers. There was always a smoky haze in the house. I never had any interest in smoking and never tried it. I never knew how bad it was till I left home for basic and came back afterwards. My mother, in her later years had COPD and I had to take her to numerous doctors appointments and the ER. I started having breathing problems after some of those trips. I went to an allergy specialist and along with several other things, it was determined that I was allergic to cigarette smoke. The doctor said I had developed the allergy because of their second hand smoke. I had to take allergy shots for several years. I have to stay away from smokers. If the smoke hits me, it’s like someone tried to shove a tennis ball down my throat. I can’t breathe, nausea sets in you can guess from there. I have to be cautious if I see someone smoking outside. I either stay upwind from them or move out of the area completely. My GF of fifteen years was a smoker and she always went outside to smoke because she saw how it affected me. When the Vape thing started, it was tolerable, but I always tried to get her to cut down on the nicotine percentage and ween herself off of it completely. She was down to 8% when she took ill and died in 2016.</blockquote>