Rage against sidewalk smokers blowing smoke in my face!

Why is it that whenever I walk the sidewalks of Santiago I have to continually dodge the smokers who are lighting up and puffing smoke is the faces of those beside/behind them? How do their bodies handle the toxins that the cigarettes put into their bodies?

It’s not like it is in the states, where the sidewalks look pretty and everyone stares at the people who actually walk on them as they drive by in their cars. No, the sidewalks in Santiago are used and overused as people scurry from one place to the next! I walk at least a mile of sidewalks a day while consistently dodging the smokers who seem to take delight ravaging their bodies and then mine with their toxic smoke. I seem to have lost the accepting attitude of ‘Just ignore the smoke that was just blown into your face’ and move with the crowd! No, I will not just ignore them! I will fight to cut in front of them, just so that I can find another person who abruptly stops walking, turns their head and blow out their smoke filled lungs right into my face as I try not to bump into them and avoid the other people around me.

Over 40% of Chileans smoke! Over 26% of teenagers smoke at least 2 cigarettes a day, I am talking about kids age 13 and older! How do these people live to be 50? Why are they trying to kill me and my family??????

Rant, Rage, and Rave, I still have to face them as I make my way down the sidewalk tomorrow, but as least I feel better after venting! At least until the next puff of smoke is blown in my face!