Non-smoker privilege Replace thin with non-smoker and fat with smoker, lols ensue  Non-smoker privilege systematically reduces each of us to our wallet size, lung capacity, and genetics, then grants favors, opportunities, or simple lack of punishment when the cigarette numbers are low enough.  When you have non-smoker privilege it doesn’t mean that your individual experience of being a non-smoker is necessarily positive, or that you haven’t been called names or discriminated against. It also doesn’t mean that every single person who smokes feels stigma as keenly as another. Some people who smoke might have grown up with supportive families in supportive environments and never encountered the kinds of smoker stigma other people encounter. Non-smoker privilege is a social phenomenon that exists as a function of smoker stigma, and it exists regardless of someone’s personal experience being a non-smoker or a smoker. Smoker stigma is real, pervasive, and forceful. It invades entertainment, science, news reporting, advertising, sports, business, family planning (like adoption and fertility treatments and being called an abusive parent by virtue of you or your child being a smoker), education, dating/love/sex/marriage, fiction, travel, academia…. and on and on and on. Stigma and privilege exist regardless of whether we, personally, experience them. And though I’m sorry non-smoking people get shit for their "non-coolness" — that’s wrong, and contemptible — it doesn’t obviate non-smoker privilege or smoker stigma. Further, non-smoker privilege is not about consequences of smoking. ‘Not smoking’ is the social state of healthiness, the state of being seen and/or physically accepted as not a smoker. There is no consideration here why someone is a smoker or not. Non-smoker privilege exists no matter how it’s ‘won,’ no matter whether the non-smoking person wants privilege or not, no matter how much a smoker wishes they had access to those privileges as a result of their own good behavior, character, or health. (smoketolife) The purpose of the blog is to illustrate the privileges (in this case defined as special rights, advantages, or immunities granted to or available only to one person or group of people) that non-smoking people receive in modern society and the discrimination against smokers that results in those privileges. The further purpose being the hope of non-smoking people becoming aware of and acknowledging these privileges, the hope that this will slowly assist in a change of the social hive-mind perceptions of smokers, and finally to provide a place where smokers can discover that they are not alone in the discrimination they experience. (lunganarchy)