Coughing

What do you do when you cough?

- Some people cover their mouth with their hand and effectively seal away the germs, while forgetting that they coughed on their hand prior to shaking a person's hand and unwittingly spread their germs.
- Other people cough on a closed fist which actually spreads the germs over a wide radius, making holding your fist up to "cover" your cough actually pointless.
- Another alternative is to cough into the pit of your elbow where not many people would bother to touch you or come into contact with. The most sanitary way although a bit unorthodox. Me and one other person are the only ones I've ever known to do this, me having picked it up only recently.
- Some people don't cover their mouth at all. This is gross. I don't like when one friend doesn't even bother to cover his mouth and coughs freely into the air and into other people's faces. I can understand not covering one's mouth when no one it around or people are far away though.

What do you think of other people who cough a certain way?
Of course the above points apply as well.

Do you even think that one has to cover all his or her coughs? Sick coughs? Coughs from swallowing at the wrong time? Coughs for tickles in your throat when you're not sick?

How ya doing, buddy?