Smoking.

[CosmicJoghurt]

My favourite vegetable is tobacco.

i really, really, really expected to read "tomacco".

 

[Nemesiah]

Smoking is idiotic, its a drug that slowly makes you dependent, then sick and very often it kills you. It makes you smell like shit, rots your teeth and gives you yellow fingers. Causes impotence, stunts your growth fucks up your stamina, etc...The illness related with smoking are some of the most fucked up things there are.

I smoked for a few years and by the end I was smoking 3 packs a day (yes you CAN smoke 3 packs a day IF you train smoke (lighting your next cigarette with the but of the last one)) I did it because of peer pressure and because my mom had smoked all her life and I actually liked the smell. I kicked it a few times but then relapsed, at the peak I was getting woken up by the addiction, for my mid sleep cig. that's when I stopped for good and have been smoke free for 12 years (aprox) Thankyou chessus!

What gets me is this IT IS A FUCKING DRUG just as coffee, alcohol, pot, speed, ecstasy or meth. BUT it is legally sold and socially acceptable so I'm supposed to put up with some idiot smoking next to me "because he has the right to". It is obviously a strong industry capable of lobbying world wide.

IF I sold suicide pills 15 usd a pack I would be a criminal, If I sold meth 15 bucks a pop I would be a criminal, BUT sell cigarettes for 15 bucks... entrepreneur. and yet cigarettes are 15 bucks a pack suicide drugs that alter your mood, hinder your health and get you addicted.

In conclusion IF some one are weak or dumb enough to smoke then by all means s/he should kill him/herself, just please find a quicker way to do it because cancer and emphysema are very expensive and slow ways to die.

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

I hope I don't get pulled by the evil webs of peer pressure, though. If I crack (no pun intended), I know I'll be hooked real hard. Addictions hit me strong.

 

[Nemesiah]

I hope I don't get pulled by the evil webs of peer pressure, though. If I crack (no pun intended), I know I'll be hooked real hard. Addictions hit me strong.

It's very simple you see; all you have to do is whenever someone offers you a smoke you inhale deeply and go:

I DON'T SMOKE YOU FUCKING LOSER!

I promise they won't try it again.

Stay clean.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Or you could not be a dick and just say "Nah, I'm good."

 

[ImprobableJoe]

I started smoking because I'm a motherfucking badass. I stopped smoking because I'm a motherfucking badass. You're welcome to skip the expense of that whole in-between time. Lighters are pretty cool though.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

I started smoking because I'm a motherfucking badass. I stopped smoking because I'm a motherfucking badass. You're welcome to skip the expense of that whole in-between time. Lighters are pretty cool though.

There's nothing more fun than lighter tricks.
Carrying a lighter without any cigarettes is just useless though, and you look like a douchebag that just wants to flip around a lighter.

Me? Is there something wrong with cranking AC/DC driving down an Alabama Highway going 120 MPH with a light in my mouth? If face with the possibility of imminent demise, smoking cigarettes seems petty to the overall ending.

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Kurt Vonnegut once wrote:
"Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only twelve years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown & Williamson have promised to kill me.
But I am eighty-two. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats. The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."

I like to think that I share the writer's appeal to lacking a fuck about what people think about me and general lack of fuck about what tends to be small. Before I got injured, it was a running joke that I could probably run a Marathon with a Marlboro in my teeth.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Me? Is there something wrong with cranking AC/DC driving down an Alabama Highway going 120 MPH with a light in my mouth? If face with the possibility of imminent demise, smoking cigarettes seems petty to the overall ending.

That seems to me to speak more to the negatives of driving double the speed limit, rather than to the positives of smoking.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

Me? Is there something wrong with cranking AC/DC driving down an Alabama Highway going 120 MPH with a light in my mouth? If face with the possibility of imminent demise, smoking cigarettes seems petty to the overall ending.

That seems to me to speak more to the negatives of driving double the speed limit, rather than to the positives of smoking.

There's plenty of things I do/did for a living than what I did in High School. And besides, I won't have the benefit of seeing a penny of that $400,000 when I die - and I'm pretty sure on that insurance paperwork it's still going to Doctors Without Boarders, so nothing that bad.

 

[Gnug215]

Hytegia, there is really no way around this, but your excuses sound like an attempt to alleviate the cognitive dissonance in your head regarding this topic.

You're clearly biased in this instance, and not applying the same vigorous standards of reason to this as you are with science.

You know full that smoking is very unhealthy, and if it were invented today it would be banned alongside other dangerous substances.

And no, there is nothing cool about smoking. Bogart and the Malboro Man are long dead. Today you just have a lit phallus in your mouth.

You have an addiction which you really enjoy it, and that's all there is. The fact that you like it and you're addicted is all there is, and all that matters. Everything else is excuses and desperate justification.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

I'm an addict, yes. But I don't have a problem.
I pay my bills, I make my meals. I function.
They keep me awake long hours. They kill time. It's not cocaine - it's around a mg of nicotine.

I'm nowhere near breathing away two packs a day, and atop the fact that I'm such a cheap bastard that I'd never humor that idea myself anyways.

 

[BrainBlow]

In conclusion IF some one are weak or dumb enough to smoke then by all means s/he should kill him/herself, just please find a quicker way to do it because cancer and emphysema are very expensive and slow ways to die.

My best friend recently started to smoke due to intense stress and depression after the Utà¸ya massacre.
As he explains to me, it was either that or prescription pills.
I'm so happy there are people like you with such nice and nuanced views. :facepalm:

 

[sgrunterundt]

In conclusion IF some one are weak or dumb enough to smoke then by all means s/he should kill him/herself, just please find a quicker way to do it because cancer and emphysema are very expensive and slow ways to die.

My best friend recently started to smoke due to intense stress and depression after the Utà¸ya massacre.
As he explains to me, it was either that or prescription pills.
I'm so happy there are people like you with such nice and nuanced views. :facepalm:

I'd take the prescription pills.

 

[nudger1964]

reading threads like this make me almost wish i still smoked. Anything not to turn into a self righteous, obnoxious holier than thou non smoker that dosnt seem to realise its none of their frigging business what other people choose to do

 

[australopithecus]

reading threads like this make me almost wish i still smoked. Anything not to turn into a self righteous, obnoxious holier than thou non smoker that dosnt seem to realise its none of their frigging business what other people choose to do

Does that extend to everything people choose to do, or just things that are legal?

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

reading threads like this make me almost wish i still smoked. Anything not to turn into a self righteous, obnoxious holier than thou non smoker that dosnt seem to realise its none of their frigging business what other people choose to do

I won't even answer this obvious insult to almost all of us who've posted on this thread.

Go ahead. Go kill yourself slowly. I don't care if you die from cancer and apparently you don't want anyone in your life to care either.

 

[Gnug215]

reading threads like this make me almost wish i still smoked. Anything not to turn into a self righteous, obnoxious holier than thou non smoker that dosnt seem to realise its none of their frigging business what other people choose to do

Well, since we're on insulting generalizations...

How is it that smokers usually think that non-smokers are just out to get them, and seemingly REALLY really interested in the health of the smoker? Instead of realizing that being "smoked on" is bloody nasty and disgusting?

How is it that smokers usually whine about wanting to be allowed to do what they want, when CLEARLY you're not allowed to do whatever you want in society? Instead of realizing that they're just up in arms because it's their own little vice that happens to be under attack.

How is it that smokers try so hard to rationalize away the dangers and disadvantages of smoking all the time, when it so obviously is just a pointless, useless bad habbit that essentially kills you slowly? A useless habbit that in most cases began as the result of peer-pressure and some warped desire to be cool like the other cool, smoking kids.

How is it that smokers don't give a %&/#@! rats ass about non-smokers when smoking around them? (And no, I'm not just concerned about my health here. Having to breathe and smell smoke is exceedingly uncomfortable.)

How is it that smokers don't realize that the point above is the issue at hand, and not that the non-smoker supposedly has some deep, unexplained desire to meddle in other people's business?

How is it that smokers always go into paranoid defensive mode when having pointed the above things out? Yelling stuff like "persecution!" and, yeah, "holier than thou!" and the like.

 

[tuxbox]

In conclusion IF some one are weak or dumb enough to smoke then by all means s/he should kill him/herself, just please find a quicker way to do it because cancer and emphysema are very expensive and slow ways to die.

My great uncle smoked 3 packs a day, for over 60 years and died at age 82. The fact is this, most smokers will not get cancer of any kind. Most will probably die from heart disease. That said, who gives a crap what people do as long as it does not directly harm someone else.

 

[CosmicJoghurt]

In conclusion IF some one are weak or dumb enough to smoke then by all means s/he should kill him/herself, just please find a quicker way to do it because cancer and emphysema are very expensive and slow ways to die.

My great uncle smoked 3 packs a day, for over 60 years and died at age 82. The fact is this, most smokers will not get cancer of any kind. Most will probably die from heart disease. That said, who gives a crap what people do as long as it does not directly harm someone else.

I care what the heck my friends do.

 

[tuxbox]

I care what the heck my friends do.

Showing concern for the people you care about is one thing, but most of Nemesiah's post that I have read are just plain rude with a strong hint of asshattery. The longevity of a life long smoker is 64, but that is just statistics. Like I posted earlier my great uncle died at 82.