Cigarettes, cigars, TOBACCO...........ok?

i think some of you know, yes, i smoke, and i know its gross.

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they have federal bans against things like trans fat, pot, and you cant drink alcohol until a certain age. Yet your going to tell me that the government is allowing you to buy a known carcinogen and other poisons and you get to light it up with no problem? Not only do I think its completely disgusting, but I think it should be illegal along with the other drugs that the government has outlawed.

Oh.. by the way. The next time you see someone smoking, your insurance is going up. Hey, we've got to support the rising cost of medical bills somehow!

DEEEEEP Breath in of that second hand smoke.

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere!

I used to. I stopped because when I was playing Paintball I was having a hard time running from tree to tree.

It has been about 10 years now. I smoked for about 10 years prior to that.

I am an evil smoker ... damn smokers

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Ignorance is our most expensive commodity ...

Feel sorry for those that do smoke, unfortunately it is an addiction

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MommaDay1963

I am on again, off again. I could not care any less if you had a gun to my head what people think. The whole wide world can kiss my arse.

OOOO 5 to 3, smokers are winning! er, i mean losing....ummm i dont know....lol

I have been quit for 3 months now. I am working on getting chase to quit...if he just stopped lighting the dumpster on fire maybe we could make some progress.lol

Nope never smoked

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Sometimes I feel just like Sharpay from High School Musical....
"Don't you see that bigger is better and better is bigger. A little bit is never enough!!! No! No! No! I want it all!"




Some people choose to remain in the past with life, love and happiness; never really exploring the opportunity of a new day. To those I say: Build a bridge, Get over it, and Move on. A new life awaits you just around the bend....

Yes I am one of the bad people, could never kick the habit

Let me start by saying that I do have a cigar every now and then. If you're a smoker, light up, it doesn't bother me. As for second hand smoke, sorry I don't believe that bull. With all the chemical companies we are surrounded by,second hand smoke is the least of my worries. Don't get me started on global warming. If I had a choice to hang around smokers versus non smokers, I'll take the smokers any day. They're much more fun and down to earth. I know smoking is extremely bad for you, but I'm not about to criticize someone who wants to light up. I just find it troubling that society now looks down on smokers while shoving a guilt trip down their throats. In the mean time I'm supposed to be upset when some scumbag inmate doesn't get adequate medical treatment? I've got more important issues to think about.
Sorry I went off there a little.

If my insurance is going up, it's not because of smokers. It's all the people who use the emergency room for a primary care physician because they have no insurance. Can't say I blame them. How about the people who abuse the system. I've dealt with it many times,calling an ambulance for a nose bleed, sore foot, runny nose, stubbed toe, a ride to the mall and last but not least, the drunks use this one a lot, a warm meal. Trust me, smokers aren't the bad people the media portrays them to be. Let's not forget the toll the illegals take. The cause of insurance rates rising is much more complicated then a smoker being treated for the repercussions of smoking.

Insurance costs rise because of the amount hospitals and doctors charge. The reason for the rise is because of malpractice insurance. The reason for malpractice insurance just look around........

I quit smoking New Years Eve, two years ago. I've been healthier ever since and I don't stink anymore. lol

You are right erin once I quit I can smell a smoke miles away. It is a very awful smell that I did not realize until I quit. I dont know how non smokers can take it.

I used to smoke when I was a kid (13,14 may'be 15).

I don't smoke anymore, I watched too many old folks suffering from it to cure me of even wanting to light up again!

My husband smokes and it smells putrid, but atleast he goes outside of the house to do it!

yeah, I'm one of the few smokers left... I'll probably quit soon, though, because I have a feeling our office complex is going "smoke free" soon!!

Smoking is bad

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Quote:

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist."

I hope nobody minds me getting a bit wordy, here, on this subject.

I used to smoke three packs a day at work. At night I rolled my own. I also enjoyed Castella cigars, Turkish and Russian cigarettes, and I had a collection of twelve pipes. So, yes, I was a smoker.

In 1976 my parents told me about a TV program (In England) where an American surgeon had produced a documentary about his work on people with smoking-related illnesses. The description of what they saw was so gross that I decided to quit smoking. It was two years before I could say I did not want a cigarette.

In 1978 I came to America and soon joined the Moose Lodge (my wife's brother-in-law was the governor of the Lewes lodge). I went to my first dinner and dance, there, and when we left that night, I was driving home and suddenly felt very ill. My mouth was numb and I could not move my eyes. I didn't tell my wife because at that time she did not have a driver license. By time I drove the 14 miles home I felt a lot better.

I thought no more of the incident until the next dinner and dance, and the same thing happened, again. I then realized I had become allergic to the cigarette smoke. This forced me to drop out of the Moose.

When my sister-in-law and her husband came to our place for dinner, he would always light up a cigarette immediately afterward. I told him I had become allergic to the smoke and asked him if he would mind not smoking. He was miffed, to say the least, so he went home for his smoke. Needless to say, it put a stop to our social evenings.

One day, he also decided to quit smoking after his father died from emphysema. About two years later, he told me that he was sorry for the way he felt about me when I had asked hm to not smoke in my home. He said he thought I was one of those "self-righteous, reformed smokers," but now he was having the same problem when his friends came to his home and smoked. He told everyone who came to his home that they could not smoke and, thus, the cycle continued as his smoking friends began staying away.

As a former electrical contractor I had to work in people's homes. I liked to sit and chat with them, too, about other things. I was talking to a retired man about photography and he excitedly showed me his new camera. This man was on oxygen due to his years of smoking. As we were talking he just keeled over sideways on the sofa and lay there. I was shaken by this and looked at his wife who took it all in very calmly. She said, "This happens frequently. Even the oxygen sometimes isn't enough and he just passes out. He will be back in a few minutes and he won't even remember falling over." Sure enough, about two minutes later, he just sat up and resumed right where he left off.

I'm grateful I quit smoking when I did because if you are forced to quit due to damaged lungs, it's too late to recover. The best you can hope for is to live your days out with the help of an oxygen tank trailing around behind you. Your lifestyle beomes severely crippled. I know it's not easy to quit and it's when you are young and in good health, and you enjoy a smoke, that you see no real reason to stop the habit.

Many years ago I was a bricklayer. One bitterly cold winter morning, I was waiting for the labourers to mix up the mortar as I stood by a pile of bricks. I lit a cigarette. I was suffering from bronchitis on that day and I thought to myself, "These things are killing me." It was a new pack I had just opened but I stomped it into an ice puddle. I decided to quit. That was at 8 a.m. At 9 am. one of the labourers said he was going the to the store and asked if anyone wanted anything. I had to ask him to get me a pack of cigarettes.

One last thing: (I told you this would be wordy.) I watched my father-in-law dying from emphysema and that was a few years after he quit. It's a horrible way to die. A Readers Digest article, some years ago, said that nicotine is the most deadly alkaloid poison known to mankind. One teaspoon of pure nicotine will immediately stop the heart. Even if we don't care for ourselves, I think we owe it to our families to quit smoking.

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I agree with you, Curly, and although this may be going off subject, as a motorcycle rider I find it annoying when people blame helmetless riders for making health insurance rise. Yes, we know helmets may save lives and I'm not going to argue about that.

Some years ago I did some digging into some federal government statistics. The Center For Disease Control in Atlanta, showed that more sport-pickup truck drivers, age 25 and under, died from head-related injuries than ALL motorycle fatalities combined. Yet nobody mentions them when the accusations start flying that "irresponsible bikers" are the cause of rising insurance. I think it's because of the perception of the vulnerability of motorcycle riders that some people tend to label riders as being maniacs with a death wish. So if head injuries really are as big a problem as some say, then it's time to make drivers of sport pickups wear helmets. Odd, though, how the federal government can ignore its own statistics and put so much effort into forcing the individual states to adopt mandatory helmet laws.

It's all in the perception.