My fiancee' and I are those people. I smoked my first two years of college, then got a girlfriend (the infamous shanna! ) who told me to stop or she'd leave and I didn't pick up one more cigarrette for four years. Then after that one, I didn't pick up another one until I moved to Houston.
Never will smoke cigarrettes. Have smoked a cigar on occasion, like at a club or a party. Only a once-and awhile thing; I couldn't imagine actually smoking packs of stuff a day.
Issues of the day: -How do you smoke cigars if allergic to nicotine? Cigars have much more nicotine than cigarettes. -Can't get the smell of smoke out of your hair after showering THREE times? Try using shampoo for cryin' out loud. -Go to someone's house and complain about the smell? Rude. -Healthcare costs are pure propaganda to bilk money through taxes and settlements. Get lung cancer and you'll save the system 30 years of long term health care costs (net savings!) by dying within a year. -Don't like someone smoking in your car? By all means tell them to put the freaking thing out, or better yet, not to light it up. In her book, "In Defense of Naps, Martinis, Profanity, and Other Indulgences," Barbara Holland writes about cigarettes and why smokers smoke: Well, it’s time someone explained. No, we weren’t attempting suicide, or deliberately trying to stunt our unborn children or poison the bystanders. We did it because it was fun. It felt good. It felt good like scratching an itch, or stretching, or biting a grain of caviar, or having your back rubbed, or taking off tight shoes. There, I said it. Cigarettes tasted good. In his book, "Cigarettes are Sublime," Richard Klein sees smoking as a metaphor: Smoking a cigarette may be compared to making a poem: inhaling the hot breath of inspiration, letting words on paper burn up in the visible air of a muted elocution, exhaling swirling figures of desire, conducting with gestures and modulating in smoke a lyric conversation overheard. And Richard Selzer, the Yale physician-writer, explains in his essay, "Smoking," what he finds so beautiful, so essential about the act: … Aah … and out it comes, now a slow-blown wisp, now a fat cloud. It rises above the face. That which was a moment before deep within pours to the out-of-doors, the soul come punctually visible. See it diffuse, coiling fainter and fainter into the general atmos-phere. Here is proof—one needs no more—you exist, are here, because smoke, that gaseous testimony, is there.
I totally smoke Cowboy Killers. Nothing else is really strong enough or as readily available as them Reds. Though I smoke pretty heavily, I will never ever touch a menthol again. Those things are disgusting.
I'm thinking you have some internal conflict that is unresolved; a guilt maybe, that is making you feel unworthy so are choosing smoking as your self-destrctive outlet, to punish yourself for not living up to your own expectations. Maybe you should just deal with the real issue, do the best you do and forgive yourself. Life is too short as it is man, you gotta find some peace.
Link me up Scotty. But I was just razzing you. If you'll recall I have stated publicly that getting hit by a bus at about age 75 is the best thing that can happen to you. Golden Years! yea there great. The only thing golden about your golden years is your Depends when you take another incontinent piss on yourself. And I can't smell you from here so I have no problems with it.
Ok I'll post the link, but don't say anything about Fatty. He's already been through so much with this subject.....I think he's made his points. Read the whole thing! Pugs
I have smoked occasionally but that was back in '98. Haven't touched a cigarette since then and don't plan to. Just too many health problems and the smell associated with it makes it not worth it to me plus the cost.
They don't care because they are flat out ignorant. Smoking dulls the senses so they have no idea how much they reek. A friend of mine quit smoking about 3 years ago and within a few weeks of quiting she could stand living in her own house because her senses came back and couldn't stand the smell. She had to have the whole place renovated.
Well I aint judging anyone on this one. Othen than eating establishments it doesn't bother me at all.
There is no ignorance. It is flat out laughable how much it REEKS! I grew up in a smoking household. Never bothered me one bit. I went over to other houses. Mine smelled just like everyone else's. I guess over the past three decades, people have developed super smell sensors.
I modify my stance to it is partially ignorance and mostly being inconsiderate of others. I agree that in how bad it reeks. Consider yourself fortunate that you are not bothered by cigarette smoking. I'm not so lucky. I become nauscous and get headaches when exposed to it for extended periods of time. People have not developed super smell sensors over the last 3 decades. They simply become much-less tolerant of smokers due to increased knowledge of harmful side-effects.
i don't care much for smoking, never have smoked a cigarette - though i like having a rare cigar - usually if i'm in a big poker tourney or somethin.
Who would have guessed someone who grew up in a smoking household has difficulty distinguishing smells??
