Poll: Smoking

[DJShire]

I love it when people (especially my mum) try and tell me that I should quit and how bad it is for me and blahdy blahdy blah, but does everyone think that I don't know the risks? I'll fucking quit when I damn well please to, not because of what amounts to familial and/or peer pressure.

 

[Johnny Xtreme]

I have never met a smoker who walked up to a person and blew smoke in their face. Also most places don't allow for smoking anymore, they have places set up near the streets to promote no smoking policies on the premises of their buildings. My advice, quit taking deep breathes on the icy street corners where smokers are.

 

[atv_chic_18]

No. I have my reasons for this. I don't mind others smoking. That's their choice. Smoking however is not for me. My reasons are simply just my reasons. Never tried it, and don't plan on it.

 

[GaD]

my two best mates smoke and i dont but i end up smoking when iv had to much to drink

so other than that no and i plan to never do it sober

 

[Noamuth]

The only time I get annoyed at smokers is with the younger ones, the 12, 13 year olds I used to see all the time at highschool, who do it just to be cool. They piss me off.

Even now, I don't see how people could start smoking knowing what it does to you.. The only reason I can think of that makes some sort of sense is stress relief.

But that aside, my best friend is a smoker, same with a lot of my family, and while I do worry about them, I don't hold it against them. Same with most other smokers (except the ones I mentioned before). As long as they are considerate, and we considerate to them, it doesn't bother me.

I just worry a little.

 

[the captain]

I'm a social smoker. I only smoke when I drink, and I only drink when I'm surrounded by stupid fucking people

I think I do it because I am subconsciously trying to kill myself to get away from those people more quickly. Not to mention the fact that cigarettes make me looks 27% cooler. 33% if it's a cigar.

 

[thefrizzlefry]

I've smoked on off for a year or two now.

 

[Raven's Nest]

It's a choice at the end of the day. Forget the nastiness of unwanted second hand smoke for a second and consider this...

Whether or not the current smoking ban in most countries is successful or not has been questioned recently. But the real question I pose to you is this...

How many more of our liberties are going to be stripped from us in the coming years?

In regards to the smoking ban...

In the UK you can smoke pretty much anywhere except inside or directly outside any public building/office/workplace. I visited California a few years ago and was promptly told off by anyone who saw me smoking on the street. I'm sorry but who the fuck was I harming while smoking alone in the middle of an empty street?

If they banned alcohol (again) in bars and clubs there would be riots! But you can argue alcohol is just as bad if not worse than smoking (short-term) especially when abused 'a la binge drinking'.

Cheers for the good luck comments, I do genuinely feel like I will never smoke again simply because I no longer wish to smoke. But a time will come when smoking and alcohol will both be prohibited anywhere... and not everyone will choose to give up so easily. Perhaps I should have just started a new thread for this but on the grounds that a smoking one is right here anyway...

 

[InifniteWit]

Smoke what?

 

[3rd rung]

not to show my hand but smoke what if that is not obvious what I an talking about becuase one not the other

 

[GreyMorality]

I dont smoke to expensive and not worth the damages it will cause.

 

[Ancientgamer]

My grandfather had his vocal chords removed a few years ago because he started smoking when he was 12. He now breaths through a hole in his neck and talks with a mechanical box.

No thank you.

 

[prefectimo]

I smoked occasionally and I enjoyed it, it did not get rid of my stress or any of that, I did it because I liked the taste. Which is why I used to smoke about 25 a day and then quit without any need for more. Now that I don't smoke often I make a habit of not pointing out all the illnesses related to smoking because they already know what it does and don't need you pointing it out constantly, just like how I never walk up to people with obesity and explain to them the details of how they are destroying their body and how they will suffer an awful death but that's just my way I guess.

One thing I find interesting is that for some reason it is all right to insult smokers then when the same people see an obese person they with not even try to point out how they are killing themselves, hypocrites perhaps? It is also now classed as a disease, please correct me if I am wrong, a disease that only effects countries with fast food mind you.

So to answer the poll: "sometimes".

 

[edinflames]

Yeah i'm a smoker. My advice is don't start young (i.e when you're 15), because by the time you get tired and frustrated with the whole experience (when you're 20/21/22), and you come to the realisation that people weren't lying when they told you it was hard to quit, you are in a period of your life where you are frequently socialising and stressing over of work/education.

Tell that to a 14 year old, kids that age simply can't comprehend things like that, the hardwiring to realise that isn't developed yet. That's why it saddens me so much to see her smoke.

I could tell her about my friend with Emphysema...but you're right, it sucks but at that age I didn't listen either and I didn't care about health enough to even consider the long term.

To late I started when I was fourteen. I smoke 5 or 6 a day now I'm sixteen. I know I'll regret it later but if its supposed to happen and its a lesson I need to learn then oh well my fault.

Life is one big lesson, only there's no test at the end, just don't let the anti-smoking lobby convince you that you're an inferior being because you partake in the most addictive substance known to man.

 

[bjj hero]

Ive got better things to spend my money on, never mind what it would do to my cardio.

 

[Audemas]

What makes me laugh is we know smoking is bad. We KNOW this, it is a fact, yet people continue to do so but I suppose Darwin was right about the whole "survival of the fittest" thing. Smoking is a drain on both your health and wallet. Depending on how often you smoke, you can waste a large amount of money on smoking. (My Mom used to smoke and to help get her to quit, my Dad and I did some math and we found out she was wasting around $250-$270 dollars a year but this was back in like 2000 so it's probably higher now)

 

[Lucane]

No cuase I Medically can't but I can be around it in moderation but i don't mind people who do or shun(sp?... heck I know I didn't spell that that right.) them either.

 

[Bobzer77]

The truth about smoking is that it improves chance of cancer, as does anything else. The single most cause of cancer is electrical radiation. Cereals, electricity, red bull. They all cause cancer. You just need to weigh the consequences with the benefits.

So the benefits of smoking are?

(apart from smelling horrible, getting addicted to something, watching your health slowly deteriorate and dying at 60? )

 

[MelziGurl]

I started smoking when I was 14 and gave it up when I was 20/21. My inspiration for that was guilt when my mother found out and my boyfriend declaring he doesn't want to make out with an ash tray. I feel better for quitting though, I often crave them when I smell cigarettes. But after going so long without them, I don't want to go throwing that achievement away.

 

[DannyDamage]

Firstly, I smoke. I don't smoke that much and obviously have no problem with non-smokers EXCEPT in the following cases.

a) EX-smokers who think they're fan-fuckin-tastic because they've "beaten" their habit and you haven't.

Actually, if you enjoyed smoking occasionally before and you now can't have 1 smoke without flying off the handle and finishing the other 19 in a pack, you have NOT overcome your problem. It still controls you, deal with it and stop thinking you're better than people who choose to smoke.

b) People who treat smokers like dirt, just because they smoke.

There have been many occasions where I've been walking through town whilst smoking and complete strangers have given me and my cigarette the stink eye. These are people that don't know anything else about me and will happily judge me based on this one detail. There are plenty of bad people in the world that never smoked.

The second point fits into what I'm going to say now pretty well too.

I'm 25 and when I was young the attraction to smoking was that we were told so many times that we couldn't\shouldn't do it. An adult telling any young person (of any era) isn't going to go down well. Today however, is a different kettle of fish.

It's my opinion that young people today (mainly in The States tbh) are being told that smokers, not smok[ing] is the big nasty thing to look out for. Running along-side the relatively recent smoking ban over here, this HAS caused 'success' in some respects as I've noticed a few of you 'Young-yanks' (sorry for the shite name, I made it up just now), actually do see smoking as some vile, despicable act.

Though I appreciate the lack of anti-conformist-conformism (not smoking in a failed attempt at rebellion), I fear that a lot of people are going to grow up instantly looking down their noses at someone smoking and to eventually see smokers out-cast even more.

The fact that this has already happened to me on a few occasions especially annoys me when the general population (of most countries) not only approves, but whores to the high heavens, the consumption of alcohol. Something that doesn't need 50 years of B.S. research to try and prove if using it effects other people. Drunken bar fights and physical abuse towards men/women/children in the home are the two main examples I'd like to make before leaving it at that and noticing I've gone on for some time now.

Smoke/don't smoke because YOU want to, not because others tell you to/not to.