attitudes toward smoking

[Shazaam]

smoking aint for me, but I do get why people do it:

If you are already naturally good looking, it does make you look cool, despite the 'after school messages' told in high school. It's just plain erotic.

"Two narcissistic straight guys with their shirts off discussing philosophy and sharing a smoke." Innately homoerotic without being 'gay' and losing one sense's of masculinity.

Oh and it is relaxing. cool, sexy, erotic, relaxing.

As for other people being offended by the smell, I think this all just depends on the brand of cigs. Some I actually like, I like to inhale the fumes while other people smoke but others are just gag-worthy nasty.

[Morcheeba]

How about we call them the Barely Legal Little Leaguers? I would include a free copy of our Super Sluts Slurping Loads DVD for every parent that attends the game. The DVD features over 3 hours of sluts with hilarious outtakes and alternate endings. I could even have a few of our stars come out and mud wrestle during the 7th inning stretch. I think it could pull in a lot more of an audience for your little league.

HAHAHAHA

[Absurd]

I started to look cool and continued for the taste/feeling; it eventually became a way to clear my mind of withdrawal symptoms so it is also when I do my best thinking...
I like to smoke when I wake up, after eating, and after I ejaculate

Haha! Yeah, same with me. Started to smoke when 12, though.

[717495]

You can come too, but I'm not sure you'd feel safe.

Tempting, but my Socionics senses tell me that I should avoid Beta circles.

[Absurd]

Tempting, but my Socionics senses tell me that I should avoid Beta circles.

You don't like to be tickled ?

[717495]

I like being tickled. However, that I think is the problem.

[Absurd]

It's all in your head.

[Blaze]

i smoked for 15 years. newports. loved the "newport blast". lol. i really miss it. but i don't wanna die from lung cancer. i now have 15 years clean from smoking. when i grow old, i'm going to start again. then i won't care.

[strrrng]

lol spliffs you must come to richmond

[ArchonAlarion]

I binge smoke on the weekends.

Like right now.

[Absurd]

I would never date let alone kiss a smoker I don't know why people do it it's expensive, harmful to themselves and others and makes you reek.

[misutii]

I love smoking. I'm pretty sure I'm deeply addicted, however, I enjoy it so much that I've never even entertained the notion of quitting and so am utterly at a loss as to what the actual withdrawal symptoms may be. I plan to smoke religiously for at least the next decade, though really I cannot imagine life without cigarettes, or well I could but it just seems like life now, only with a depressing lack of something and so excessively more tedious.

Why Smoke?
-Smoking provides me with an efficient means of keeping track of time (I will naturally grab for a cigarette instinctively every 2 hours or so. Though more often if I'm around chainsmokers.
-It also is a reliable and comforting semi-hobby of sorts. Time lost in transit waiting for things becomes less oppressive with a smoke to lend a breath.
-Unwanted social interactions can easily be avoided by using the excuse, "I'll be right back I'm just going to go out for a smoke."
-Social interactions that normally would be awkward also become much less so when both parties are smoking.
-As a psychological self-reward mechanism when I need to get things done; i.e. After I finish filling in this annoying form I can finally have a smoke and a few moment's peace.
-Ritually, I celebrate the completion/end of anything even remotely significant with a smoke. Meals, exercise, work, cleaning, showers, brushing my teeth, enjoyable thoughts etc.

Downsides? Money. Bloody government taxes it to hell. Smoking is my second largest monthly expense, not far from rent. The best way to eliminate this expense would be for me to grow my own tobacco.

I'm relatively polite about this habit. I don't blow smoke at children and if I'm smoking and there's a non-smoker guest over I will offer to open a window and/or pivot a fan in such a way that air circulation around them is as favourable as can be. That being said I reject obliging to new age municipal laws that attempt to order me to smoke as far away from a building as possible. I'm fine with taking it outside but "just outside" - not outside and around the corner. Any damage this insolence on my part causes is automatically trumped by the damage done to young children's lungs by automobile pollution (i.e. asthma) so health nazis can count the countless cigarette butts I've strewn around doorways, cry me a river and drown in it.

Smoking is awesome. Wanting to live forever is annoying.

[Blaze]

Smoking is awesome. Wanting to live forever is annoying.

smoking is awesome. but it's not the living forever, it's the horror of lung cancer.

i've noticed IEI's pretty much are slaves to smoking....i've seen chronic smoking in so many. what's up w that/

[inumbra]

I don't smoke. I believe the main reason is that I never started smoking and as such never became addicted. I'm sure if I was addicted I would have a very difficult time getting unaddicted so I'm really glad that there wasn't some moment as a child where I decided to try out smoking. I've generally never wanted to start smoking because I don't want to have to deal with the consequences. But unfortunately there are plenty of addictions to have within even my own brain chemistry... so... even though I'm not addicted to something obvious like smoking, I have plenty of hidden addictions and they're just as difficult to get rid of and probably aren't all that different than smoking. Chemical addiction is chemical addiction no matter what started it.

[Nexus]

if you want to avoid lung cancer and emphysema I would highly encourage e-cigarettes (they taste better too)

[misutii]

smoking is awesome. but it's not the living forever, it's the horror of lung cancer.

i've noticed IEI's pretty much are slaves to smoking....i've seen chronic smoking in so many. what's up w that/

I'm only 25, my grandfather quit when he was 34 and he is the healthiest old (must be around 80 now) person I know. Of course who knows what sorts of mutant cancers my generation is going to develop by the time I'm over 60

[strrrng]

smoking is awesome. but it's not the living forever, it's the horror of lung cancer.

The horror of lung cancer is no more terrifying than the image of dying in a hospital.

i've noticed IEI's pretty much are slaves to smoking....i've seen chronic smoking in so many. what's up w that/

Not sure. The only IEI I've witnessed this in, is myself. If I have smokes around, I drift off with one and pass the time. But that's why walking is good.

[crazedrat]

i had to stop smoking because i am diseased. but when i was aloud to smoke, i smoked because i liked to feel buzzed. then i kept smoking because i couldn't stop. pretty simple really.

[Morcheeba]

[QUOTE=strrrng;593560]The horror of lung cancer is no more terrifying than the image of dying in a hospital.



My thoughts exactly; I would hate to die comfortably in a hospital bed, to me that would be the worst way to go out, could be something an valuer would like though.

[Gilly]

Smoking makes you cool. Trust me, I know.

[strrrng]

[Gilly]

[strrrng]

sigh. It's too early to wax elitist.

[Gilly]

******, I sleep in a suit.

[Nexus]

[Blaze]

I'm only 25, my grandfather quit when he was 34 and he is the healthiest old (must be around 80 now) person I know. Of course who knows what sorts of mutant cancers my generation is going to develop by the time I'm over 60

i know. my aunt, she's like 78 and still smokes. goes outside to do so though, where she used to smoke inside years ago. she doesn't look like she's sick. lol. maybe IEI's are immune?