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How many of you are smokers?

Do you smoke?

  • Yes, I smoke cigarettes

    Votes: 16 18.4%
  • Yes, but not cancer sticks

    Votes: 7 8.0%
  • No, I do not smoke

    Votes: 65 74.7%

  • Total voters
    87

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Not to date myself but I grew up in an era wherein smoking was very much part of night life and night club and bar culture. There wasn't a place where you couldn't smoke.

Nowadays I was basically made to feel like some moron with no self control if I smoked. There were a host of other factors that pushed me to stop smoking but make a long story short I just did it. No aids required the last time I did it... All other attempts I tried to use aids like Nicorette, etc... Pure mind power.

Smokers are now ostracized.

I must admit though it did help me think and focus and sometimes when I'm especially drunk I want to smoke too... But self control friends.
My uncle told me that recruits for the WW2 were given a Zippo lighter and a pack of cigarette as part of their kit. Now someone tell me the tobacco companies were just being generous. Deadly marketing.
 

Titalian

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For those of you interested. Great movie good actors and true story on Tobacco Companies The Insider !

 
In my Drugs and Behaviour class they taught us that it takes the average smoker nine tries to successfully quit. Apparently it is more addictive than drugs, except maybe heroine.

Like most kids from my era I tried smoking, however, I hated it and quit shortly thereafter. Despite this, for many years after I'd crave a cigarette when heavily drinking and to this day, crave a drag off a cig. when plastered. Anything more than that and I'll probably pass out from the headrush or get violently ill.

My mother smokes and has for too many moons to count, even though she lost her common law husband to COPD two February's ago. I wish I could get her to quit but she says it's too hard.

Kudos to anyone able to quit!
 

Titalian

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It's astounding that the government is hooked on selling a product that kills its citizens because
of the tax revenue it takes in.

How can they argue anything on issues of morality?
Because smoking is legalized. Its time to legalize our situation!!!
 

simon482

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i got a vape. yes it has nicotine and it's probably not that healthy but it is better than cigarettes and all you exhale is a water vapour. i picked it up a little over 2months ago and was a pack and a half for 20+ years smoker. stopped that day and haven't given a fuck since. legal to puff on them inside as well and it smells like whatever flavour you got, right now i am using peach and watermelon flavour.
 

Yoga Face

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i quit by using electronic cigs

i gradually reduced the nicotine to a very low level

now i can goes days without any nicotine
 

thirdcup

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SkyRider

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One of the biggest social changes in my lifetime is the elimination of smoking in the workplace and in almost all public places.

Unfortunately, some people switched to "smokeless tobacco" and are now dead or dying from oral cancer.
 

bazokajoe

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One of the biggest social changes in my lifetime is the elimination of smoking in the workplace and in almost all public places.

Unfortunately, some people switched to "smokeless tobacco" and are now dead or dying from oral cancer.

The only good thing governments have done is ban smoking in public places and workplaces.
Nice to see most hotels are going with smoke free properties.
 

Viggo Rasmussen

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Prostitution saves the government millions of dollars, creates thousands of jobs and brings in millions of tourist dollars and has zero fatalities.
I can't see the upside of cigarettes at all, the same jobs could easily shift to a healthier product. I see them as another tax on the poor.





And feeble minded.
 

thirdcup

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It would never happen. Tobacco is a major revenue generator for the government. Same as alcohol
This raises the question, if the the gov't makes money from tobacco, do they make more or less than it costs to give medical care to the smokers?
Ditto the drinkers.
 

SkyRider

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This raises the question, if the the gov't makes money from tobacco, do they make more or less than it costs to give medical care to the smokers?
Ditto the drinkers.
We will probably never know the exact answer but, apparently, pension funds love smokers before they rarely live long enough to collect their full pension.

Latest rumor is that Peter MacKay will table a bill to make the sale of cigs still legal but the purchase of cigs will be a criminal offense. This way Peter can say he is protecting all the Korean mom and pop convenience stores as the bill will only punish the purchasers and not the sellers. (Just kidding, I think.)
 
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