How many of you are smokers?
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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.
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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!
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!
I quit smoking cigarettes in the year 2000 and have been quit since and never looked back. And i smoked for about 15 years prior to that. I actually don't like the smell of tobacco anymore. Now, if i can only quit food. lol
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.
It would never happen. Tobacco is a major revenue generator for the government. Same as alcohol
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.
Some condos and apartment buildings are also going smokefree. Smoking is also the cause of many fires in condos and apartments.
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.
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.
I remember when they used to let u smoke in doors.. everywhere.. but only certain countries allow that now.
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.)
