The anti-smoking self righteous

[catswiththumbs]

I know smoking is unhealthy.
I quit for eight years - started back; who knows why?
I exercise every day, don't smoke in the house or inside anywhere.

However . . .

It is legal. I can not get pulled over for "DWS" - driving while smoking.
Safer than crack - there are no little hoodlum gangs that I know of blasting away at each other over disputed cigarette territory.
A handy filler when the conversation dies - Cigarette? Why yes, thank you!

I was walking the other day, enjoying a solitary smoke; a busy body walks by and squawks - You know, that's bad for you.

I replied, with my best just-out-of-the-loony-bin look - Yes, as is pestering strangers about their bad habits.

[LC EFA]

I pretty much have a cigarette hanging outta my lip whenever I'm not sleeping.

I know it's unhealthy and will lead to an early death.

Care factor is very very low, and I can afford the required treatments.

Tell me that my smoking is bad and I'll treat you like a communist.

Take my cigarettes away and... well lets just say that would be a very bad idea.

[JohnnyReb]

I know smoking is unhealthy.
I quit for eight years - started back; who knows why?
I exercise every day, don't smoke in the house or inside anywhere.

However . . .

It is legal. I can not get pulled over for "DWS" - driving while smoking.
Safer than crack - there are no little hoodlum gangs that I know of blasting away at each other over disputed cigarette territory.
A handy filler when the conversation dies - Cigarette? Why yes, thank you!

I was walking the other day, enjoying a solitary smoke; a busy body walks by and squawks - You know, that's bad for you.

I replied, with my best just-out-of-the-loony-bin look - Yes, as is pestering strangers about their bad habits.

Don't you just love 'em.

25 years ago, I was in the mountains doing some whitewater. I was at this open air building waiting on a friend to get something. I was at an outside service window of the building smoking and the wind was blowing my smoke away from the window. Teenage kid inside with red eyeballs and dilated pupils the size of pennies goes (cough, cough, cough), "Sir, do mind not smoking. Some of us are concerned about our health." I just about died laughing. I told him he sure didn't seem to be worried to much about his health with that wild shit he had been smoking the night before. He didn't seem to like my statement....

[JohnnyReb]

I pretty much have a cigarette hanging outta my lip whenever I'm not sleeping.

I know it's unhealthy and will lead to an early death.

Care factor is very very low, and I can afford the required treatments.

Tell me that my smoking is bad and I'll treat you like a communist.

Take my cigarettes away and... well lets just say that would be a very bad idea.

Me and you buddy, me and you...

A fellow I was working for said something about me being a chain smoker. Crazy fellow working for me came to my defense. He said, "He's not a chain smoker....he throws the last one away before lighting the next one....he likes lighting cigarettes."

Back when I SCUBA dived they wondered how I could stay down so long without a cigarette. They used to accuse me of putting smoke in my dive tanks.

[Ballygrl]

Don't you just love 'em.

25 years ago, I was in the mountains doing some whitewater. I was at this open air building waiting on a friend to get something. I was at an outside service window of the building smoking and the wind was blowing my smoke away from the window. Teenage kid inside with red eyeballs and dilated pupils the size of pennies goes (cough, cough, cough), "Sir, do mind not smoking. Some of us are concerned about our health." I just about died laughing. I told him he sure didn't seem to be worried to much about his health with that wild shit he had been smoking the night before. He didn't seem to like my statement....

OMG! we had something similar happen years ago, we went to NYC to see a Broadway show and we decided to go outside for a cigarette before the show started, we're in freaking NYC, the City where you smell nothing but bus fumes, so the smokers are outside and this bitch dressed in a skirt and blazer with white sneakers on, she comes walking by and says "oh great now I have to inhale smoke from the smokers" she said this as a bus came zooming by with all black fumes coming out of the exhaust, I'm like "you've got to be kidding, do you not see the fumes coming out of the bus yet you're worried about the smoke from the smokers"?

[Eupher]

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

ex-smoker of >10 years

Can't imagine bossing around smokers.


If someone gives you shit about 2nd hand smoke flick your lighter and tell them it's healthier than 1st-hand flames.

[Eupher]

ex-smoker of >10 years

Can't imagine bossing around smokers.


If someone gives you shit about 2nd hand smoke flick your lighter and tell them it's healthier than 1st-hand flames.

Well, it's been 31 years for me and while I hate tobacco smoke with a passion, I don't boss smokers around either. I vote with my feet.

[JohnnyReb]

Well, it's been 31 years for me and while I hate tobacco smoke with a passion, I don't boss smokers around either. I vote with my feet.

My wife can't stand the smoke either....have you ever noticed that it doesn't matter where the non-smoker sits/stands/moves to that the smoke follows them. They attract smoke like a magnet.

[Wayne]

  I quit a few years ago . It is hard not to be "preachee" about it and I fail . Better than being a reformed Rabbi *** A Nazi.

[NHSparky]

Quit 14 years ago.  I still go to Vegas where all my shit smells like smoke inside of 10 seconds.

I can not get pulled over for "DWS" - driving while smoking.

Actually, in some places, you CAN--especially if there are kids in the car.  I wish I was kidding.

[catswiththumbs]

I'm going to investigate those smokeless, water vapor e-cigs - might be a feasible way to get off'em again.

I quit cold turkey the first time - no real problems - stayed smoke free for eight years (I was running 5 miles a day then, however).

I'll get it done.

[Revolution]

You're my new favorite Probie, Cats. This thread is all kinds of truth. All kinds of awesome.

[Ballygrl]

I'm going to investigate those smokeless, water vapor e-cigs - might be a feasible way to get off'em again.

I quit cold turkey the first time - no real problems - stayed smoke free for eight years (I was running 5 miles a day then, however).

I'll get it done.

I was looking into it too, the only thing I didn't like was the lack of research as far as long-term effects go.

[Karin]

I'm a smoker, too, but only in private.  Only in my house or car (no kids in either place).  Don't go out to bars and hang around on the street outside having a smoke, because my mom would come back to haunt me right there and then. 

Ballygirl, I wouldn't be concerned the long-term effects of e-cigs.  A little flavor, water, and glycerin.  I think it's  big tobacco scare-mongering, and also politicians drooling over tax revenues (esp in NY.) 

I have a couple of e-cigs.  One of them is better than the other, (I found the Blue to be useless).  They were helpful in cutting back in half, with discipline.  (Put that down and pick the other one up!)  A lot of people have gone to 100% vaping.  I wasn't able to.  I actually like the flavor better than regular cigs (you can get whiskey-flavored "juice," mmmmmm). 

Here's a forum devoted to it, if interested:  E-Cigarette Forum

[thelaughingman]

I'm not a smoker.  I hate being around smokers (asthma and allergies).  However, I will never, ever support using the government to punish smokers.  Back when I worked in C-stores, packs were less than $2 here.  Today it seems they're closing in on $5.  It's ridiculous.  And it's all because of the government.  People think tobacco companies are making obscene profits.  No, they're not.  The government is because of tobacco taxes.

[thelaughingman]

I'm going to investigate those smokeless, water vapor e-cigs - might be a feasible way to get off'em again.

I think I've read that people who've tried them say they taste like crap.  (Not literally, to my knowledge.)

[Celtic Rose]

The only smoker I give a hard time to is my daddy    And, I actually secretly like the smell of his cigarettes.

[TexasCop]

Smoking in public is rude.  I don't want to inhale your smoke.  You also stink.  I hate standing behind you at 7-11 because you smell like a wet ashtray. 

[Attero Dominatus]

I am no fan of smoking, but I am even less of a fan of government deciding who can smoke where. Let the property owners decide if people can smoke on their premises or not.

[Evil_Conservative]

Smoking in public is rude.  I don't want to inhale your smoke.  You also stink.  I hate standing behind you at 7-11 because you smell like a wet ashtray. 

H5!

The only time I will EVER say anything is if there are smoker's blowing smoke right at my daughter/her stroller.  I give them a nasty look and a simple, "excuse you".  You're free to smoke, just move away from areas children are playing.  You know, for example, STOP SMOKING IN THE ****ING PARK.

[TexasCop]

Smoking in our city parks and all city facilities is illegal and we enforce it religiously.  I also freely pass out littering citations to every smoker who throws their butts out the windows of their cars.  I find it disgusting.

[thundley4]

Illinois is considering exempting casinos from the smoking ban because of lost revenue.  ****ing hypocrites claimed it was for health reasons, then those reasons still exist.

[Evil_Conservative]

Smoking in our city parks and all city facilities is illegal and we enforce it religiously.  I also freely pass out littering citations to every smoker who throws their butts out the windows of their cars.  I find it disgusting.

I'm pretty sure it's illegal here too, but it's not like anyone follows the rules.  There was a parent with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth while pushing his child in the swing.

[Duke Nukum]

I'm going to investigate those smokeless, water vapor e-cigs - might be a feasible way to get off'em again.

I quit cold turkey the first time - no real problems - stayed smoke free for eight years (I was running 5 miles a day then, however).

I'll get it done.

Vicki McKenna quit smoking with that technology.  A WI company is said to make the best juice:

http://www.johnsoncreeksmokejuice.com/