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Do you smoke?

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Barmy Army, May 18, 2007.

  1. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Nope. I'm allergic to a chemical used in most cigarette production, which helped reinforce smoking as a bad thing.
     
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    I don't. It's a scary thing, really.
     
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    I've smoked a couple but never bought a pack and I haven't touched one in a couple of years. Not intending to, either.
     
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    Death Rabbit Straight, no chaser Adored Veteran Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Started as a teenager, quit as a teenager. I was both dumb and smart as a teenager.
     
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    Morgoroth Just because I happen to have tentacles, it doesn'

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    Only the occational cigar on special occations, so only a few on a yearly basis, but I otherwise I don't really smoke. Everyone else in the family smokes so I'm an exception in that regard and quite happy about it too.

    [ May 18, 2007, 20:53: Message edited by: Morgoroth ]
     
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    Same here, Morgoroth. Both my parents smoked, my mom still does. I did try a cigarette once at the age of ten, thought it tasted nasty. Then a few years later the allergy was discovered.
     
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    My dad was a chain smoker and it killed him...I don't touch the stuff, nor do I let any of my friends family members do it. Atleast, I try to get them off it if they 're doing it.
     
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    Felinoid Who did the what now?

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    Never really saw the point of getting myself addicted to something. Well, other than gaming, that is. ;)
     
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    Tried it once, never liked it, never got into it.

    In my youth, the 'anti-smoking' campaign was getting underway, and I became quite strident in trying to cajole my mother into quitting. She did, about a decade after I gave up pushing her. :p

    Over time, though, as public opinion got quite unanimous and somewhat draconian against smokers, I've become more of a neutral in the issue - keep it out of other people's faces, but no reason why you can't destroy yourself slightly faster than mother nature is doing. (C'mon - city ordinance banning smoking in an OUTDOOR public place?!? Try banning combustion engine automobiles first! :lol: )
     
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    I stop-drop-and-roll at least once a day so I don't smoke.

    Or did you mean tobacco products?

    I had a 2 pack a day habit. Moving to the second highest taxes on cigarettes province sort of cured me - $80 for a carton of El Cheapos. If I get offered one, I take it. I prefer menthol.
     
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    Nobody has mentioned one of my main reasons for not smoking: it's so bloody expensive! I would never be able to afford it!
     
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    Yes, about five a day.
     
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    Funny now that people mention it ... neither my parents nor my brothers and sisters smoke. I guess that makes it easier to not smoke.
     
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    Smoked MJ for the first time yesterday...
     
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    Caradhras I may be bad... but I feel gooood! Veteran

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    Funny, I'm reading that topic and I realize I've just lighted a cigarette.
     
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    nope.
     
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    No, and even if for some reason I decided to, I inhale enough at the bus stop everyday to last a lifetime. Che. -_- I really hate the smell!
     
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    I've just quit. There, now I've said it. I quit.

    I only smoked regularly for about a year and I already started to have blood circulation problems, namely numbness in my fingers and reduced resistance for colder weather and occasional pains in my lungs. One time I woke up lying on my back, finding that I wasn't breathing. I've never snored or had sleep apnea before I started smoking.

    The expensiveness. Yuh. Never mind the health, but money's something that I'm really short of. Now I can think a lot of other things I can do with 60 euros a month.
     
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    Never smoked at all, not even a drag. My parents both smoke quite heavily and I hate being close to them when they are smoking so I doubt very much I would enjoy smoking. I cant see the attraction to be honest.
     
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