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I'm learning about that in SS right now but does that mean we must keep the "tradition"
Sorry for setting you off.
Keeping the tradition has nothing to do with it. If they make tobacco illegal, whats next? fatty foods? chocolate? caffiene?
My point is, and its not directed completely at you personally is that we enjoy lots of things in life that are bad for us. Does that mean the government should make them all illegal and decide whats best for its citizens (like Hitler)?
I'll say this for them: they helped me come out of my shell and be more outgoing. For me, it's a social thing.
If I had to do it all over again, I would have picked up the habit... just wish it was easier to quit now.
I quit once. Three weeks. I wasn't myself. No one liked me. I didn't like myself.
Then went to a Union picnic, where EVERYONE smokes in the trades. That did it. I was going around asking people to blow their smoke my way, pretty please.
Smoking is extremely social. I find the nicest people in the world are the ones who enjoy a cigar, a pipe or cigarettes....and they are a little more mellow and friendly.
Can't stand the hypocracy of a small portion of non-smokers. They don't understand what they wish on us, they wish on themselves in other aspects one day down the road. Cigarettes are completely LEGAL. When they take them off the market, obviously...I would quit. It's fashionable today to be an anti-smoker. However, most people on this board are younger than me. When I was growing up, it was the coolest thing in the world to do. You just can't live your life on other's standards. I'm sure non-smokers have their bad habits as well....I'm pretty sure I could pick out a few...if I tried hard enough.
Heck in the late 1980's, hospitals were still putting ashtrays in the trays over the beds.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
I quit once. Three weeks. I wasn't myself. No one liked me. I didn't like myself.
Then went to a Union picnic, where EVERYONE smokes in the trades. That did it. I was going around asking people to blow their smoke my way, pretty please.
Smoking is extremely social. I find the nicest people in the world are the ones who enjoy a cigar, a pipe or cigarettes....and they are a little more mellow and friendly.
Can't stand the hypocracy of a small portion of non-smokers. They don't understand what they wish on us, they wish on themselves in other aspects one day down the road. Cigarettes are completely LEGAL. When they take them off the market, obviously...I would quit. It's fashionable today to be an anti-smoker. However, most people on this board are younger than me. When I was growing up, it was the coolest thing in the world to do. You just can't live your life on other's standards. I'm sure non-smokers have their bad habits as well....I'm pretty sure I could pick out a few...if I tried hard enough.
Heck in the late 1980's, hospitals were still putting ashtrays in the trays over the beds.
Bad habits? Us? Never!
I dont smoke and never have but anyway, I competely agree. In Colorado they've made smoking publicly akin to peeing on the sidewalk or spitting in the drinking fountain. They've almost made it criminal. And its wrong. Some of my best college memories are me and my buddies sitting in a smoke filled bar, rooting for the Broncos, downing come cold ones.
And whats wrong with that?
Rest in Peace, Darrent and Damien. You will be forever in our thoughts
Its a major killer if you smoke for 50 straight years. Dont bring this holier than thou attitude on us. Just dont read the thread and leave the smokers alone. Ill have you know, if you are opposed to stamping out smoker's rights then you have a similarity to Hitler. He felt that members of the third reich should not smoke because it would destroy his property. I say its people's right to choose.
If you dont agree, then fine, we all know the risk of smoking. In fact, without tobacco, the American colonies would have no way to make money and the originial colonies of the United States depended on tobacco for their existance for hundreds of years. Dont believe me? Learn your history.
Do not compare someone who is aware of the dangers of smoking to Hitler.
I chewed for 30+years....and have quit a couple of times....for months at a time....only to start up again.
But now I've been off the 'juice' for a month now, and don't even miss it.
I understand the difficulty of quitting...but sometimes you have to put your health, and that of your family's above your 'need to socialize'. If you have kids, you're cutting your life expectancy down.....and by smoking, you're telling them you don't care to see them grow old.
Plus, if you're smoking in an enclosed area, like a vehicle, you're not doing any good to their lungs, let alone their clothes, skin, hair....which will smell like THEY were smoking.
Growing up, my friends always gave me grief about how I smelled of cigs.....and it embarrassed me.
My entire family has quit smoking........one kicked it, then another, and another...until they all accomplished it.
Sometimes other's feelings are more important than your own........
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
I chewed for 30+years....and have quit a couple of times....for months at a time....only to start up again.
But now I've been off the 'juice' for a month now, and don't even miss it.
I understand the difficulty of quitting...but sometimes you have to put your health, and that of your family's above your 'need to socialize'. If you have kids, you're cutting your life expectancy down.....and by smoking, you're telling them you don't care to see them grow old.
Plus, if you're smoking in an enclosed area, like a vehicle, you're not doing any good to their lungs, let alone their clothes, skin, hair....which will smell like THEY were smoking.
Growing up, my friends always gave me grief about how I smelled of cigs.....and it embarrassed me.
My entire family has quit smoking........one kicked it, then another, and another...until they all accomplished it.
Sometimes other's feelings are more important than your own........
I chewed for 30+years....and have quit a couple of times....for months at a time....only to start up again.
But now I've been off the 'juice' for a month now, and don't even miss it.
I understand the difficulty of quitting...but sometimes you have to put your health, and that of your family's above your 'need to socialize'. If you have kids, you're cutting your life expectancy down.....and by smoking, you're telling them you don't care to see them grow old.
Plus, if you're smoking in an enclosed area, like a vehicle, you're not doing any good to their lungs, let alone their clothes, skin, hair....which will smell like THEY were smoking.
Growing up, my friends always gave me grief about how I smelled of cigs.....and it embarrassed me.
My entire family has quit smoking........one kicked it, then another, and another...until they all accomplished it.
Sometimes other's feelings are more important than your own........
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