Do you smoke?
Chyros
21 Mar 2012
I was thinking that it seemed like we had comparatively few smokers on FS, though I'm not sure what I based this thought on. So there you go, do you smoke or not? And if so, what?
Wizard
21 Mar 2012
Officially "no". However, I get drunk a lot and it becomes almost impossible to resist, but never when sober.
I smoked for nearly 10 years and quit 3-4 years ago. Was one of the hardest things I did, although looking back I can't work out why.
Have always been a Marlborough man (minus the hat). Started on Reds, then realised I wouldn't last till I was 20, so switched to Lights. Occasional Lucky Strike fan. Camel Lights also worked at a pinch, but those stupid perforated butts were annoying.
I smoked for nearly 10 years and quit 3-4 years ago. Was one of the hardest things I did, although looking back I can't work out why.
Have always been a Marlborough man (minus the hat). Started on Reds, then realised I wouldn't last till I was 20, so switched to Lights. Occasional Lucky Strike fan. Camel Lights also worked at a pinch, but those stupid perforated butts were annoying.
Alias
21 Mar 2012
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
Major Fuckup
21 Mar 2012
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
Spliff as in a bikkie A.K.A pot?
I some times have a cigar due to them being so expensive and mostly at social occasions.
Camille
21 Mar 2012
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
pretty much exactly the same situation, though in this case the heavy smoker was my mother.
i seriously still can't grasp how anyone can smoke for their own enjoyment, the taste, odour and feeling in your throat and lungs is disgusting and mildly painful. ah well, maybe better not to understand.
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
for some reason that's much more bearable, and at least there's a direct, enjoyable result. imo.
CJ
21 Mar 2012
Camille, on 21 March 2012 - 12:22, said:
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
pretty much exactly the same situation, though in this case the heavy smoker was my mother.
i seriously still can't grasp how anyone can smoke for their own enjoyment, the taste, odour and feeling in your throat and lungs is disgusting and mildly painful. ah well, maybe better not to understand.
Same for me, except I didn't have any heavy smoker in the family. My father did smoke when I was younger, but since I was always telling him not to smoke next to me when I was 4, he ended up stopping it altogether
Alias
21 Mar 2012
Major Fuckup, on 21 March 2012 - 11:50, said:
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
The only thing I smoke is I very occasionally share a spliff with pleasant company.
Spliff as in a bikkie A.K.A pot?
I some times have a cigar due to them being so expensive and mostly at social occasions.
Camille, on 21 March 2012 - 12:22, said:
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
pretty much exactly the same situation, though in this case the heavy smoker was my mother.
i seriously still can't grasp how anyone can smoke for their own enjoyment, the taste, odour and feeling in your throat and lungs is disgusting and mildly painful. ah well, maybe better not to understand.
Camille, on 21 March 2012 - 12:22, said:
Yeah definitely, plus there's the social aspect as well. It doesn't take much for you to get enjoyment from a toke, so you smoke less (in a group setting, at least).
I couldn't be bothered smoking by myself, I've got booze for that.
Major Fuckup
21 Mar 2012
CJ, on 21 March 2012 - 12:27, said:
Camille, on 21 March 2012 - 12:22, said:
Alias, on 21 March 2012 - 10:25, said:
Don't like tobacco. My aunt and uncle were very heavy smokers so the second hand smoke I got was enough to be put off tobacco.
pretty much exactly the same situation, though in this case the heavy smoker was my mother.
i seriously still can't grasp how anyone can smoke for their own enjoyment, the taste, odour and feeling in your throat and lungs is disgusting and mildly painful. ah well, maybe better not to understand.
Same for me, except I didn't have any heavy smoker in the family. My father did smoke when I was younger, but since I was always telling him not to smoke next to me when I was 4, he ended up stopping it altogether
Woulda been good if some one did that for my granddad, He's on oxygen bottles till he dies, Which looks to be in the not to distant future.
Ion Cannon!
21 Mar 2012
No, and I don't ever plan to, I hate every aspect of it.
That said I have smoked weed before a couple of times, that wasn't so bad, but its not something I would ever do much.
Edited by Ion Cannon!, 21 March 2012 - 13:06.
That said I have smoked weed before a couple of times, that wasn't so bad, but its not something I would ever do much.
Edited by Ion Cannon!, 21 March 2012 - 13:06.
Libains
21 Mar 2012
No. Filthy habit, and cannot get my head around the idea. Plus, doesn't mix well with the diabetes.
Wizard
21 Mar 2012
Libains
21 Mar 2012
Wizard
21 Mar 2012
Chyros
21 Mar 2012
I myself don't smoke either; this is not a particularly surprising stance for a chemist of course but I've also had my share as a child with my father and grandpa smoked cigars all the time in front of me.
Slightly Wonky Robob
21 Mar 2012
General
21 Mar 2012
BIG NO. And I don't hesitate to warn people harshly when they smoke near me. I tell them gtfo if they are in my place
I don't care if they smoke weed though, atleast it has a greater purpose
I don't care if they smoke weed though, atleast it has a greater purpose
TheDR
21 Mar 2012
I don't smoke and never will, it just seems like a pointless waste of life and money.
Chyros
21 Mar 2012
Ion Cannon!
21 Mar 2012
Interesting observation I have made. My friends at home who are generally more working class either smoke/smoked or smoke when alcohol is involved. None of my university friends touch the stuff, and they're generally more middle class.
Major Fuckup
22 Mar 2012
Ion Cannon!, on 21 March 2012 - 19:45, said:
Interesting observation I have made. My friends at home who are generally more working class either smoke/smoked or smoke when alcohol is involved. None of my university friends touch the stuff, and they're generally more middle class.
Thats cause the working class work their fucking arses off and suffer more stress mental and physical than the rich cunts above us!
In my work place its only me and the boss who don't smoke.
Ion Cannon!
22 Mar 2012
Major Fuckup, on 22 March 2012 - 10:47, said:
Ion Cannon!, on 21 March 2012 - 19:45, said:
Interesting observation I have made. My friends at home who are generally more working class either smoke/smoked or smoke when alcohol is involved. None of my university friends touch the stuff, and they're generally more middle class.
Thats cause the working class work their fucking arses off and suffer more stress mental and physical than the rich cunts above us!
In my work place its only me and the boss who don't smoke.
Thats a rather narrow view to take on things, did it never cross your mind that alot of the "richer" people earned it? Sure, some didn't. But likewise theres alot of unemployed benefit scroungers who smoke. They're certainly not suffering mental/physical stress.
Major Fuckup
22 Mar 2012
Ion Cannon!, on 22 March 2012 - 11:10, said:
Major Fuckup, on 22 March 2012 - 10:47, said:
Ion Cannon!, on 21 March 2012 - 19:45, said:
Interesting observation I have made. My friends at home who are generally more working class either smoke/smoked or smoke when alcohol is involved. None of my university friends touch the stuff, and they're generally more middle class.
Thats cause the working class work their fucking arses off and suffer more stress mental and physical than the rich cunts above us!
In my work place its only me and the boss who don't smoke.
Thats a rather narrow view to take on things, did it never cross your mind that alot of the "richer" people earned it? Sure, some didn't. But likewise theres alot of unemployed benefit scroungers who smoke. They're certainly not suffering mental/physical stress.
Earned it as in having rich parents who put them into good school/college where they get all the attention, help they can get to become accredited on what they want because they have the wealth to pissfart around perusing hobby's and other interests and not having any bills to worry about, no need to budget or stress out about paying rent. They don't sit awake at night uncertain about their future because his or hers parents can bail them out. Ion do you know what it feels like to be unemployed? Only getting enough money from the government to keep the lights on and the water running?
I spent a year unemployed, waking up late every day and jumping straight on the booze to deal with depression, depression caused by flood of emails from potential employers every day saying they require some one with experience or simply lying that the position is filled. Do you know how that shit feels? To sit infront of a computer all day slamming resumes away with no result, you feel like the biggest worthless piece of shit. I can see how the weaker minded people living in some dank suburb can turn into smoking, drinking and drugs to escape or slightly alter reality and their emotion even if its short lasted.
