Less than 5

Ewww. 0

Except the gubment gets a big chunk of that.

Weird. I pictured you as a Virginia Slims man.

2 or 3 drags. Started hacking up a lung, threw down the cig and never looked back. I think I was 12 or 13. Never chewed/dipped, either

Smoked my fair share of marijuana from 17-19, though. And still will smoke the occasional cigar, maybe 2 or 3 per year.

I've noticed that there does seem to be some correlation between people who have never smoked and people who are annoying twats.

Not in every case, mind you, but it does pop up enough to form a pattern.

I guess it depends on how you smoke. When I have seen people smoke, it has generally been at a bar bar where they are drinking and talking...basically a relaxed smoke. I'm sure that takes longer than someone running outside to take a smoke break at work when they are focused on smoking.

Kind of like nursing a drink versus aggressively drinking...

well that's just a matter or perspective, isn't it?


people not like you are twats
you smoke, so people who don't smoke aren't like you

Actually I don't smoke. Quit smoking cigarettes years ago. Don't even smoke cigars now.

I'm just not a ****ing asshole about it.

I mostly was a pack a day smoker and probably at least 22 years that is 160710 cigarrettes 8036 packs of them. That doesn't count the years growing up inhaling my dads King Edwards cigars he smoked in the car, living room, out in the garage or just about anywhere.


I remember in grade school being called out of class by the teachers when I wore my denim jacket them accusing me of smoking.


I don't remember when I started smoking or how old I was just that I grew up around it & have smoked for a long time myself. Glad I quit this year in february hope to stay quit. I can now breath with out hacking up a lung.

It was easier to smoke more back in the day. People watch Mad Men or similar shows and think it's funny that everybody was smoking, but that's the way it was up until a little over 20 years ago. I'd probably go through two or three an hour at work, although they mostly burned away in the ash tray while I was working. The first smoking restrictions I encountered were in '89, when the admiral at Great Lakes imposed a work space ban and decreed that we'd have to go use a converted men's room in the basement as a lounge (God, was I pissed LMAO ). I could still smoke at my desk when I got my first civilian job in '90, and that didn't change until a couple of years later.

:spock: You don't think smoking a pack of day of something that is proven to kill is pathetic?

Heh, yea it's unreal to think everyone would just light up at their desks back in the day.

None

Instead of end caps at grocery stores, they had ashtrays. There were ashtrays in hospital and doctor office waiting rooms. I had a doctor that chain-smoked and just flicked his ashes into the examination room sink.

I walked into a tool rental shop in a part of town I don't frequently work a couple weeks ago. Smelled like cigs horribly. I thought to myself, "they must have really, really smoked a lot in here years ago". Then I watched the owner light up right there inside. Seemed so foreign and weird to me. I'm guess it hurts that guy's business at this point because I'm not even a snob about stuff like that and I was taken aback.

Maybe 2 or 3

I have never quite understood the hate from non-smokers, such as yourself. I mean, really? LMAO

People like you bitched and moaned about others smoking in public places and you got what you wanted. Smoking is banned everywhere, (even outdoors... zoos, parks, etc.). Yet, you're still being a holier-than-thou douche and still bitching about what others do to themselves.

How would you feel if people ragged on you about all the dicks you smoke?

Zero... :thumb:

I haven't had a cigarette in years, but I'd light one up right now if I there was a way to blow the smoke through my screen into the face of every asshole who behaves like this. One of hardest parts of quitting for me was shaking the feeling that they'd won.

It wasn't proven to kill back in the day, and it was socially acceptable. Quit being a dick.

Everything kills you dude. Everything. I've never smoked a cig in my life, but don't rag on people.

I could stand to lose a few pounds. You drive in a car. Shit kills people.

How am I being holier than thou? It's a pathetic habit that can kill you. It's as simple as that. You can do it all you want, I didn't bitch about you doing it. I never said that you need to stop. I just said that it's pathetic.

LMAO You're comparing smoking cigarettes to driving? Really?

Laugh your ass off all you want. You could die in a car crash tomorrow and Lumpy could live well into her 80's smoking happily.

You have to die of something.

BTW I'm not saying smoking is good for you, but there is very little we do for ourselves that is good.

You're just here to call people pathetic.

Because of people like Lumpy, my insurance premiums have increased.

LMAO This reminds me of a story...

We were waiting in line at Ihop, (this was right before they passed the ban), and we had asked for the smoking section. The hostess apologized and told us that they were completely non-smoking. We said, "okay, thanks anyway", turned around and was leaving, (we figured we would just go somewhere that wasn't packed and allowed smoking).

All of a sudden this little gray-haired lady, (she must have been pushing 80 and looked like death warmed over), pipes up and says (loud enough for everyone to hear), "I'm glad they don't allow smoking... smokers are disgusting". That type of shit is uncalled for and just made her look like an uppity bitch.

Um, no... I blame that shit on Obama.

To the DC!!!

Edit: Btw, I'm quitting soon. Why? Because I'm working out now and I'm sick of paying $5 for a pack of smokes. Just had a complete physical done, too. Aside from being extremely stressed, I'm pretty damn healthy.

I actually blame it on fat people.

I hope you kicked her wrinkled old ass. :$2500:

Yeah, it's not because of the out of control health care costs across the board or anything...

Nah, but she got "the look". The, "listen here you old bitty, you're going to die soon anyway, so shut your dusty hole", look.

Heh. She's probably dead now.

Darn.

:fire:

Why ya gotta do that, Fraz? Now I feel bad. :huh:

You don't think that you're acting like a douche about it? Come on, King. The other non-smokers simply posted, "0", "zero", "nada", etc. Yet, you felt the need to throw out the phrase, "pathetic habit" and carry on.

It's an addiction. One that is extremely difficult for the majority of people to kick. The last thing that people struggling with such an addiction, (myself included), needs is someone talking down to them.

Mkay?

~90K

I dont like smoking either, but its an addiction for many. Alot of people cant help themselves. Stop pretending your above everyone else.