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Smokers.. whats your brand?

yeah, i have to say, i'll accept people coming up to me and yelling at me for smoking, when I can tell fat people to stop eating. Costing us just as much money, but socially acceptable.

Marlboro menthol lights. Started on Camels, was on Turkish Gold for a while, and I did like them. But then I started dating a guy that smoked these marlboros and i switched, and five years later, i'm still stuck on menthols! dammit it's annoying. I should really, really switch to something new, this particular blend of chemicals is getting to me. As long as I don't switch to Newports, I'm fine. Smoked those for a couple of months when I was really, really ghetto. No more.

I do like Darjum Blacks (spelling? dunno). No tobacco, just cloves, I think when I quit I may switch to those for a while. A bit too much anise taste for me to get really used to.

But most of my smoking isn't tobacco. I think people at my office wonder why I cough like a 50-year-old with a 2 pack/day habit, when I smoke many less cigarettes. Clearly there's something going in my lungs. Hope they don't think about it too much.
 
i work in one of the busiest CVS's in NJ (4th ranked? not sure) and let me tel you, we sell an amazingly large amount of cigarettes. Marlboros are definitely top seller, leaving everything in the dust. Reds are most popular, followed by Lights, Ultra Lights, and then Menthols. We have like 25 different varieties of JUST Marlboro..it's sick (that includes soft pack and box as being different types). From then it is basically a mix of Parliaments and Newports.

It saddens me to see so many people buying cigarettes still. Friday nights they are possibly the 2nd biggest selling item. Why do you people still do it? Seriously besides the health risks to yourself, it polutes our environment, hurts ME by your 2nd hand smoke, and is just plain dirty.
 
rockthecasbah said:
It saddens me to see so many people buying cigarettes still. Friday nights they are possibly the 2nd biggest selling item. Why do you people still do it?
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- because they like smoking. Especially when their drinking. Or just after dinner. Or when they need a brake or something to cheer them up or get in contact with strangers or... And off course to satisfy their body's need for the highly addictive drug nicotine..

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I don't smoke. I never have...I don't think I will ever try it either. I just cannot see myself doing something like that...It scares me in a way.

I used to have a negative attitude towards smokers, but not anymore. I realized some of the nicest coolest people are smokers. It doesn't show anything about their personality. To me, if I am going to die, I MUCH rather have it be from something I cannot control, rather than something I chose to do. If I smoked and got lung cancer when I was 70, I would probably never forgive myself until the day I died.

Life is good, I don't see any reason to do anything that might take away from that. But hey, if you wanna smoke fine. I just hate when people do it around me.

And with the fat comment, obsese people are not harming others by 2nd hand smoke, ect. So therefore it's not really a valid comparrison.
 
i am so unbelievably sick of hearing about second-hand smoke. There are three places I can smoke on this earth. Designated smoking areas, which are highly segregated from the rest of the public. My car and apartment (personal space, you're not there). And the general outdoors. I've yet to see my smoke go anywhere but up, up and away... you'd have to be a stalker to get a whiff. So where is all this secondhand smoke? The only place I've never noticed it is on dense city streets, and most of us don't live on dense city streets (all the sidewalks in the suburbs where I live end in nowhere to discourage pedestrianism).

Most of the secondhand smoke I see people (and myself) breathing on city streets are the exhaust fumes from cars and trucks. But again, socially acceptable, no one say anything about that.

I'd like one of these malcontents to go around with a camera for a month, taking pictures of every time they encounter secondhand smoke. Where were you, how close were they, what was going on. Then maybe I'll get it.

edit: if you were in a bar, i don't even want to hear it. alcohol is strictly speaking, a poison. if you're going somewhere to get poisoned, don't bitch because you get poisoned. And, bars are going non-smoking at a quick pace, it's easier to find a non-smoking bar than a smoking one. even in Iowa.
 
I don't know about anyone else, but I was refering to second hand smoke such as, being with friends who smoke in cars, sitting in smoking sections in restaurants, and when outdoors, not all smoke goes straight up. Yes, that is my decision to hang out with those people, and it's not something I have to do. But I still don't like it.
 
JPSpecials, Embassy Regal, B&H, Marlboro Red, Old Holborn (roll-ups), Virginia gold (roll-ups), Camels (my favs), Camel Lights, Marlboro Lights, Amber Leaf, Marlboro menthols. Since 15, some 23 years now.... I know, but its my funeral. Besides over the counter (taxable i.e. legal) drugs theres been a fair sprinkling of grass, black etc.
Other enviromental/personal damaging habits I've undertaken are drinking, eating too much from one food group, unprotected sex, staying awake 36+hours, using electricity, owning cars, being part of 'civilized' society, not taking enough exercise and finally last but not least having children.
'let he who cast...'
 
MacFan782040 said:
I don't know about anyone else, but I was refering to second hand smoke such as, being with friends who smoke in cars, sitting in smoking sections in restaurants, and when outdoors, not all smoke goes straight up. Yes, that is my decision to hang out with those people, and it's not something I have to do. But I still don't like it.
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Hmm. your friends are jackasses. Smoking section I won't defend, but smoking with nonsmokers in the car... well, on a nice summer day with the top down and no windows, that's one thing, but any considerate smoker (yes there are some of us!) will wait :)
 
MacFan782040 said:
If I smoked and got lung cancer when I was 70, I would probably never forgive myself until the day I died.
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Something's gonna get you by the time you get to be that age...everyone dies from something...I for one would be much more pissed off if I got lung cancer when I was 70 and didn't smoke at all my entire life...

With that said, I don't smoke either.
 
rainman::|:| said:
yeah, i have to say, i'll accept people coming up to me and yelling at me for smoking, when I can tell fat people to stop eating. Costing us just as much money, but socially acceptable.
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Depends on what they're yelling at you for; if it's about your health and what you cost them in taxes, then is seems perfectly acceptable to me if you point out to them their eating habits.

If they're yelling at you for smoking in an enclosed area, or right next to them where it's hard for them to move away, then it's only acceptable to point out their eating habits if they're dripping sauce over you or throwing up on you. Don't underestimate second-hand smoke. You might not notice it but to a non-smoker, the smell of someone lighting up in the vicinity immediately obvious, highly unpleasant and does linger on the clothes. I can tell when the person who just got on the bus had a smoke before he/she got in; they smell awful - not that I'd castigate them for it since that's their choice and they're perfectly entitled to do it at the bus stop - if I'm standing near them, I'll move.

Don't like the drinking at a bar so poisoning your body either as a reason. Many people go to a bar for one or two drinks; not to get sozzled. That level of alcohol doesn't appear to do much harm in the longterm to the body and doesn't generally cause anti-social behaviour. There aren't any effects on others from a small number of drinks; unlike smoking. Again, feel free to complain about those in bars moaning about your smoke, when they piss or vomit on you so you can take the stench of their behaviour home with you too.

Smoking where it doesn't offend others is fine; it's entirely up to you if you enjoy it. Proper segregation with decent air-conditioning would be OK too so smokers can still enjoy one but bars which don't have any options or separate them without putting in proper air vents (like most UK bars unfortunately) can be really unpleasant.
 
m-dogg said:
Something's gonna get you by the time you get to be that age...everyone dies from something...I for one would be much more pissed off if I got lung cancer when I was 70 and didn't smoke at all my entire life...

With that said, I don't smoke either.
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Well thanks for that stupid comment. Aside from that, my point I was trying to make was I would not forgive myself from dying from something I chose to do, rather than dying from something, such as another cancer, that I had no control over.

And if the "typical person", as you stated in your comment will die before 70, why is the average life expectancy like 74? Hmmm. Remarks like that will surely send you to the grave. Be happy, life is good.
 
Isn't it amazing the persecution of smokers? Here we are in a thread entitled: SMOKERS...What's your brand? And we still can't get away from the arguments, the 'advice', the 'I just have to tell you in case 4,000,000 other people haven't told you already today that smoking is bad and you're gonna die and go to hell and I really don't like the smell very much so go in your hole and don't come out until you're ready to apologize!!!!!'

When I was talking about fat people, I was saying it in relation to people who just HAVE to tell me that smoking is bad for me at every given opportunity, not necessarily the ones complaining about second-hand smoke or anything else. Because doing the same to thing to fat people isn't socially acceptable. YET.

But I'm working on it. :D
 
Applespider said:
it's only acceptable to point out their eating habits if they're dripping sauce over you or throwing up on you.
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OK, if that's the case, what if I'm on a plane and there's a fat lady sitting next to me and she can't contain her rolls within her alloted space? Is it then acceptable to tell her how incredibly disgusting she is and she'd better stop eating because she's driving up my taxes and ruining my good time?

Smokers get harrassed far too much.
 
decksnap said:
OK, if that's the case, what if I'm on a plane and there's a fat lady sitting next to me and she can't contain her rolls within her alloted space? Is it then acceptable to tell her how incredibly disgusting she is and she'd better stop eating because she's driving up my taxes and ruining my good time?
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Oh most definitely; I am in favour of airlines that charge extra to people who need two seats! :D Although you'd be better off complaining to the flight attendant and seeing if you can get an op-upgrade since you can't sit in the seat you've paid for. A woman who flew on Virgin did that after having to spend a 10 hour+ flight next to someone intruding on her space and damaging her neck ligaments in that position since they wouldn't move her. She got a nice payout too... although from the airline, not the overweight passenger.

I'm actually not anti-smoking although I can't see the attraction myself. I just don't like the public side-effects when I can't escape from them.
 
About twenty years ago, when I was a pack-a-day smoker as a student, I used to smoke Dunhill. It had a red and gold pack in New Zealand at the time... This smoking phase lasted just over two years before I stopped completely.

Now I would prefer to think of the brand as Dunghill.
 
Blue Velvet said:
This smoking phase lasted just over two years before I stopped completely. Now I would prefer to think of the brand as Dunghill.
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It's good that you stopped, Blue. When I was around fifteen, I took one puff at the continuous urging of some classmates and promptly went into a lengthy coughing fit ... never tried again nor succumbed to the pressure exerted by peers to do as they were doing.
 
I agree with you guys that cigarettes are nasty and disgusting. Cigars on the other hand, have so much more flavor then any cigarette would ever hope to have. I smoke Padron 1964 40th Anniversary Maduro's. :D
 
bursty said:
I agree with you guys that cigarettes are nasty and disgusting. Cigars on the other hand, have so much more flavor then any cigarette would ever hope to have. I smoke Padron 1964 40th Anniversary Maduro's. :D
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Your certainly right they have more flavor - and odor. Cigars is just about the only thing I don't smoke. They're way to much for me... Rather nutts they contain so much nicotine that you can get dizzy just containing the smoke in your mouth.

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