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Smoking

Do you smoke?

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 17.7%

  • No

    Votes: 87 66.9%

  • Used to, but gave it up

    Votes: 20 15.4%
  • Total voters
    130
Electro Funk said:
ever heard of brushing your teeth? i have been smoking for years and my teeth are pearly white.....


coffee turns your teeth brown.... do you drink any?
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Don't try and argue that smoking doesn't show up on your teeth. Your particular case might be special, I don't know, but you can tell smokers by their teeth. I'd guess that I could tell with 99% accuracy whether someone smoked (or has smoked heavily) just by looking at their teeth.
 
Electro Funk said:
i even once had an old lady in ohio yell at me for smoking at the table next to her in the "SMOKING SECTION" of a bar! i proceded to light up 5 giggs at the same time and blow the smoke at her and her husband the whole time they ate dinner :rolleyes: .... now im usually a pretty nice guy.... but if smoke bothers you that much.... move the the GIANT non-smoking section of the restaurant....
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Folks like you are what give smokers a bad name.

I've been around smokers most of my life. Most are sensitive to non-smoker issues and will adjust when possible.
 
I'm not saying that you're going to hell for smoking or whatever. It's a personal choice, and its one that has consiquinces, whether you believe them to be good or bad, just like any choice.

And i understand that smoking isn't illegal, but it is illegal in alot of places, so i think both non-smokers and smokers have to agree that in the places where it is legal its fine to smoke, and people cant flip out about it, but in places that are said to be off-limits, just dont smoke there. And i think that mos people are pretty good with that stuff.
 
sushi said:
Folks like you are what give smokers a bad name.

I've been around smokers most of my life. Most are sensitive to non-smoker issues and will adjust when possible.
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IF YOU DONT LIKE SMOKE, DONT SIT IN THE SMOKING SECTION AND THEN BITCH AT SOMEONE WHO IS SMOKING!
 
OutThere said:
Don't try and argue that smoking doesn't show up on your teeth. Your particular case might be special, I don't know, but you can tell smokers by their teeth. I'd guess that I could tell with 99% accuracy whether someone smoked (or has smoked heavily) just by looking at their teeth.
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i will argue this with you until my teeth turn yellow....


i am 33 and started smoking when i was 13.... i brush my teeth 3 times a day and i would be willing to bet that thay are whiter than yours.....:rolleyes:

Dont tell me what i should and should not argue about or we will have a whole new arguement on our hands... :rolleyes:

look im not advocting smoking and i sure dont encourage people to smoke.... but i will say this.... if i am in a smoking section and someone rudely yells at me about smoking.... they are definately going to regret it....
 
Electro Funk said:
IF YOU DONT LIKE SMOKE, DONT SIT IN THE SMOKING SECTION AND THEN BITCH AT SOMEONE WHO IS SMOKING!
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I hate smoking and inconsiderate smokers... but your spot on...

As long as you dont flip out when someone says something when you are smoking in a non smoking area (not saying you do)

EDIT: just saw your "light up 5 cigs and blew it in their face" comment.... Lucky i wasnt there as you would be farting smoke for a month
 
Electro Funk said:
whiter than yours.....:rolleyes:
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That's beside the point.

My point was not about your teeth in particular, but the fact that smoking stains teeth. I'd bet that almost all smokers would agree that smoking has negative effects on peoples teeth.

I said nothing about your teeth in particular.

Like I said earlier, I could care less wtf anyone does with regard to smoking. It's not my problem. However I won't stand down and let people say that smoking doesn't have any effect on teeth...because that's simply not true.
 
BakedBeans said:
I hate smoking and inconsiderate smokers... but your spot on...

As long as you dont flip out when someone says something when you are smoking in a non smoking area (not saying you do)

EDIT: just saw your "light up 5 cigs and blew it in their face" comment.... Lucky i wasnt there as you would be farting smoke for a month
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Ya know what? He's got a point. If you deliberately sit in the smoking section of a restaurant then complain, you're an idiot! I don't blame him at all for what he did. It wasn't him who was being inconsiderate, it was her! Good Lord, there's an entire non-smoking section in the restaurant and she wants to go to the smoking section and start telling people not to smoke around her? Give me a break! :rolleyes: She needs to take responsibility for her own actions. And from what he said, she was rude to begin with.
 
BTW, as was mentioned above... the reason that governments don't just outright ban smoking is that they derive WAY too much tax income from the sale of cigarettes... the conversation goes something like this:

Bureaucrat #1: "Well, if smoking is so bad, why don't we just ban it and ban the growing of tobacco?"

Bureaucrat #2: "No, we can't do that! We'd lose a HUGE stream of tax revenue! We can't tax people for NOT smoking!"

Bureaucrat #1: "Hmm, good point. Well, what should we do?"

Bureaucrat #2: "Let's just keep raising the cigarette tax until we've maximized the amount of incoming tax revenue. At the same time, we'll keep making it illegal for people to smoke in restaurants, bars, offices... their cars... their homes... eventually, we'll have these poor idiots paying us $20 a pack just so they can shoot up... er, smoke only in sealed plastic bubbles which WE will sell them!"

Bureaucrat #1: "Oh, and I just realized that smokers die earlier than non-smokers, so we save a lot of money there by not having to pay them Social Security benefits for as long!"

Bureaucrat #2: "Yeah!"

You tell me who's more evil: The cigarette companies, or the government idiots who are making more money off cigarettes than the cigarette makers themselves do.
 
My younger sister smoked for a few years. She had the hardest time giving it up even after a short period of time. Not to mention the stench in the car and her clothes, hair, breath.

I don't ever see myself starting that habit.
 
Electro Funk said:
i even once had an old lady in ohio yell at me for smoking at the table next to her in the "SMOKING SECTION" of a bar! i proceded to light up 5 giggs at the same time and blow the smoke at her and her husband the whole time they ate dinner....
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At any point during your demonstration, did you realize that by burning 5 at once, you were wasting *your* money and not theirs - thus not actually making a very good point?

:D
 
So, just out of curiousity, I wonder if Mr. Funk would have any problem using his two legs to walk away from his meal at a restaurant if I were to exercise my right to fart?

And what if he complained too me, and rather than politely holding them in, I clenched up and started pushing out the nastiest, stinkiest farts I could muster?

No problem right? He'd just up and leave if that happened? I mean, there's no law against farting, right?
 
My bus driver started smoking (!!!) which royally got on my tits. Other than that I have rarely been exposed to smoke. Nobody in my family has been daft enough to smoke, except my no-brainer brother. incidentally the only person in our family to have never passed secondary school either.
 
Sammis89 said:
Plus the fact that i think smoking is just plain disgusting.
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I have to look at ugly, ugly people all day long and I find it to be particularly offensive to my aesthetic taste. I am much more attractive than you, but does that mean I want you to stare at me, much less even be on the same side of the street as me? There should be a law, I swear.
 
mactastic said:
So, just out of curiousity, I wonder if Mr. Funk would have any problem using his two legs to walk away from his meal at a restaurant if I were to exercise my right to fart?

And what if he complained too me, and rather than politely holding them in, I clenched up and started pushing out the nastiest, stinkiest farts I could muster?

No problem right? He'd just up and leave if that happened? I mean, there's no law against farting, right?
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That would depend on whether or not he entered the Farting Section and asked you not to fart. Bad comparison. :rolleyes: Come on, give me a break.
 
mactastic said:
The whole world is a farting section, no? :confused:
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Didn't realize it was. However, it's still a bad comparison. How do you hold a fart? I know I can't. They happen whether or not you want them to.

And it still irrelevant. That woman entered an area where she knew people were permitted to engage in a certain behavior and then complained about it, when there were options available to her. In my book, that makes her an idiot and an a**hole.
 
leekohler said:
Didn't realize it was. However, it's till a bad comparison. How do you hold a fart? I know I can't. They happen whether or not you want them to.
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What I'm wondering is whether there is a distinction made between one noxious gas, and another.

Would someone who is offended by people who don't like their smoke be offended if someone sat down next to them in an area not marked "No Farting" and proceeded to rip farts with no consideration of anyone around them?

I think it's a fair comparison.

Edit: Dammit Lee, quit editing your posts!

Just to clarify, this isn't to rebut the charge of someone sitting in a no smoking section and complaining. This is a general question about someone who is adamant about their right to smoke and their attitude towards a different odious gas.
 
leekohler said:
Didn't realize it was. However, it's still a bad comparison. How do you hold a fart? I know I can't. They happen whether or not you want them to.

And it still irrelevant. That woman enetred an area where she knew people were permitted to engage in a certain behavior and then complained about it, when there were options available to her. In my book, that makes her an idiot and an a**hole.
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Total agreement.

And I'd like to extend that argument further. If a bar or restaurant, even in a fascist city like New York City or Los Angeles, chooses to allow smoking inside and posts a sign on the door that says "We allow smoking in this establishment", then I submit that any person who objects to cigarette smoke and goes inside anyway, or any person who complains about the fact that smoking is allowed in said establishment, is a total moron and deserves to be kicked strongly and repeatedly in the ass until their urge to be a moron is dissipated.
 
Electro Funk said:
IF YOU DONT LIKE SMOKE, DONT SIT IN THE SMOKING SECTION AND THEN BITCH AT SOMEONE WHO IS SMOKING!
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I was commenting on your post in general.

Unfortunately, your response is exactly what I expected it to be. No surprises there.

The key is for tolerance and understanding on both sides.

As for your comment above, while I wasn't there and only know of the situation based on your comments, smoking 5 cigarettes and blowing smoke in response to the lady is a rather immature response on your part.
 
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