Smoker or Non-Smoker? - Page 3

**footstep** · August 20th, 2016, 04:44 PM

I smoke since I am 20.
So 30 years now.
I must stop soon to keep some good years.

...soon.

**9876543210** · August 21st, 2016, 12:42 AM

thunderfly,

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Originally Posted by thunderfly

But that is the 'curse' (for want of a better word) of addiction. What harm can just one more cigarette do or just one more bet on the horses or just one more drink? The trouble is that those 'just one mores' usually aren't the last and other 'just one mores' follow on and follow on etc etc.

Ain't that the truth! Thats why I say I'm still a smoker. Even though I haven't touched one in a while. And will probably always be a smoker.

**otokonomidori** · August 21st, 2016, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kosher

I had hoped the UK government would have followed up on the 2007 restrictions by banning it altogether

I suppose you must be aware what happened when the USA made alcohol illegal in the 1920's.

You can't "ban" smoking any more than you can ban booze or gambling or abortion.

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"

**moreteavicar** · August 21st, 2016, 02:03 PM

I have never smoked despite being brought up living in a pub and all my family smoking. I think it just sends you one way or the other. It was the smell of stale smoke and full ash trays that put me off. Especially helping out in a morning by clearing them into a metal box and cleaning the ash tray with a brush. I can almost wretch now at that terrible odour!!!

I was happy for the ban in the UK. It's much more pleasant having a drink or a meal in a smoke free environment. I don't mind people smoking, that is still their perogative but I would rather not smell it.

tafkab · August 21st, 2016, 03:54 PM

Hello !

I stopped smoking 8 years ago and still happy that I managed to do it.

**knobby109** · August 21st, 2016, 04:14 PM

I have lost two young family members-both in their 30s - to smoking.They each left a small child. That's when the theoretical damage it causes becomes real. It's stupid, ugly and damaging.

**@llatse@** · August 21st, 2016, 06:18 PM

I've never smoked....tried it once when I was about 12 and thought.....this tastes like shite after coughing until I thought my lungs would fall out....never really felt any peer pressure either....hey if you want to waste your money on burning leaves, lose all sense of taste and smell like a stokers armpit that's fine by me but I'll stand downwind thanx. Indifferent to the ban.....I used to avoid fuggy smoke filled places anyway.

My favourite smoking quote tho' is from Blackadder "I only smoke after making love.....I'm a 20 a day man"

**rosestone** · August 21st, 2016, 06:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by @llatse@

My favourite smoking quote tho' is from Blackadder "I only smoke after making love.....I'm a 20 a day man"

"I hear Captain Blackadder does a very good line in rough shag. I'm sure he'd be happy to fill your pipe."

**thunderfly** · August 21st, 2016, 07:59 PM

I used to work with a guy who was a chain smoker. After the ban on smoking in the workplace was introduced, he was nipping out for a fag every twenty minutes or so. He was always having really severe coughing fits as I remember and was taken away in an ambulance a couple of times. He must have been a sixty a day man which would cost thirty quid a day now or £210 a week! Surely, at that price he must've cut down by now.

**tsunamiSD** · August 21st, 2016, 09:53 PM

When I went to San Diego Mesa Junior College back in the early 70s, I took a beginning psychology course and the instructor was a psychologist with a masters degree, in his 40s. he had to teach from the back corner of the room so he could smoke a cigarette while teaching - pathetic...

August 21st, 2016, 02:03 PM	#24
moreteavicar Vintage Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 1,284 Thanks: 32,539 Thanked 19,171 Times in 1,256 Posts	I have never smoked despite being brought up living in a pub and all my family smoking. I think it just sends you one way or the other. It was the smell of stale smoke and full ash trays that put me off. Especially helping out in a morning by clearing them into a metal box and cleaning the ash tray with a brush. I can almost wretch now at that terrible odour!!! I was happy for the ban in the UK. It's much more pleasant having a drink or a meal in a smoke free environment. I don't mind people smoking, that is still their perogative but I would rather not smell it. __________________ 5 out of 4 people don't understand fractions.

August 21st, 2016, 06:18 PM	#27
@llatse@ Vintage Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Over the hills and far away Posts: 2,150 Thanks: 7,755 Thanked 24,866 Times in 2,098 Posts	I've never smoked....tried it once when I was about 12 and thought.....this tastes like shite after coughing until I thought my lungs would fall out....never really felt any peer pressure either....hey if you want to waste your money on burning leaves, lose all sense of taste and smell like a stokers armpit that's fine by me but I'll stand downwind thanx. Indifferent to the ban.....I used to avoid fuggy smoke filled places anyway. My favourite smoking quote tho' is from Blackadder "I only smoke after making love.....I'm a 20 a day man" __________________ Lord, we might end up dead or worse, poor

August 20th, 2016, 04:44 PM	#21
footstep Lost luggages? Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: France Posts: 7,268 Thanks: 92,097 Thanked 86,801 Times in 7,170 Posts	I smoke since I am 20. So 30 years now. I must stop soon to keep some good years. ...soon.

August 21st, 2016, 03:54 PM	#25
tafkab Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 86 Thanks: 221 Thanked 381 Times in 65 Posts	Hello ! I stopped smoking 8 years ago and still happy that I managed to do it.

August 21st, 2016, 04:14 PM	#26
knobby109 Vintage Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1,736 Thanks: 144 Thanked 14,339 Times in 1,702 Posts	I have lost two young family members-both in their 30s - to smoking.They each left a small child. That's when the theoretical damage it causes becomes real. It's stupid, ugly and damaging.

August 21st, 2016, 07:59 PM	#29
thunderfly Vintage Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 896 Thanks: 6,620 Thanked 11,388 Times in 896 Posts	I used to work with a guy who was a chain smoker. After the ban on smoking in the workplace was introduced, he was nipping out for a fag every twenty minutes or so. He was always having really severe coughing fits as I remember and was taken away in an ambulance a couple of times. He must have been a sixty a day man which would cost thirty quid a day now or £210 a week! Surely, at that price he must've cut down by now.

August 21st, 2016, 09:53 PM	#30
tsunamiSD Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 53,099 Thanks: 634,225 Thanked 641,233 Times in 53,183 Posts	When I went to San Diego Mesa Junior College back in the early 70s, I took a beginning psychology course and the instructor was a psychologist with a masters degree, in his 40s. he had to teach from the back corner of the room so he could smoke a cigarette while teaching - pathetic...