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Anyone here smoke?

departuresong said:
Used to try every once in a while (cigarettes, not weed) and it honestly isn't that great. Go ahead and give it a try if you want but it's pretty unpleasant.

Edit: Could you all ease up on the guy, please? It's not like he was going to go smoke in a hugely public area surrounded by several asthmatics.
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We're worried about him as much as about the asthmatics.
 
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No. And for the love of God, if you're going to smoke, do it alone somewhere you won't be causing discomfort to anyone else around you.
 
ok? and thanks departuresong for havin my back and I'm most likely going to do it at my older brother's house so relax on the whole asma person thing ok? thanks

Edit: Also I appreciate the concern everyone here has for me
 
Keep in mind that nicotine is an incredibly addictive substance, on-par with heroin. You may think you're trying it "just this once" and then find yourself needing a smoke every single day. And it's incredibly hard to quit.

I've never smoked (cigarettes, anyway), but from what I hear it's not worth it. The long-term health damage and addiction greatly outweighs the buzz you get from it. If you're dead-set on trying it, there's really nothing we can do to stop you, but be warned: it could become a permanent part of your life.
 
I do not.

My mom did a waaaaaay long time ago, but she thankfully managed to quit.
 
Hell no. My grandfather died from emphyzema (sp?) before I was even born due to smoking. And this was a guy who stole a Nazi's flag in WWII.
 
Please don't smoke!

Oh my... Please don't smoke. you'll no doubt regret it when you get older. My mother quit smoking for a long time (years!) and and suddenly started again. That shows how addictive it is. Also, you may get a bad reputation and be avoided by people. It's definitely a VERY bad idea.
 
Rasrap Smurf said:
I detest smoking so much that I'll cross the street just to avoid walking past someone who is smoking (I used to just hold my breath but there are some people who make it seem like they intentionally blew it in your face).
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I do that too. ^^ I thought I was being melodramatic! I really do hate smoking though...just breathing in passive smoke makes me cough. I hate it, and a lot of people do it at my college. =/

So no. I don't and hopefully won't ever.
 
It doesn't really make sense to me that pot is illegal in the USA :v crazy Dutch/Portuguese logic here I guess but I really don't see the big issue. Sure it's better to be completely sober on everything but between weed and tobacco? Weed.

My dad used to smoke but he quit recently, thankfully. His dad died of lung cancer so I guess he had a motivation?
Coincidentally none of my friends smoke tobacco, though about half do weed from time to time.
 
guys, honestly. If the threat of most kinds of cancer, a lifelong addiction and him smelling disgusting aren't deterring him from smoking I highly doubt that a bunch of tcoders are going to.

don't smoke, but my parents do. My mum smoked when she was pregnant with me, actually. :/

are there like bans in any of your countries on smokes? tobacco products in Australia just went up something like 3%, they can't be advertised anywhere, they all have pictures of diseased body parts with labels like 'SMOKING CAUSES CANCER', etc. There's also going to be a law soon that cigarettes are all going to have the same packaging.

an incredibly addictive substance, on-par with heroin.
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mmm... yes and no. Heroin can be seriously damaging to your body if you decide to stop taking it (physical dependancy is that high) but fair point.
 
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Vladimir Putin's LJ said:
It doesn't really make sense to me that pot is illegal in the USA :v crazy Dutch/Portuguese logic here I guess but I really don't see the big issue. Sure it's better to be completely sober on everything but between weed and tobacco? Weed.

My dad used to smoke but he quit recently, thankfully. His dad died of lung cancer so I guess he had a motivation?
Coincidentally none of my friends smoke tobacco, though about half do weed from time to time.
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afaik weed isn't legal in Portulol either???
 
ultraviolet said:
are there like bans in any of your countries on smokes? tobacco products in Australia just went up something like 3%, they can't be advertised anywhere, they all have pictures of diseased body parts with labels like 'SMOKING CAUSES CANCER', etc.
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Pretty much the same sort of thing here in Britain, except for just the "SMOKE THESE AND DIE" messages as opposed to pictures of diseased body parts. Plus the legal age for buying (and possibly consuming, I forget what it was before) tobacco went up from 16 to 18 a year or two ago.

Printing diseased organs on the box sounds like a cool idea though, because we were shown tobacco-affected body parts in Biology and/or PHSE a few times and they look really disgusting.
 
If you want insight on cigarettes in the US, uh... the other day I drove past a gas station that had an enormous banner saying "LOWEST CIG PRICES ALLOWED BY LAW!". :v

edit: but yeah, we don't get diseased body parts or anything, I don't think. :( Just that surgeon general's thing and having to watch stupid PSA videos from the 1980's every year at school.
 
ultraviolet said:
mmm... yes and no. Heroin can be seriously damaging to your body if you decide to stop taking it (physical dependancy is that high) but fair point.
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I was talking about the sheer addictive potential. Heroin being damaging to the body during withdrawal is a different story that has more to do with how the drug affects the brain rather than how addictive it is. As far as initial physical dependency, they're about the same.

Yes, much like Watershed, I'd actually be way more comfortable if you came here talking about trying weed with your brother. At least with it, it's easy to just walk away and never do it again. Cigarettes, meanwhile, could easily turn you into yet another statistic.
 
My dad died of a condition related to his thirty years' smoking (emphysema). So that put me right off.
 
No, I don't, and I never well. Smoking is disgusting, plus I have asthma.

Though I will not tell you to not do it. It's your choice, so I really have no business in telling you that "lolsmokingkills".
 
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