Posted on 07/24/2023 8:01:34 PM PDT by DoodleBob
same here- quit years ago, but quit too late- can’t walk up stairs without feeling like im gonna keel over not able to breathe- but yeah, the world was a much better place where people that wanted to smoke could, and those that didn’t could sit in designated no smoking areas- now the no smoking laws are so freakin rediulous you can’t even have a smoke on hospital grounds outside anywhere- where people are feeling the most stress and in need of a smoke-
You have to light up 50’ away from your workplace. It’s stupid enough to make me want to take it up. I’m in my 60’s so it won’t matter as much as I’ll die from something else.
We had a young babe who would just wrap her lips around that cigarette as if it were a live shaft. Very sexy.
At 72, I still like a few nightly beers and have been smoking since I entered the Army in 1969, a similar brand like Marlboros but made and sold on a local Indian reservation for $33/carton.
>> A restaurant should have the right to allow smokers or not as the owner sees fit.
Absolutely agree! If a customer doesn’t prefer to ruin his meal by being forced to breathe smoke while eating it, said customer doesn’t need to patronize the place!
And I wouldn’t.
Same concept applies to “no guns” restaurants.
Steve Martin - Smoking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkj3V-FW6Yw
I swear I smell more marijuana smoke now on the streets and in public (open) spaces than I ever smelled tobacco smoke as a kid
I recall once when I was on a business trip to Bedford, MA. Back when I was traveling a lot I would frequently eat dinner at the hotel bar and chat with other businessmen. The time in Bedford was interesting because they would not serve food to me at the bar, because…now get this…smoking was allowed at the bar. However, I could eat 15 feet away at a table.
She recalled the smell of barbecued teenagers?
I smoked for 35 years, I now am using e-cigs they saved my life, no more smell, no more yellow film everywhere, it is just steam with nicotine!! I have redone my entire house I can’t believe this invention got me off of smoking!! No more tar and chemicals, I NEVER thought I could get off of cigarettes BUT IT WORKED!! OMG the person that invented this product has SAVED thousands of lives, AND saved money to all that have switched over!! Cigarettes in Ca. are damn near $10.00 a pack the pod put into the device last me about 3 days, two pods come in each box and they are $10.00! I am SO THANKFUL for this product!!
I should add that I don’t smoke.
Any group of people who don’t police themselves will be policed ... and they won’t like it.
Smokers arrogantly REFUSED to police themselves. They inevitably got policed, and didn’t like it.
Tough poop, smokers. No sympathy whatsoever for them.
It seems like pot odor spreads a lot more than just cigarettes. I can smell someone smoking pot a few houses away but I usually have to be right near a person to smell them smoking tobacco.
Smoking is about as cool as picking your nose in public. While it is true that second hand smoke is not a health hazard, it is also true the second hand smoke is rude and inconsiderate so don’t be a a—hole and make any.
Beware of strong drink ... it can cause you to shoot at tax-collectors ... and MISS.
>> Smoking is about as cool as picking your nose in public.
Equally addictive, too. (Or so I hear.)
Several years ago, I bought some name brand packaged veg seeds for the garden at Home Depot. Not that I partake, but I swear those plants were a weed of a special variety. I asked on the FR garden thread and pulled them up pronto.
There are places where smoking is banned at beaches and parks.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em. Just not around me.
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