Posted on 08/09/2005 8:37:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I'm a closet heterosmoker. Oh, God. Help me!
I smoke. I like to smoke. I don't care who knows it. I don't care what anyone thinks about it. The folks in this article need to grow up and grow a pair.
I agree. My boss smokes and we all know it, but he constantly tries to hide it. "I'm going to the corner store, be right back" translates to "I'm going to secretly smoke, be right back". There are quite a few of us who smoke, and we just cannot figure out why the secrecy.
Folks, if you think it's a great idea to roll up dried leaves in paper, stick them in your mouth, set them on fire, suck the smoke into your lungs, and spew it out for the enjoyment of others, then do so proudly!
I'm not a closet smoker. Hard to do that when puffing away of a fine, premium, hand rolled, Upman 160th Anniversary #1 Corona. which I just finished doing a mere few moments ago. Ahhhhhhh....smells great, tastes great...less filling...and a great item to keep kids, wives, and misquitos at bay for a little while. Nothing like peace and quiet to enjoy such a delightful smoke.
I think all smokers, secret or otherwise, should understand something from we nonsmokers (which would include this ex-smoker):
We know you're smoking. Breath mints and sprays don't hide it.
The only way a smoker, secret or otherwise, can appreciate how powerful cigarette smoke is in a person's clothes, hair, or even the air around him is...to quit smoking, really quit, then have to smell someone who still smokes. The invariable reaction is, I can't believe I smelled that bad--I can't believe people put up with me!
Note to reactionaries: I am not passing judgement on smoking. Talking about its lingering residue.
When I was a smoker (two weeks ago) I was like Dennis Leary with it..."YEAH I'M SMOKIN' KISS MY A**"
I went cold turkey two weeks ago just to see if I could. It is possible but I still want a cigarette. I can tell you that in another two weeks if I STILL want to smoke, I will because I will be damned if I am going to spend the rest of my life feeling like this.
Our daughter claimed that after we kept her Golden for a week, his fur smelled like an ashtray.
That doesn't mean they won't bring him back when they go on vacation again. (ha)
I just found out that a friend of 30 years--a woman I thought quit smoking 10 years ago--never quit.
She just doesn't tell anybody, but she knows I don't care.
I don't smoke, but I love smokers. Their sins are right there in the air and so innocent and sweet.
I agree. Its amazing what one can smell once one quits smoking.
I used to visit my local roach coach outside my workplace. For the
first year of visiting that truck I smoked, as I had done for 18+ years
prior. One day 6 yrs ago I quit and then a few weeks later I noticed that
the guy who ran the truck cooked far more than I knew before. I could
finally smell that he cooked brownies, cookies, and several other things.
Had to come to the conclusion that I was too weak to 'have just one.'
I cannot do it, so I must never have 'just one.'
Of what?
Yep. Me too. Quit a 39 year habit some 16 years ago and have not regretted a single moment of that. I really don't miss it.
However, like you That doesn't stop me from enjoying a fine
hand rolled (Did I say Cuban ?) Montecristo #2 from time to time. Special occaisions don't cha know,
My sister, married and with a family of her own, hid the fact that she smoked from our Mother, until she finally quit smoking about 5 years ago, when she was 50 years old.
What's that? Is it on network TV?
I think the thing to worry about is the fact that "lying" has become such an accepted thing!! Lying is a terrible character flaw, worse than smoking(since its one of the big ten!) I am an adult, I enjoy smoking, I am honest enough with myself to admit that I don't WANT to quit, so I won't. When my kids say "you should stop mom", because this is what they were told to do in school, I tell them that I am an adult, I am doing nothing illegal and I don't let children make my decisions for me, as for secondhand smoke I pointed out that if it were as dangerous as the "experts" say then no one from the "babyboom" would still be alive. in the 1950's with 75 percent of the population smoking and pregnant women smoking packs a day, the babyboomer generation should have been born retarded and died in their twenties and even the ones that escaped the afore mentioned landmines shouldn't have had the health or intelligence to actually go to college, invent computers, all modern technology, etc...
If you want to smoke, smoke, if you don't , don't....there are many many more critical issues to spend our time, attention and money on!
I, on the other hand, do not smoke.
Hah, drug addict!
Smokers can hide but fat people can't. Fat people tell their friends "I never eat anything and I can't lose wait". Obesity can't be hidden. I'm tired of the smokers who are full of shame and smoke in secret , fat people don't. Here in Louisville, Ky they want to ban smoking in all public places yet they just passed liquer sells on Sunday!!
Exactly. When I was a teenager I tried to hide my smoking from my parents by dousing myself with cologne after I smoked. They weren't fooled. I smelled like cologne and cigarettes.
Eau du tobacco? LOL
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