Posted on 11/08/2018 11:26:43 AM PST by SaxxonWoods
I gave up ciggies years back, but still enjoy a good stogie now and them, but the ones I like are five to ten bucks a stick. Oh, well...
I remember when there were ashtrays in every grocery store...
“I’m just happy it’s one bad habit I managed to miss.”
It’s the only bad habit I’ve picked up that I liked ... I know it sounds ridiculous, but I enjoy smoking (and I am addicted to nicotine ... I’m not in denial).
I do NOT like the disease that it brings though ... plus I can’t stand feeling like trash and the price of cigarettes is beyond ridiculous these days.
I use a vape thing more and more these days. I’m down to about 5 or 6 “regulars” per day ... that total has been falling. If I keep this up, I think I’ll be smoke free (both vape and regulars) in another year at most. I’ll miss it, but I think I like living a hell of a lot more than smoking :-).
“Tyrants LOVE an impaired population.”
They certainly do-the narco-Mafia both here and in Mexico, Colombia, etc manufactures and deals the drugs, but their own family members are forbidden from using and severely punished if they do...
The rural area I live in is remote, and odds are about 50-50 there is a meth lab on the road you live on. Meth dealers and cookers don’t use-they just produce and sell the stuff in the city. But people grow their own food out here and are hard working and active at all ages, so we have very few fatties-a lot of people smoke and there are plenty of drinkers but overweight, drug using or unhealthy people are rare.
On the legal side, look at the incredible increase in the number of people zoned out on prescription drugs from anti-depressants and psychotropics to hard core opiates-way worse than smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol or smoking pot. Liberal nannies don’t want you to look at the number of mass shooters who were/are taking those psychotropics for documented mental illness and still got a gun, either-they want to just grab all of our guns instead-but we’re supposed to trust them on the subject of what substance, food or drink we should be allowed to have?
I was taught by my parents to treat tobacco and alcoholic drinks just like a sugar laden dessert-a pleasure to enjoy if you choose-but do not overindulge-all things in moderation...
I do enjoy a glass of wine or a beer, and I might smoke 1-4 cigarettes-in the evening after dinner-I never indulge in adult beverages or tobacco during work hours-another lesson taught to me in childhood. I never developed a taste for sweets or a lot of carbs-I don’t eat any processed food so I have never been addicted to food and have weighed the same since age 17. I do not use prescription or illicit drugs-I only use supplements/natural remedies-and I will not tolerate any nanny statist in my face telling me what to do-just look what an obesity disaster we have because of that stupid low fat, high carb food pyramid they are still pushing, right along with drugs-no thanks-we all adults and should tell them to vete a la chin***-I’ll manager my own habits and self as I always have. If they want a new tax source, they should just let people have whatever substance they want, tax it and as long as no one sells drugs or alcohol to a person under the age of 18, then it is no harm, no foul-and no taxpayer funds for rehab, gastric bypass, etc-that is why insurance companies exist-choose a risk pool/appropriate policy and buy it yourself, just like working people like us do...
Tobacco is 10x harsher than marijuana, and when you factor in the corporate "processing" that cigarettes undergo, I'd have to conclude that weed is much less harmful.
For instance, smoking weed while pregnant doesn't appear to be particularly dangerous, but with tobacco (nicotine) there's a significant risk of birth defects...
I guess we’ll have to increase tobacco subsidies so teh farmers can keep growing it.
I smoked 1 1/2 packs per day for 42 years, and quit 3 years ago.
My wife still smokes and she’s like you. She just enjoys it. Knows it’s not healthy, doesn’t like the cost, but she enjoys her morning smoke and coffee on the deck. She’s tried to quit, and mostly failed because she doesn’t really want to quit. Just hasn’t hit that point yet.
I vape but......I’m with your wife. There are times when nothing else will do. Sitting at the patio table in the morning with a cup of coffee. After a great meal. Etc. etc. I sometimes only have that one with my coffee in the morning but dam...I like it! Lol
I purchase my tobacco by the pound (The Good Stuff from Eastern North Carolina) and tubes online and roll my own.
Total cost is about $8 per carton. That's about 80 cents a pack.
"A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other."........ George Bernard Shaw
“I’ll miss it, but I think I like living a hell of a lot more than smoking :-).”
At 86 I’m still doing it.
Two years ago I had to get a new doctor since mine retired. The new one is the same age as my kids.
On my first visit he said, “You really should quit smoking.”
I answered, “Why?”
He just laughed.
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Good for you! As a pathologist, what do you attribute the death of people from lung cancer who have never smoked a day in their lives?
And as a pathologist, is it safe to assume it is a part of your job to sign death certificates of your patients?
And if so, those who may have died of lung cancer, what do you write down as the cause of death?
And if so, why not?
As a follow up to my last post, could it be because you can’t prove the cause of death was due to smoking?
That is surprising.
Next to being fat, smokers are the only people who can be openly ridiculed.
Yeah. They still smoked. Just not in front of you.
Hang on to your wallet. They got to make up for that lost tax revenue somewhere.
The cause of death in these cases is lung cancer. And of course non-smokers get lung cancer as well. Relative risk of a smoker getting lung cancer vs. a non-smoker is 8:1. BTW, of the relatives I described as dying of tobacco use only one died of lung cancer.
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