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I've just been standing up outside getting a bit of fresh air only to be stood near some man puffing away on a cigarette with the wind blowing it into my face choking me. Here I am thinking "This tastes disgusting" as I am inhaling it into my lungs with every breath. Then I start to wonder "what's the point?". I'm standing there asking myself why people smoke.
It takes more than one cigarette to becoming addicted I thought so it can't be that as if people didn't like the first puffs why would they want to try a second time? So they must enjoy it I'm thinking.. but then I think Why? That don't smell or 'taste' nice to me. Yet people are spending 2 to 4 quid on just a packet of 10 or 20 on a regular basis. That could end up being 20 pounds a week.. I could get a DVD for that. And a DVD would give me more enjoyment than 100 cigarettes in a week.
I suppose it doesn't help that all the celebrities do it. These are many people's role models and they grow up thinking smokings a way to be cool. Other people must think its a grown up thing to do as all the older kids do it and you have to be over 16 to smoke so maybe it's this a desperate plee to be respected as an adult not a child.
I'm sure you have seen it all before. The "leader" of your group (the one everyone respects and wants to be like) starts smoking, you get offered a cigarette (which you have to accept or you won't look cool) and then you start smoking on a regular basis. Then you become addicted then you die at an earlier age then you should of. Is this how all people begin smoking? It can't be for the taste..
I don't mean to offend anyone on this site who is reading this that may smoke - I'm just curious. How did you begin smoke? I'd like to know as I have never even tried one - I don't wish to there are much better things I'd like to spend my money on. So despite not ever trying one from it's smell and taste and all the smoke that comes off it to me cigarettes look very unpleasing and I'm wondering why people do it. Is it peer pressure? Or is it something else.
And if you do smoke I ask you one thing.. please check which direction the wind is going before you light up..
It takes more than one cigarette to becoming addicted I thought so it can't be that as if people didn't like the first puffs why would they want to try a second time? So they must enjoy it I'm thinking.. but then I think Why? That don't smell or 'taste' nice to me. Yet people are spending 2 to 4 quid on just a packet of 10 or 20 on a regular basis. That could end up being 20 pounds a week.. I could get a DVD for that. And a DVD would give me more enjoyment than 100 cigarettes in a week.
I suppose it doesn't help that all the celebrities do it. These are many people's role models and they grow up thinking smokings a way to be cool. Other people must think its a grown up thing to do as all the older kids do it and you have to be over 16 to smoke so maybe it's this a desperate plee to be respected as an adult not a child.
I'm sure you have seen it all before. The "leader" of your group (the one everyone respects and wants to be like) starts smoking, you get offered a cigarette (which you have to accept or you won't look cool) and then you start smoking on a regular basis. Then you become addicted then you die at an earlier age then you should of. Is this how all people begin smoking? It can't be for the taste..
I don't mean to offend anyone on this site who is reading this that may smoke - I'm just curious. How did you begin smoke? I'd like to know as I have never even tried one - I don't wish to there are much better things I'd like to spend my money on. So despite not ever trying one from it's smell and taste and all the smoke that comes off it to me cigarettes look very unpleasing and I'm wondering why people do it. Is it peer pressure? Or is it something else.
And if you do smoke I ask you one thing.. please check which direction the wind is going before you light up..
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.....Yet people are spending 2 to 4 quid on just a packet of 10 or 20 on a regular basis. That could end up being 20 pounds a week.. I could get a DVD for that. And a DVD would give me more enjoyment than 100 cigarettes in a week..........
You could also use (or so I am told) the services of a postitute for £20 and somepeople may enjoy that more than 100 Cigerettes.
You could also use (or so I am told) the services of a postitute for £20 and somepeople may enjoy that more than 100 Cigerettes.
no10 wrote:
If all smokers gave up tomorrow, all drinkers gave up drinking and all gamblers gave up gambling the government would have to put up taxes to make up the income they would lose on the heavy taxes on Alcohol, Fags and betting.
I've had this argument loads of times, the fact of the matter is, if people stopped drinking, smoking today then the government would be financially crippled.
Forget about the fuel blockades, this would be about a hundred time worse and the country would grind to a halt.
So to all of you anti smoking, anti drinking people out there, just remember it's the like of us beer drinking, tab smoking machine guns that keep this country going!
Right, I'm off to the pub for a couple of pints and a pack of twenty......anyone care to join? :)
Have a good weekend.....
If all smokers gave up tomorrow, all drinkers gave up drinking and all gamblers gave up gambling the government would have to put up taxes to make up the income they would lose on the heavy taxes on Alcohol, Fags and betting.
I've had this argument loads of times, the fact of the matter is, if people stopped drinking, smoking today then the government would be financially crippled.
Forget about the fuel blockades, this would be about a hundred time worse and the country would grind to a halt.
So to all of you anti smoking, anti drinking people out there, just remember it's the like of us beer drinking, tab smoking machine guns that keep this country going!
Right, I'm off to the pub for a couple of pints and a pack of twenty......anyone care to join? :)
Have a good weekend.....
Personally, I'm not anti-smoking - people can smoke as much as they want, as far as I'm concerned... but as I have decided not to smoke myself, I just object to having breathe the choking cack that comes out of other people's ciggies.
If only they could invent a smokeless cigarette.
If only they could invent a smokeless cigarette.
It's the governments hipocrisy that annoys me. They are always banging on about reducing the number of smokers. They launch regular TV awareness campaigns on the dangers and they moan about the cost to the NHS. The truth is that the government earns an enormous amount of money through the tax on fags - far more than the cost of treating a few cancer patients.
If all smokers gave up tomorrow, all drinkers gave up drinking and all gamblers gave up gambling the government would have to put up taxes to make up the income they would lose on the heavy taxes on Alcohol, Fags and betting. I wonder if all the non-smokers, non-drinkers and non-gamblers would be so ANTI if they realised the cost they would incur themselves if everyone thought the same as they did.
If all smokers gave up tomorrow, all drinkers gave up drinking and all gamblers gave up gambling the government would have to put up taxes to make up the income they would lose on the heavy taxes on Alcohol, Fags and betting. I wonder if all the non-smokers, non-drinkers and non-gamblers would be so ANTI if they realised the cost they would incur themselves if everyone thought the same as they did.
Goatboy wrote:
> I agree restaurants should be non-smoking and planes etc,
> but if I'm outside? Shut up and move.
I don't smoke, but I grew up with both parents smoking heavily; I tried it once, and have never, ever been tempted to do it again.
I'd agree with Goatboy, though - smoking should be banned completely in public places and on public transport/planes etc. but not out in the open.
However...
My choice not to smoke doesn't affect anyone's health, whereas passive smoking *may* affect mine. While I have no objection to people smoking outside, it's surely common decency to make sure that your smoke isn't blowing in someone elses face.
If a non-smoker stands next to someone smoking, they have only themselves to blame. However, if a smoker stands upwind of someone who's not smoking, they should - where possible - ensure that their smoke isn't blowing in that person's face, just in case. :-)
> I agree restaurants should be non-smoking and planes etc,
> but if I'm outside? Shut up and move.
I don't smoke, but I grew up with both parents smoking heavily; I tried it once, and have never, ever been tempted to do it again.
I'd agree with Goatboy, though - smoking should be banned completely in public places and on public transport/planes etc. but not out in the open.
However...
My choice not to smoke doesn't affect anyone's health, whereas passive smoking *may* affect mine. While I have no objection to people smoking outside, it's surely common decency to make sure that your smoke isn't blowing in someone elses face.
If a non-smoker stands next to someone smoking, they have only themselves to blame. However, if a smoker stands upwind of someone who's not smoking, they should - where possible - ensure that their smoke isn't blowing in that person's face, just in case. :-)
I smoke.
I enjoy it. The 1st time I hacked my guts up and felt ill.
But went back to it, just because I wanted to.
The one thing that really, really gets on my nerves are non-smokers that moan, it's never to my face.
(not directed at you).
Why don't people stand outside pubs and moan?
I don't drink, but I don't say anything to those that do.
And drink is just as damaging, liver etc.
Plus (to quote Bill Hicks)
I can't kill anyone in a car because I went out and smoked 11 fags and then drove home.
Unlike booze.
It's my choice what I do to my body, just as it's my choice to eat meat.
It's a drug, a very powerful drug.
Why are smokers treated like freaks?
Alcholism, people put on a sad face and wouldnt complain to someone.
But no, smokers are easy targets.
Well, I speak only for myself here, you don't like the fact I smoke?
Go stand somewhere else.
I agree restaurants should be non-smoking and planes etc, but if I'm outside? Shut up and move.
I enjoy it. The 1st time I hacked my guts up and felt ill.
But went back to it, just because I wanted to.
The one thing that really, really gets on my nerves are non-smokers that moan, it's never to my face.
(not directed at you).
Why don't people stand outside pubs and moan?
I don't drink, but I don't say anything to those that do.
And drink is just as damaging, liver etc.
Plus (to quote Bill Hicks)
I can't kill anyone in a car because I went out and smoked 11 fags and then drove home.
Unlike booze.
It's my choice what I do to my body, just as it's my choice to eat meat.
It's a drug, a very powerful drug.
Why are smokers treated like freaks?
Alcholism, people put on a sad face and wouldnt complain to someone.
But no, smokers are easy targets.
Well, I speak only for myself here, you don't like the fact I smoke?
Go stand somewhere else.
I agree restaurants should be non-smoking and planes etc, but if I'm outside? Shut up and move.
I've just been standing up outside getting a bit of fresh air only to be stood near some man puffing away on a cigarette with the wind blowing it into my face choking me. Here I am thinking "This tastes disgusting" as I am inhaling it into my lungs with every breath. Then I start to wonder "what's the point?". I'm standing there asking myself why people smoke.
It takes more than one cigarette to becoming addicted I thought so it can't be that as if people didn't like the first puffs why would they want to try a second time? So they must enjoy it I'm thinking.. but then I think Why? That don't smell or 'taste' nice to me. Yet people are spending 2 to 4 quid on just a packet of 10 or 20 on a regular basis. That could end up being 20 pounds a week.. I could get a DVD for that. And a DVD would give me more enjoyment than 100 cigarettes in a week.
I suppose it doesn't help that all the celebrities do it. These are many people's role models and they grow up thinking smokings a way to be cool. Other people must think its a grown up thing to do as all the older kids do it and you have to be over 16 to smoke so maybe it's this a desperate plee to be respected as an adult not a child.
I'm sure you have seen it all before. The "leader" of your group (the one everyone respects and wants to be like) starts smoking, you get offered a cigarette (which you have to accept or you won't look cool) and then you start smoking on a regular basis. Then you become addicted then you die at an earlier age then you should of. Is this how all people begin smoking? It can't be for the taste..
I don't mean to offend anyone on this site who is reading this that may smoke - I'm just curious. How did you begin smoke? I'd like to know as I have never even tried one - I don't wish to there are much better things I'd like to spend my money on. So despite not ever trying one from it's smell and taste and all the smoke that comes off it to me cigarettes look very unpleasing and I'm wondering why people do it. Is it peer pressure? Or is it something else.
And if you do smoke I ask you one thing.. please check which direction the wind is going before you light up..
It takes more than one cigarette to becoming addicted I thought so it can't be that as if people didn't like the first puffs why would they want to try a second time? So they must enjoy it I'm thinking.. but then I think Why? That don't smell or 'taste' nice to me. Yet people are spending 2 to 4 quid on just a packet of 10 or 20 on a regular basis. That could end up being 20 pounds a week.. I could get a DVD for that. And a DVD would give me more enjoyment than 100 cigarettes in a week.
I suppose it doesn't help that all the celebrities do it. These are many people's role models and they grow up thinking smokings a way to be cool. Other people must think its a grown up thing to do as all the older kids do it and you have to be over 16 to smoke so maybe it's this a desperate plee to be respected as an adult not a child.
I'm sure you have seen it all before. The "leader" of your group (the one everyone respects and wants to be like) starts smoking, you get offered a cigarette (which you have to accept or you won't look cool) and then you start smoking on a regular basis. Then you become addicted then you die at an earlier age then you should of. Is this how all people begin smoking? It can't be for the taste..
I don't mean to offend anyone on this site who is reading this that may smoke - I'm just curious. How did you begin smoke? I'd like to know as I have never even tried one - I don't wish to there are much better things I'd like to spend my money on. So despite not ever trying one from it's smell and taste and all the smoke that comes off it to me cigarettes look very unpleasing and I'm wondering why people do it. Is it peer pressure? Or is it something else.
And if you do smoke I ask you one thing.. please check which direction the wind is going before you light up..
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