Do you smoke?

[Ed209]

Smoking *is* cool .... fact

I used to smoke malboros and then switched to roll-ups when the cost was getting too much, now i'll never go back again. Much prefer them. Taste nicer, less chemicals, less of a smell, cheaper.

Golden Virginia, Swan extra slim filter tips, blue Rizla

[greenfairy43]

wrong ( on the most part anyway)

I smoke a lot (20+ a day) and I know how much smokers smellI stopped for 9 months a coupla years ago, and even though I smoke now, my kids dont know, I carry a can of deo in the car, and have a can in the garage for when I go out for a fag. and the wife reminds me everytime I have one how much I stink. I also have a bottle of mouthwash in the bathroom in case sexytime happens.

I hate it, wish I could quit, but I cave so easily. call me weak (i know I am).

embassy number one by the way.

[t8yman]

You reckon?

If your wife can smell you, what makes yoou think your kids can't?

[greenfairy43]

I know, its very futile, and very sad (sneaking around hiding it from the kids) my daughter is 14, and isnt stupid, but the lad is 6, and I could pick him up from school wearing a pink deerstalker and he wouldnt even notice.

When I say they dont know, I mean I dont smoke in front of them, and it is never spoken about. it actually makes me more ashamed than I already am about smoking. I'm seriously considering those electric cigarettes, because if I cant chuck nicotine addiction, at least they give you a nicotine hit on demand, dont smell, and are about 20 times cheaper. patches work when I am at home, but once I get in the car or go to the boozer, I'm f**ked.

[saratink]

Okay then, when you go into someones house and leave ending up stinking of smoke.

We've had this discussion in college about whether health care workers should be able to smoke whilst on a break.

[feral chile]

Yep. I'm a leper. I normally start training courses by doing the usual "The fire exits are this way, the toilets are down there" etc and then I ask "Hands up the smokers." I put my hand up, look for the other lepers and explain reassuringly "We'll have a fag break about 11.30. Everyone else can have a coffee break but we'll cheat and have a fag and then a coffee."

The last course I ran we had about 40 participants. I put my hand up and found I was staring at a sea of people not one of whom had put a hand up. So I said "When you all have a coffee at 11.30 I'm going out for a fag."

Fagbreak time arrived. I went outside and I found three of the participants also came out and lit up.

"You didn't put your hands up," I said.

"Well," they explained, "We were too ashamed to admit we smoked."

We sad lepers have got to stick together. You still meet all the interesting people in smokers corner.

Oh, and the answer to the question is I smoke Royals.

Edited February 13, 2011 by feral chile

[eFestivals]

We've had this discussion in college about whether health care workers should be able to smoke whilst on a break.

Yes they should.

An employer buys their employees' time for the stipulated number of hours each week, and break times within that time are not the employers' but the employees'.

An employer buys their employees' time for the stipulated number of hours each week, they are not buying someone's life, they are not buying themselves a slave.

[saratink]

We've had this discussion in college about whether health care workers should be able to smoke whilst on a break.

[Ed209]

I've always thought that smokers are on average slightly more interesting people than non-smokers. Obviously this isn't a clear cut rule, but I think smoking is a sign of someone having a slightly more interesting back story and a personality that is a little bit more rough round the edges. Its a difficult thing to explain and I'm expecting a backlash, but its the way I perceive things.

[feral chile]

Nope i don't smoke. Saves my money, saves my lungs, i'm not constantly looking for the next fag, i don't get aggitated because the we're not having a fag break and i don't stink afterwards.

Smokers don't understand how disgusting they smell. I'll have been in my brothers car and he will be smoking, i leave and all i can do is smell the smoke on my clothes..

[t8yman]

I dont think they should unless they're prepared to take their uniforms off, clean their teeth before seeing to patients.

[t8yman]

I've always thought that smokers are on average slightly more interesting people than non-smokers. Obviously this isn't a clear cut rule, but I think smoking is a sign of someone having a slightly more interesting back story and a personality that is a little bit more rough round the edges. Its a difficult thing to explain and I'm expecting a backlash, but its the way I perceive things.

[saratink]

teeth have got nothing to do with it, the smoke goes into your lungs. the smell fades after 5 minutes anyway. i can have a fag now, brush my teeth and you will still smell it on my breath.

[rabid]

wrong ( on the most part anyway)

I smoke a lot (20+ a day) and I know how much smokers smellI stopped for 9 months a coupla years ago, and even though I smoke now, my kids dont know, I carry a can of deo in the car, and have a can in the garage for when I go out for a fag. and the wife reminds me everytime I have one how much I stink. I also have a bottle of mouthwash in the bathroom in case sexytime happens.

I hate it, wish I could quit, but I cave so easily. call me weak (i know I am).

embassy number one by the way.

[jump]

Brush ya tounge then. Whenever we have a smoking discussion, smokers get defensive over it, like it's a baby that they've nurtured.

No worries though, it's one more step to smokers killing themselves.

[feral chile]

Brush ya tounge then. Whenever we have a smoking discussion, smokers get defensive over it, like it's a baby that they've nurtured.

No worries though, it's one more step to smokers killing themselves.

[Harsim]

I only smoke highgrade

[saratink]

Smoking is like a baby?

[rabid]

Plus it's what, 15p to Cameron every time you light up? (assuming you've bought them legally)

[Guest musiclove123]

If so what brand do you smoke?

I used to, now I only smoke on social occasions normally Marlboro's.

[grumpyhack]

I'm a smoker and to be honest yes I apologise for it sometimes. You do stink and your clothes stink.

I gave up for eight years but restarted after my dad died and my mum had to go into a care home. The pressures were on and I just turned to one of the guys at work and bummed a fag. And that was it. Back smoking.

I know it's daft. I tell my kids it's daft. I know all the arguments but still I smoke.

If you are a nicotine addict when you start to crave you dip below 'normal.' All a cigarette does is bring you back up to normal. It doesn't take you anywhere else - unlike some other substances. So you are spending good money just to stay 'normal.'

Mrs Grumpyhack hates smoking. It's a no smoking house. If I want a fag I have to go out into the garden or down to my 'Posh Shed' which is a bit like a home office in the garden where I have my computers, printers, prepare and mark courses, listen to music, converse on line etc.

I wouldn't dream of smoking in someone else's house and flound it really strange a couple of years ago when on holiday in Majorcia I was told by a restaurant owner that I could smoke at the table. But I just couldn't do it and chose to go outside and smoke in the street, even though it was raining and cold (it was December).

So, sometimes I'm an apologetic and considerate smoker. But yes, I'm still a smoker.

[Ed209]

the unfortunate truth is once a smoker, always a smoker.

one might be able to give up smoking, for short periods, long periods, or even for ever, but they'll always be a smoker.

[rabid]

the unfortunate truth is once a smoker, always a smoker.

one might be able to give up smoking, for short periods, long periods, or even for ever, but they'll always be a smoker.

[Ed209]

That's the same for any addiction. What's your point?

[5co77ie]

If so what brand do you smoke?

I used to, now I only smoke on social occasions normally Marlboro's.