Do you smoke?

[worm]

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

Edited February 13, 2011 by worm

[Matticus]

i smoked for 7 years. have given up for the last 7 weeks. went cold turkey. found it easy but been feeling it the last few days.

I usually smoked roll ups, golden virginia, slim filters and green rizla. but id sometimes smoke Lucky Strikes as a treat.

god i miss it.

I have nothing against smokers, its personal choice. I don't understand the hostilaty towards smokers. People argue oh they cost the tax payer millions of pounds a year. But so do fat people, yet people don't go up to fat people in the street and give them a piece of thier mind.

Edited February 13, 2011 by Matticus

[Matticus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2wST3eLBg

[BlackHole2006]

Heres me having a bit of a puff in my hometown:

[Matticus]

if he can smoke then im allowed to as well.

[greenfairy43]

I gave up very nearly 11 years ago. I know I can never ever have a single puff on a cigarette again, because I know that once I have that one I will succumb ("I've had one puff, another won't matter. I've has a couple of puffs, half a fag won't matter. I've had half a fag, I may as well have a whole one...." and so on.) That's just me & I'm a real all or nothing person.

I see myself as a smoking version of an alcoholic. As has been said already, I will always be a smoker, it's just that I don't smoke any more.

[worm]

It's not enjoyment we get from smoking, it's relief from a craving. We just think we enjoy it because it temporarily makes that craving go away.

[grumpyhack]

The one thing that's worse than being a smoker is being a littering smoker. I'll never drop my butts but always put them in an airtight container till I can find a litter bin - that's something that comes from doing festival litter picks. But I hate the politically correct councils that think by providing ash trays/places to throw away butts they are somehow condoning smoking.

At St David's Hall, a council owned concert hall in Cardiff, the interval comes, the smokers pile out onto the pavement for a nicotine fix, but there are no bins so they end up dropping fag ends on the pavement.

After the concerts the staff clean up and probably complain about the littering smokers. Ashtrays won't stop people smoking but they might stop people littering.

[Matticus]

being somone who quit smoking, when do you think you can say to someone when they ask " do you smoke?" you can respond with "no"?

I mean in the sense that i can think of myself as a smoker whos trying to quit, and has gone 7 weeks without smoking. Or i have passed into being a non smoker and am not someone "giving up"

[greenfairy43]

being somone who quit smoking, when do you think you can say to someone when they ask " do you smoke?" you can respond with "no"?

I mean in the sense that i can think of myself as a smoker whos trying to quit, and has gone 7 weeks without smoking. Or i have passed into being a non smoker and am not someone "giving up"

[worm]

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.

[worm]

being somone who quit smoking, when do you think you can say to someone when they ask " do you smoke?" you can respond with "no"?

Edited February 13, 2011 by worm

[brighteyes]

Smoking *is* cool .... fact

[rabid]

alright ... geez. Just saying. Some people are lucky enough to have never been afflicted by an addiction

sorry for posting

[Ed209]

Only smokers think that smoking is cool, which makes it incredibly uncool!

Edited February 13, 2011 by Ed209

[jump]

Bollocks.

They can stipulate the type of person that they require for their job. For example, people working for the IR are not allowed to be associated with political groups and people working for certain schools are not allowed to smoke.

Edited February 13, 2011 by jump

[markeee]

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.

[worm]

It's illegal for an employer to ask someone if they smoke as it comes under discrimination.

[bunique]

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

[bunique]

So you're saying that in the example of a school teacher, they can't be sacked for smoking around children?

[worm]

Not being allowed to smoke on site is different to smoking around children First school I worked in had a smoking room just off the staff room. The second school we just drove to the car park of my flat and smoked there instead!

[saratink]

Don't go to their house! Why shouldn't someone be able to smoke in the comfort of their own home without a guest whining about it?

[rabid]

Don't go to their house! Why shouldn't someone be able to smoke in the comfort of their own home without a guest whining about it?

[bunique]

Less of the patronising eye whirls please.

I phrased it as I did because my good friend was sacked as a school teacher because he was caught smoking during his break. I therefore assume that he was officially sacked for other reasons.

[bunique]

Guest is the operative word there. Maybe I was just brought up better.