Do you smoke?

[Patine]

I know, you gave that away when you said: "An old ad campaign from the '80's and early '90's".

And I made 2 quips as a response, for the price of one. I think that was an adequately portioned response.

If this were an ab lib sitcom, maybe. But, otherwise, as it stands, no...

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

If this were an ab lib sitcom, maybe. But, otherwise, as it stands, no...

It is an ad lib sit com.

 

[Patine]

It is an ad lib sit com.

Maybe to you...

 

[zxcvbob]

I smoked a pipe for a while and chewed tobacco occasionally several decades ago. I gave them up, but I didn't throw my pipes away. I will still smoke a cigar every once in a great while, like maybe 8 or 10 so far in my entire life. I don't think I've had one in about 5 or 6 years, and that one was mostly just for lighting fireworks; I just puffed it enough to keep it lit and didn't really smoke it but it smelled good.

I can't stand cigarette smoke. I don't know why cigars and pipes are different. The tobacco must be cured differently.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France 7 times using a lot of drugs.

Besides, I'm not one of those losers who divide the world into winners and losers.

He didn't win. He cheated.

 

[H4run]

He didn't win. He cheated.

Depend on the drugs, if it's enhancer or in some sport a steroid that gave him/her the age or tip the scale, then yes.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Depend on the drugs, if it's enhancer or in some sport a steroid that gave him/her the age or tip the scale, then yes.

As I said, he cheated.

 

[Hygro]

He beat all the other cheaters. Drugs aren't magic, there's still an athlete.

 

[thetrooper]

Turning a thread about smoking into a discussion about Lance Armstrong takes some dedication I guess.

 

[Ferocitus]

I don't smoke tobacco.

I do, but OTOH I...

 

[Broken_Erika]

Turning a thread about smoking into a discussion about Lance Armstrong takes some dedication I guess.

I wonder what kind of drugs Stretch Armstrong was on?

 

[Berzerker]

I swiped a pack of Tareytons from my Dad when we were in our early teens and went up the hill we'd hang at and smoked them. Ugh, didn't vomit but it wasn't a pleasant experience. None of us liked it. I didn't smoke again until I was about 20. I smoked maybe a pack or less a day for about 3 decades and quit a decade ago with the help of Chantix. Dont even get started.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I've never smoked anything, and neither should any of you.

 

[Zkribbler]

I watched my mom spend the last six years of her life in ever-increasing pain. I'll never smoke.

 

[Sarin]

Like most people, I've had an experimenting phase in high school and college. Smoked a few cigarettes and other stuff. I didn't find the sensation or stench pleasant.

The more time goes on, the more I find it repulsing.

 

[Patine]

I've never smoked anything, and neither should any of you.

I watched my mom spend the last six years of her life in ever-increasing pain. I'll never smoke.

As I said, he cheated.

My former boss at work (who retired to live in Central America late last year) said what made his quit smoking was not death or ghastly coughs, neither of which he said he was "overly," afraid. It was at his father's funeral where an older relative, or friend or associate of his father's, was trucking around an oxygen cart. THAT, he said, is made him pull out all the stops to quit. THAT, he said, scared him.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

My former boss at work (who retired to live in Central America late last year) said what made his quit smoking was not death or ghastly coughs, neither of which he said he was "overly," afraid. It was at his father's funeral where an older relative, or friend or associate of his father's, was trucking around an oxygen cart. THAT, he said, is made him pull out all the stops to quit. THAT, he said, scared him.

My dad was on oxygen. The province's rules regarding what health services low-income seniors are allowed to receive are ludicrous. They were willing to fund oxygen for him in his room. He had to buy a portable machine so he could leave his room - you know, for things like meals, physio, medical appointments, unimportant luxuries like those.

Those things are not cheap.

 

[thecrazyscot]

Purposefully making a habit of inhaling any smoke (tobacco, weed, etc) is remarkably foolish.

I briefly smoked a pipe when I was an undergrad. I regret that, but undergrads are dumb on the whole, and I suppose I could have done a lot worse than a few months of occasional pipe use for my own expression of youthful stupidity.

 

[abradley]

Used to be 2 to 3 pack a day, then they taxed it out of my money range.

 

[Berzerker]

Yup, that was a big motivator for me... The lawsuits were hitting the tobacco industry and along with taxes the price got up to around $5 a pack when I decided that was enough. I did start buying from the Indians who own a resort/casino and Firekeeper GC north of town for a few months.

Before trying Chantix I quit for about 6-10 months but I had a strange situation, I pulled a ribcage muscle and looking for painkillers w/o prescription so I used a cream called Super Blu Emu (Jeez, I hope they dont kill Emu for that). It was supposed to be a deep penetrating topical and either my ribcage healed up kind of fast or it worked, I noticed an almost immediate improvement.

But I made a mistake, the cream was so effective it got into my lungs or something under the ribcage. It did something to my taste buds, some of the food/drink I like tasted differently, and not in a good way. I tried a few remedies that had no effect so I smoked a cigarette almost as a last resort and it worked. My taste buds weren't completely restored but the improvement was amazing. So I did smoke for about a year afterward and then quit with Chantix. The problem with my taste buds didn't return.