The Smoking Thread

[Victor Von Doom]

Mmmmmm.....

God sometimes I miss smoking. To be honest---I probably would've picked up smoking again by now if it wasn't for the stupid apartment rule that you can't smoke inside. I know...weird right? If I pay rent...I should be able to smoke in my apartment.

But I understand their side of it.


Anyways.....anyone who smokes should be smoking these. No filters. Just pick an end and light.




HOT DAMN I MISS THOSE SHERMANS!

 

[xCURLYy]

I really don't like smoking and think it's a bit grim, that said a friend bought me a hecka expensive cigar when he visited me at uni, so I put it in my pocket and promptly forgot about it.

About 2 weeks later I was out for a friends birthday and our 12 hour bender had stagnated somewhat as we all just danced like **** in this club, at which point I remember that the cigar is still in my coat pocket, whip out my monster cigar as my friends and some jerks I don't know stood in awe as someone lit up the bad boy. It was rank but everyone thought I was cool and told me so.

Moral of the story:
Being cool is better than feeling good
Smoking isn't cool unless I'm the one doing it*

*Or Slash from GnR, who should be forced to smoke 24/7

 

[moonmaster]

I really don't like smoking and think it's a bit grim, that said a friend bought me a hecka expensive cigar when he visited me at uni, so I put it in my pocket and promptly forgot about it.

About 2 weeks later I was out for a friends birthday and our 12 hour bender had stagnated somewhat as we all just danced like **** in this club, at which point I remember that the cigar is still in my coat pocket, whip out my monster cigar as my friends and some jerks I don't know stood in awe as someone lit up the bad boy. It was rank but everyone thought I was cool and told me so.

Moral of the story:
Being cool is better than feeling good
Smoking isn't cool unless I'm the one doing it*

*Or Slash from GnR, who should be forced to smoke 24/7

Slash's cigarette once fell out of his mouth while he was playing a kickass guitar solo.
It fell right between his pants and his stomach, burning into his skin. However, HE KEPT PLAYING.
Because Slash is awesome like that.

When the guitar solo was over, someone rushed out on stage and said

"Hey, Slash! Let me help you with that!"

He then put another cigarette in Slash's mouth and lit it.

"Thanks a lot, man." Slash said.

I'm not sure if that last part actually happened but I'm going to assume it did.

 

[Hibiki]

7 days off the sticks and i just got a hookah two months ago.

 

[naughtyninja]

On average, I started smoking pretty late. I had a brief stint when I was 16, with Marlboro reds (yeah, the cowboy killers), dropped that in a few weeks. Three years later I picked up the habit, and haven't been able to drop it since.


I like mine menthol. Philip Morris is my usual poison, I like the longer sticks, and they don't burn up as fast as others. But on my treat-theyself days, I like picking up Dunhill Frost packs (sooooooooo metholly!) or one of those Asian fruit menthol packs (the PEEL orange flavor is totally awesome).

So in short, I have male gay taste in cigarettes, according to local cultural standards.

The family visited my dad for 2 months recently in Singapore, and good god, did I horde and treasure my packs from the Philippines like crazy. It's literally ten times the price for a pack in Singapore, and that little country of rules really does go out of its way to make the smoker feel like a diseased animal. I had to find myself in areas outlined in a yellow line in order to smoke freely, while everywhere else had just way too many no-smoking signs.

Also, the images on the packs in Singapore got ten times more gruesome from our last visit. It used to be the simple diseased lung or brain, but now it's bloody and intense cancer growths highlighted by harshly flashed photography that take up 70% of the damn pack.

My younger brother was so grossed out, he tried asking the lady behind the counter for a pack of a different design, and she laughed and said the others were even worse.

Coming back to the Philippines and smoking my lungs out was sweeeeeeeeeeet.

 

[Zombipanda]

On average, I started smoking pretty late. I had a brief stint when I was 16, with Marlboro reds (yeah, the cowboy killers), dropped that in a few weeks. Three years later I picked up the habit, and haven't been able to drop it since.


I like mine menthol. Philip Morris is my usual poison, I like the longer sticks, and they don't burn up as fast as others. But on my treat-theyself days, I like picking up Dunhill Frost packs (sooooooooo metholly!) or one of those Asian fruit menthol packs (the PEEL orange flavor is totally awesome).

So in short, I have male gay taste in cigarettes, according to local cultural standards.

The family visited my dad for 2 months recently in Singapore, and good god, did I horde and treasure my packs from the Philippines like crazy. It's literally ten times the price for a pack in Singapore, and that little country of rules really does go out of its way to make the smoker feel like a diseased animal. I had to find myself in areas outlined in a yellow line in order to smoke freely, while everywhere else had just way too many no-smoking signs.

Also, the images on the packs in Singapore got ten times more gruesome from our last visit. It used to be the simple diseased lung or brain, but now it's bloody and intense cancer growths highlighted by harshly flashed photography that take up 70% of the damn pack.

My younger brother was so grossed out, he tried asking the lady behind the counter for a pack of a different design, and she laughed and said the others were even worse.

Coming back to the Philippines and smoking my lungs out was sweeeeeeeeeeet.

Here, here. Over the course of about a month and a half, since I started smoking again, I've gone from Turkish Golds to Marlboro Light Menthols to Camel Lights to Parliament Lights. I've come a long way, baby.

 

[JonnyFreeze]

7 days off the sticks and i just got a hookah two months ago.

whats a hookah?

 

[Zombipanda]

whats a hookah?

It's this beautiful, beautiful device that's essentially a water pipe hooked up to a bunch of different nozzles so a bunch of people can be smoking at once. It was originally used for hashish, but I think a lot of people use it to smoke flavored tobacco and the like. Those people are *******.

How much did the hookah cost you, hibiki?

 

[ourchair]

whats a hookah?

Someone who gets money in exchange for sex.

 

[Planet-man]

Someone who gets money in exchange for sex.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[naughtyninja]

Here, here. Over the course of about a month and a half, since I started smoking again, I've gone from Turkish Golds to Marlboro Light Menthols to Camel Lights to Parliament Lights. I've come a long way, baby.

Liiiiiights, sweet

Someone who gets money in exchange for sex.

:roll: oh my god, you are right, your humor is pretty much the same, forum and in meatspace. except...with less children involved.

 

[Gideon Stargrave]

I dislike people who smoke. It's nothing personal against you guys, but I have terrible asthma and find myself unable to breathe when around people smoking. I ended up sick for an entire week after I went to an Arctic Monkeys concert because everyone found it necessary to be enjoying their cancer sticks.

 

[naughtyninja]

I dislike people who smoke. It's nothing personal against you guys, but I have terrible asthma and find myself unable to breathe when around people smoking. I ended up sick for an entire week after I went to an Arctic Monkeys concert because everyone found it necessary to be enjoying their cancer sticks.

Don't worry, I totally get it. Smokers are unfortunately people too...and a lot of people suck.

While I may not like being herded into specialized areas to enjoy a death stick, I do know that duh, it is harmful as second hand smoke, and can be dangerous to people like yourself.

I actually get really, really ticked off by people who smoke where they shouldn't be, and blow it into other's people's food/face/etc. I honestly can't stand the smell (which is weird, I know).

 

[SSJmole]

Anyone in the UK who smokes really hate these new pictures of rotten lungs and stuff on the back of the box? I hate them you don't get them on other products e.g a Big Mac having a picture of big fat *** on it. It's stupid and it's stuff we already know so why? It's not going to make me quit it's just annoying and is a peeve of mine right now.

 

[Dr.Strangefate]

When that happens over here in the US of A, i will officially be switching over to cigarette cases.

 

[Planet-man]

Those are "new" in the UK? We've had them for at least a decade or two here. Anyway, just because it doesn't cause you to stop doesn't mean it won't cause some people, especially when it comes to the impotence one's effect on older guys.

In terms of not having them on Big Macs and stuff I think when the legal issue went down it had something to do with cigarettes actually containing an addictive chemical, where as Big Macs just taste good.

 

[SSJmole]

Those are "new" in the UK? We've had them for at least a decade or two here. Anyway, just because it doesn't cause you to stop doesn't mean it won't cause some people, especially when it comes to the impotence one's effect on older guys.

In terms of not having them on Big Macs and stuff I think when the legal issue went down it had something to do with cigarettes actually containing an addictive chemical, where as Big Macs just taste good.

True but Caffeine is an addictive chemical so shouldn't coffee and Coca Cola come with them?

When that happens over here in the US of A, i will officially be switching over to cigarette cases.

Funny you said that i ordered one off Ebay today as I don't want to look at it

 

[ourchair]

My take on labelling cigarettes with obnoxious warnings is this:

If you're going to negatively slam it based on 'addictiveness' then you have to do that to all other 'addictive substances' in everyday objects, as Mole suggests.

If you're going to negatively slam it based on 'cancer-inducing' then that is actually more sensible, though I find it obnoxious and a little self-righteous.

I mean why don't they just put 'WARNING: This product reduces local sense of community and contribute to climate change" on automobiles?

 

[SSJmole]

My take on labelling cigarettes with obnoxious warnings is this:

If you're going to negatively slam it based on 'addictiveness' then you have to do that to all other 'addictive substances' in everyday objects, as Mole suggests.

If you're going to negatively slam it based on 'cancer-inducing' then that is actually more sensible, though I find it obnoxious and a little self-righteous.

I mean why don't they just put 'WARNING: This product reduces local sense of community and contribute to climate change" on automobiles?

Exactly.

It one thing when it was just something like :

On either side of the box. Ok the warning is a little big but so what I guess it is a dangerous product or what ever.


But this :

even if it is just on the back is IMO just going too far. They say you can get brain cancer from a mobile phone so why not just stick this on a mobile phone




It doesn't need to be done. If I'm a at friends and he doesn't smoke then I go outside to get one. Same if my niece or nephew visit my house. If i'm at mine and adult doesn't smoke I open the window and have one out the window. They make it sound like I'm breathing it in peoples faces going ":twisted: muhahaha second hand smoke."

They also act like I'm too stupid to know if I read "lung cancer" it means cancer of the lung. They feel they need a picture of a cancerous lung incase I think "oh lung cancer? Isn't that a type of puppy?" It's insulting in away. I know it causes this **** I've known before they put the big warning labels on and know now.

I choose to quit for a few reasons. Like it calms down. It makes me relax. But according to them I think smoking is going to win me a trip to disneyland or something and yes it's annoyed me to say the least these pictures on them. First the big smoking ban (including tell me if I want a ciggy it has to have 10 minutes before some someone comes to my house, like I know the exact times of everyone that comes?) now this? **** them.

 

[Planet-man]

True but Caffeine is an addictive chemical so shouldn't coffee and Coca Cola come with them?

I'm guessing they'd be eligible if there were any push for it.

Personally I'm all for slamming coffee because of the obnoxiousness of nearly everybody I know's debilitating coffee addiction. At work and school I've seen decisions being made based on "could you handle that today? I haven't had my morning coffee". It's ridiculous. If I said I couldn't do some task because I hadn't been able to get a shot of heroin for the past two days and was going through withdrawl, would I be off the hook?