re: Your opinion on smoking?

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It is amazing how we vilified smoking yet we promote vaping to the point that 15 year olds do it freely and adults think they can do it where ever they are. We just started the whole cycle over

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Vaping sucks, but it’s way less obnoxious to other people than cigarettes. Vape cloud > cig smoke

A it's your life tho. Do what you will.

the world was a cooler place when people smoked.

The people that regularly smoke think they’re great, probably never going to stop.

People that don’t smoke or quit think they smell like shite.


Roll credits

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A) It’s trashy to smoke
B) A Cigar here and there is classy
C) Smoke away

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all 3, and yes i do all 3.

For my line of work I have to deal with the capers a good bit. They think thry can do it anywhere and they happily throw their cartridges on the ground. They aren't much different to me

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Your opinion on smoking?

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It’s the only mistake Rush Limbaugh ever made...... and it cost him his life.

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My Father was a pipe smoker, combined with Mother's Cigarette smoke, his having been to Hiroshima after the bomb while in the Army,

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My Pop went there too, right afterwards.

Didn't smoke but later died of non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Join the Army, See the World, Meet new Isotopes.....

Die

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the world was a cooler place when people smoked.

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The problem with smoking (cigarettes) is that it usually becomes a habitual, daily, repetitive thing.

If someone says they smoke, or if someone SEES them smoke, most folks assume they smoke a number of cigarettes daily; in their car, at home, outside during a work-day smoke-break. A pack a day or so, because in reality FOR MOST, that's what it is. And to that level, it IS a stinky, nasty, expensive, dare I say it, TRASHY thing.

But here's a distinction. Smoking cigars is not the same. Other than historic folks like King Edward, Sigmund Freud or Churchill, cigar smokers aren't chain-smoking cigars on a daily basis. They are generally reserved for social occasions-- after a nice dinner, outside at an event, in a cigar bar, yada yada. It's a totally different expectation.

The same is true of drinking. There is little to no social stigma about drinking-- unless you do it every day, all day long, at all kinds of locations-- work, home, in the car. You do that, you are an ALCOHOLIC.

You have a couple of glasses of wine on a dinner date, a few beers while watching a game at home or at the bar, some cocktails at a party-- that's all cool. It's "social drinking".

But do the same occasional indulgence with a cigarette-- have one every so often (if you are allowed to) and everyone clutches their pearls, calls you a "smoker" and "trashy". It's like calling someone who has a drink on the weekend a wino or a drunkard.

Honestly wish I could still smoke without regard for my body like I did in college and soon thereafter.
Having a child made me care about how long I live a lot more, and getting into fitness really fricked it up. When I began working out I still smoked and couldn’t get on an elliptical for 10 minutes. That alone made me quit and start dipping. Quit dipping one day via a deer stand thinking session decision.

All of that said, I would love to blast a cig. But I know I would go back to a pack a day instantly. Sucks. Camel Filters are the chit