Have You Ever Been a Regular Smoker of Tobacco?

[The Hammer]

No, but I occasionally use cigars and pipes. Like, maybe 5 or 6 times a year?

There's something about a cigar and Scotch...

I ma partial to pipe tobacco over cigars. But the smell of a cigar shop is heavenly.

 

[Shaul]

Not yet. I sometimes think I might take up pipe smoking once I turn 90. It would be useful for keeping annoying people away.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

I ma partial to pipe tobacco over cigars. But the smell of a cigar shop is heavenly.

Same. Cherry Cavendish out of a pipe reminds me if my grandfather.

 

[Debater Slayer]

We're fortunate(in my opinion) that there's no smoking allowed in indoor public areas here. Don't have a struggle with that.

They're trying to remove public smoking period, indoors or outdoors, but I don't know if they'll be successful. It seems to be going a bit overboard to ban it outdoors; perhaps restrict it to certain areas, and ticket pollution(throwing of the butts on the ground), but to go any further seems to simply be punishing smokers.

There's chaos with indoor smoking where I live: even in many places where it is supposed to be banned--including public hospitals--many don't care and flout the laws because they know enforcement will either be lax or nonexistent. So yes, I completely agree with banning indoor smoking.

I also think it should be heavily limited outdoors when near others. People shouldn't be allowed to blow carcinogenic smoke in others' faces at, say, a bus stop or a park just because it's an outdoor setting.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I smoked a lot in the Navy. But haven't smoked cigarettes in quite a while.

After experiencing boot camp first-hand, I can say that the stress of military life is probably a major profit generator for the tobacco industry.

 

[ChristineM]

Same, to the point where I have difficulty hanging out with anyone who insists on sitting in smoking areas at restaurants, coffee shops, etc. When that happens, I often feel regrettably discouraged from hanging out with them.

I resemble that comment.

And the smell lingers, it gets in your clothes. Horrible, dirty, and seriously unhealthy habit

 

[Heyo]

Have you ever been a regular smoker of tobacco?

I haven't. I also can't handle being near cigarette smoke or the smell of it, so I suppose that has made it even easier not to want to smoke.

The poll is anonymous.

Smoking is one of the most irrational things to do. I smoke so it would be hypocritical to scold other people for being irrational. Just admit when you are.

(Iow, I'd become even more insufferable if I'd ever quit.)

 

[The Hammer]

After experiencing boot camp first-hand, I can say that the stress of military life is probably a major profit generator for the tobacco industry.

It really is. Like 60% of the military smokes tobacco. Higher while deployed.

 

[Debater Slayer]

It really is. Like 60% of the military smokes tobacco. Higher while deployed.

Yep, sounds about right. I'd say about 70% of my unit smoked.

 

[The Hammer]

Yep, sounds about right. I'd say about 70% of my unit smoked.

It was often the only way to "take a break". Edit: Interesting how similar militaries can be.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I resemble that comment.

And the smell lingers, it gets in your clothes. Horrible, dirty, and seriously unhealthy habit

Getting into a car that has been smoked in would probably be a good motivation for me to hike.

 

[ChristineM]

Getting into a car that has been smoked in would probably be a good motivation for me to hike.

Been there, done that, not nice.

 

[Debater Slayer]

It was often the only way to "take a break". Edit: Interesting how similar militaries can be.

Militaries and human nature under severe distress, I'd say.

I should message you to compare our experiences in the military sometime. I'd be quite interested to see how much of our experiences was shared.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Been there, done that, not nice.

Must be why you drive Paganis. Hard to smoke in one of those after paying a few million dollars for it.

 

[ChristineM]

Must be why you drive Paganis. Hard to smoke in one of those after paying a few million dollars for it.

Oh i wish i could drive one all the time.

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Debater Slayer]

This is exactly why I avoid indoor bars where I live.

That's one GIF you can smell. Holy moly.

 

[exchemist]

Same, to the point where I have difficulty hanging out with anyone who insists on sitting in smoking areas at restaurants, coffee shops, etc. When that happens, I often feel regrettably discouraged from hanging out with them.

I don't think anybody I know socially is a smoker. Back in the 1980s there were still one or two. And I knew a handful at work that smoked.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

There's something about @Revoltingest?

That's absolutely true.

 

[Debater Slayer]

I don't think anybody I know socially is a smoker. Back in the 1980s there were still one or two. And I knew a handful at work that smoked.

Only one of the people I regularly hang out with is a smoker, and they would avoid smoking until I got up to go for a short walk or to the restroom. They were quite respectful and understood that I really couldn't handle being around the smoke and didn't want to inhale it.

On the other hand, a former friend (from whom I distanced myself for other reasons) insisted on staying in the smoking areas whenever we hung out even when I said I actually had difficulty breathing. Needless to say, we stopped hanging out, and I didn't look back.