Smoking

[bit_pattern]

Because it's relaxing. Screw the nannies who are desperate to ban everything that might in some way be marginally harmful.

And yes, I realise smoking is more harmful than most activities. Let me choose it all the same.

Tired of ____ing nannies everywhere.

South America is great, you can smoke absolutely anywhere (except buses and planes) and they´re frikken cheap too... So much for my lofty ideals of quitting

 

[Papa G]

More people should take up smoking. We're living too long as a nation.

Being the fatest in the world isn't working, we still have the second longest life expectancy of any country in the world. There are too many old people living far too long in this country, clogging up the health system, using up valuable tax dollars in welfare payments, getting in the way at the shops, supermarkets and on our roads, holding the country back. They really need to be culled. So my advice to the nation to further it's prosperity, is for more not less people take up smoking, because simply over eating is not working.

So smoke up for Australia's Future!!!

 

[Mr Q]

Because it's relaxing. Screw the nannies who are desperate to ban everything that might in some way be marginally harmful.

And yes, I realise smoking is more harmful than most activities. Let me choose it all the same.

Tired of ____ing nannies everywhere.

Fine, as long as your choice to smoke doesn't result in other people having no choice about the smoke around them.

That's what smoking bans are about - stopping everyone who isn't a smoker having no choice about having to deal with your cigarette smoke. You having a choice to smoke removes everyone else's right to choose not to have smoke around. Since it's one choice against another, then stopping the choice that's harmful (however marginally) would be the logical choice.

I love that I can go to the pub after work for an hour now, come home and not have to immediately have a shower and change clothes.

 

[KevinCat07]

More people should take up smoking. We're living too long as a nation.

Being the fatest in the world isn't working, we still have the second longest life expectancy of any country in the world. There are too many old people living far too long in this country, clogging up the health system, using up valuable tax dollars in welfare payments, getting in the way at the shops, supermarkets and on our roads, holding the country back. They really need to be culled. So my advice to the nation to further it's prosperity, is for more not less people take up smoking, because simply over eating is not working.

So smoke up for Australia's Future!!!

Well with the obesity results of late, one could use Troy McClures old saying "Smoke yourself thin"

 

[acker]

South America is great, you can smoke absolutely anywhere (except buses and planes) and they´re frikken cheap too... So much for my lofty ideals of quitting

Had a chew of those coca leaves yet ?

 

[Blues_Man]

People take up smoking because they are sheep, they just follow what other people do to try and fit in.

 

[vealesy]

Why is it illegal ?

To high in sugar ?

it used to be..

watch some docos on it, or learn more about it.

the guys who started making it and spreading it in the 60s, seem perfectly healthy to me. in fact i challenge u to find someone who's life it has destroyed.


its got to be the safest drug ive ever taken, when its clean.

u seriously cant compare mdma to alcohol or ciggies.

 

[vealesy]

Because the US FDA has a pathological hatred of the idea of people having fun...

exactly, imagine what would have happened to americas economy if people en masse came to the realisation that theres more to life than keeping up with the jones'.

i find it sad that the people who would most benefit from mdma are the types that 'would never do DRUGS that are ILLEGAL'

ffs, its not like u endanger people on mdma.

unless u empathy them to death.

 

[vealesy]

People take up smoking because they are sheep, they just follow what other people do to try and fit in.

wow i wish i could be like you, but that dude over ther smoking LOOKS SO MUCH COOOOOLLERR.

so uve been totally independent in thought your whole life?






ok. all hail the second coming of Jeebus.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Smoking is legal of course (as it should be) but the losers who leave their butts on the ground are lazy turds DON'T LITTER YOU PRICKS!

As for why people smoke, I went to high school in the first five years of this century and I got the impression people started for social/peer reasons. There was also a lot of bogan children at my school which probably didn't hurt the uptake levels either.

 

[Butane]

People take up smoking because they are sheep, they just follow what other people do to try and fit in.

Spoken like a true 15 year old who has regurgitated something his teacher has said.

 

[thegreenmachine]

I used to smoke and these were the reasons why:
The people who I knew and hung around with smoked and they pressured me into doing it. This was when I started high school.
It was a social thing, you hung around in your smoker's group. Back in my old high school the smoke alarms (if they had any), weren't very good in the toilets and that was one of the 1st places people used to smoke. You only got caught if you were stupid or unlucky enough to be caught by the teachers. The amount of butts that used to be down the toilets were huge and the smell was obvious even to smokers.
The only thing that stopped me was the patches. While I was hooked on the cigarettes, it must have been my age and/or the fact I had been smoking for less than 5 years that the patches actually worked.
Once again though, I got back on them when I was drinking. Virtually the same reason, it was social. Once again, the patches stopped me.
I stopped because the patches worked for me, and I'm going to do my best not to smoke again. Especially now you have to smoke outside. When you're my age, pubs and nightclubs is the thing and the last thing I ever want is to be in a situation where you go out for a smoke and being not allowed back inside for whatever reason.

 

[The J Dog]

And most smokers seem to think it's ok just to throw their butts onto the footpath. Disgusting.

I have friends and family who smoke. They hate it (now) and are embarassed that every hour or so they NEED to have a smoke, or they suffer withdrawal symptoms and aren't very nice to be around. They wish they weren't addicted but they are.

So, as soon as they finish their smoke and they've satisfied their addiction, they want to rid themselves of any attachment to what they know is a filthy and disgusting habit. They throw the butt out of sight, or throw it on the ground and stamp it out with gusto. For something they loved so much for the previous 3-4 minutes, they now can't stand to touch it. Walking with the butt to a nearby bin is too much to think about.

It's a bit like Golum in the Lord of the Rings. He hates the ring and he loves it at the same time. It's a genuine chemical addiction, so I've given up trying to get them to dispose of them thoughtfully.

The Government should ban smoking in public. It has a duty to non-smokers to do so.

 

[Ed_Gein]

I smoke.

Took it up when i gave pot away. One bad thing to another hey...

Have tried to quit several times, but it just gets too hard in the end, have given up for about a month or so on occasions.

It's at the stage that when you go out for a beer, it goes hand in hand with a smoke pretty much, couldn't see myself without a smoke when having a beer.

 

[Dogga79]

I smoke.

Took it up when i gave pot away. One bad thing to another hey...

Have tried to quit several times, but it just gets too hard in the end, have given up for about a month or so on occasions.

It's at the stage that when you go out for a beer, it goes hand in hand with a smoke pretty much, couldn't see myself without a smoke when having a beer.

I gave up using Zyban. You will feel like absolute crap for about a week on this stuff, but I found it to be very effective. You keep smoking whilst you take it. I had to basically give up drinking for about 3 months. Its hard though, two years down the track I still feel like having a cigarette if I have a beer.

Now if I could just give up horse tranqs and my midget fetish..........
Maybe just one more time and then I will give up, promise!

 

[bit_pattern]

Had a chew of those coca leaves yet ?

I have a gobful as we speak... Shit saved my life on a bus ride when we ascended about 2000 metres, was getting pins and needles, numbness, tight pressure in the chest. Had to stand up and call out to everyone on the bus if they had any, some kind old lady gave me a handful and within minutes the symptoms went away. Works miracles I tells ya. And I donçt even like itçs more well known derivatives but chewing the leaf is like a having a good coffee, just a light pick me up and makes it weasier to breathe in the thin air. Itçs a crying shame that the cocaine industry means that we cançt enjoy the pleasures of the leaf back home.

 

[bit_pattern]

Smoking is legal of course (as it should be) but the losers who leave their butts on the ground are lazy turds DON'T LITTER YOU PRICKS! r.

Fair call... I used to throw my butts anywhere but now I always make an effort to stub them out and find a bin.

 

[OzBomber]

Smoking should be banned. If cigarettes didn't exist and someone invernted them there's not a cat in hell's chance that they would be allowed to be sold.

The reason they don't quit is because the government are getting so much money from it. They don't care that people are dying from it. They just want the money.

 

[acker]

Fair call... I used to throw my butts anywhere but now I always make an effort to stub them out and find a bin.

They used to have those tin ashtrays around everywhere on the ground near doorways once.

I suppose the no smoking near buildings rule caused there demise.

 

[Blues_Man]

Spoken like a true 15 year old who has regurgitated something his teacher has said.

Spoken like a true 13 year old who is smoking because her girlfriends are .