That's it.............

[dr nick]

smokers are the reason there is a bloody medicare levy.

these selfish bastards go smoking, knowing full well that it is unhealty, and the rest of us have to foot the health bill.

they also tend to be the morons who think it is their right to use the beach/roadways as their personal garbage bin, and think smoking in a crowded bus stop is fine by the rest of us.

One smoker dead is one less creep that we have to foot the medical bills for and clean up after.

 

[Booze Hound]

My dad used to smoke a pipe and insisted on doing it throughout journeys to South Wales visiting relatives. It was a 6 hour journey at the time (motorwy system ot flly in place) with the windows up.

I have never smoked, and never will.

My dad got gastric flu once, couldn't smoke for 6 weeks and then gave up.

There are friends of mine who smoke and there are times when I find it hard to be around them. Sometimes I might ask them to refrain. I always notice it the following day.

One very good friend finally gave up last year (very good book used). A few weeks in he told me that he finally realised what I was talking about with regard to the awful smell of cigarettes. I checked this with my boss, who probably smokes about 4 or 5 a week, and he said that most smokers don't think there is any smell at all, certainly not a bad one.

I get annoyed a work colleagues who insist they have a 'right' to smoke and, because it is rightly banned in the common areas take 'breaks' to indulge themselves. They claim it is an 'illness' or a habit. If it is the former it is curable, if the latter they should break it.

 

[xBinny]

these selfish bastards go smoking, knowing full well that it is unhealty, and the rest of us have to foot the health bill.

Never been to the doctors with a smoking related issue. Had athsma when I was younger, but it doesn't affect me now. Have a very low iron count but that's not from smoking. And then the rest of the time I'm at the osteopaths, or chiropractors, so that's not from smoking. Therefore, think it's a bit harsh to blame the medicare levy entirely on smokers!

In regards to the yellow teeth thing.... I don't think I've been smoking long enough to have gross yellow teeth. Plus my lower teeth are already slightly stained due to the amount of medicine shoved into me as a kid (low immune system).

My boyfriend hates the fact that they have smokos at his work, and he doesn't smoke. But now he just takes a snack with him, and goes out when everyone else does. I try not to take breaks at work. If I absolutely crack it with someone, I will go and have a coffee and a smoke, but take the time out of my lunch break, so now extra time taken.

Everyone tells me I'm a "considerate smoker" (stop laughing, I'm serious... that's what they tell me), as I'll try not to smoke around the non-smokers, or if I HAVE to have one, then I stand back out of the group to do so. I'll be even more considerate soon when I give up!

One very good friend finally gave up last year (very good book used).

Do you know what book it was? I want all the back up I can get to kick this habit. Ta.

 

[Destructive]

I have smoked a little over the years, but I have always stopped. I only smoke now when someone offers me a smoke, but that hardly happens.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Re: Re: Re: Re: That's it.............

Originally posted by Katthawk
Oh very classy way of putting it

Be thankful u aren't the girlfriend

Do u think darky would give up drinking if i told him to hmm?

 

[BomberGal]

I don't smoke. I've never even tried it, and probably have no intention of it. I have a lot against it. No-one in my family smokes, except one who married in recently, so I never grew up in an environment with smoke, except when I go out. When I go to parties and stuff, all my friends - well actually my entire class - bar two plus myself, are party/casual smokers, so I'm used to being surrounded by smoke at parties and so forth. Even at lunchtimes, sometimes when I go down the street to get lunch, if I go with a couple of friends, they stop and have a smoke. (These couple are the ones who smoke regularly.)

If I'm going out, people smoking generally doesn't bother me, because I'm usually in places that smokers are allowed. So if they are allowed there, then fair enough. It doesn't stop me going anywhere either, I just put up with it. I hate it, but I'm tolerant!

I don't want to smoke purely and simply because of the damage it does. Some people think I must have loved someone who died from smoking-relating causes, but this isn't the case, this has never happened. I just think it's disgusting that people can smoke, when they know that it's killing them. The statistics are really horrifying, like the amount of deaths per year of smokers, the tar breathed into a smoker's lungs per year, the money they spend (my God I could think of some things to do with the money they waste), and the people that die per year from passive smoking, which is the worst statistic of the lot, as it's a considerable number. I actually don't mind the smell, unless it's that stale smell when it's been hanging around for awhile.

What I really loathe is people breathing it in my face. If I'm with friends who smoke, most of them know I don't like it and make sure they don't blow the stuff directly at me, but there are a couple who do it just to **** me, and people who don't know I don't like it don't take any care either. So I usually let them know, or gesture or something. What I do find is that some people are overly sensitive with me, like if we're out and they are obviously going to smoke, they ask me if I mind anyway. If it is a smoking environment, then I don't see why they ask. I guess asking if I mind isn't so bad, but there are people that go on and on with, "Are you sure? Really, I won't if you don't want me to!" or "I won't smoke when you're here..." etc...When they say that, perhaps I should just say "YEAH I BLOODY WELL MIND, I HATE THE DAMN STUFF, I'M GONNA TAKE IT OFF YOU AND THROW IT AWAY!" But I'm too nice People don't have to be that cautious to me about it, I can cope with it!

With my friends who smoke, I don't really like the fact that they smoke, since I'm against it, but really it's their decision. I don't like seeing the people I love doing that damage to themselves, but what can I do? Most of them smoke, so I'm really the minority. A lot of people I know have tried to quit, generally using patches, but it never works. The only one who was ever successful was the one who became pregnant. And I wish my aunt would stop, I do tell her off sometimes light heartedly, because she's got a one year old daughter and I'd hate to see anything happen to either of them.

So, in conclusion: DEATH TO ALL SMOKERS! Sorry. Not really, a lot of people I love smoke. Sometimes I wish a lot of smokers would get a wake-up call though. I don't see why one would want to smoke, but...*shrugs*

 

[dancingdoggie17]

my mum's a smoker, and so are a few of my friends. i'm not.

i just think it's so stupid that these people at school want to be just like my mum! it's not cool when you're 45 and just smoke cos u can't remember when you didn't!

there's all these stats saying that people whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke. not for me!

 

[BomberGal]

Originally posted by dancingdoggie17

there's all these stats saying that people whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke. not for me!

And they are so true. Of all my friends who smoke, just about all their parents do as well, and the few of us that don't, our parents do not smoke. What's stupid is that they are usually like "I'll smoke, it won't do me any damage, look at my parents - they are OK!" Duh.

 

[Damp Squarie]

Originally posted by nicko18
smokers are the reason there is a bloody medicare levy.

these selfish bastards go smoking, knowing full well that it is unhealty, and the rest of us have to foot the health bill.

they also tend to be the morons who think it is their right to use the beach/roadways as their personal garbage bin, and think smoking in a crowded bus stop is fine by the rest of us.

One smoker dead is one less creep that we have to foot the medical bills for and clean up after.

so there!!
You sound like a reformed smoker of nickeighteen

 

[daicos4ever]

Most people experiment when they're growing up. Cigarettes are the most easily attainable 'drugs' to get your hands onto, thus it's easy for youngsters to 'try' them. Most don't like it. Some do, and it becomes a social thing. Not few but not many go on to became 'serious' smokers. But I think you'll find there are more social smokers out their than serious smokers.

I smoke, I've cut back heaps recently when not in a social enviroment, but once I'm in a pub or bar or similar, I scab a smoke off someone, then I go buy my own pack. It's probably more habit when I go out, but when I'm not, say at Uni or home, I can go hours without getting a craving.

At the moment I'm content that I've gone from a near pack a day smoker to less than ten a day, on average. But I'm not going to quit on the basis of people telling me to. That just gives me the sh*ts. I'll quit on my own accord.

 

[red+black]

i won't rant like my ol pal Nicko, because xBinny didn't want any death threat type posts. She knows my opinion quite clearly anyway.

i am 29 now, but let me quickly explain my choices in the last 15 or so years and see where or where i could have been influenced to start smoking. (ps. i have never smoked)

i never hung around the kids at school that smoked.
i never hung around workplace tea-rooms where people were allowed to smoke.
i never hung around outside workplaces where colleagues would smoke.
i'm not much of a raver/clubber.
i never go out with a girl that smokes.
i never forge real friendships or relationships with smokers. i actively never let anything progress with a smoker.

from a family perspective i'm an only child. my dad does not smoke but my mum does. believe me, her smoking has been the biggest issue between us our whole lives.

so from what i hear, people say that family, friends, colleagues etc got them into smoking. but we all make choices, and i guess i have ensured that i never get caught up in that environment.

if you quit, why then hang around people or environments that you know are likely to get you hooked again? you may have made a bad choice once. learn from it and stop the cycle.

 

[red+black]

Originally posted by nicko18
they also tend to be the morons who think it is their right to use the beach/roadways as their personal garbage bin, and think smoking in a crowded bus stop is fine by the rest of us.

i read somewhere that cigarette butts account for over half of all garbage. it's scary when i think of how many cigarettes are made each day around the world, and how many of them get smoked every day. scary.

 

[Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk]

Originally posted by red+black
i won't rant like my ol pal Nicko, because xBinny didn't want any death threat type posts. She knows my opinion quite clearly anyway.

i am 29 now, but let me quickly explain my choices in the last 15 or so years and see where or where i could have been influenced to start smoking. (ps. i have never smoked)

i never hung around the kids at school that smoked.
i never hung around workplace tea-rooms where people were allowed to smoke.
i never hung around outside workplaces where colleagues would smoke.
i'm not much of a raver/clubber.
i never go out with a girl that smokes.
i never forge real friendships or relationships with smokers. i actively never let anything progress with a smoker.

from a family perspective i'm an only child. my dad does not smoke but my mum does. believe me, her smoking has been the biggest issue between us our whole lives.

so from what i hear, people say that family, friends, colleagues etc got them into smoking. but we all make choices, and i guess i have ensured that i never get caught up in that environment.

if you quit, why then hang around people or environments that you know are likely to get you hooked again? you may have made a bad choice once. learn from it and stop the cycle.

r u a jehovas whitness by any chance?

 

[Port1978]

I don't smoke & would never take it up. It's a disgusting habit that can cause all sorts of problems. I have to see quite a few people with lung cancer & have to do bone scans on them to make sure it hasn't spread into their bones (most of the time it has). Anyone who takes up smoking knowing all the risks is stupid.

 

[red+black]

Originally posted by Spidergirl~RiCkChiCk
r u a jehovas whitness by any chance?

God no (and I didn't say that with any religious overtone either)

anyway, did u mean a Jehova's Whiteness? Or a Jehovah's Witness?

 

[xBinny]

there's all these stats saying that people whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke. not for me!

Neither of my parents smoke. My Mum's very disturbed by my habit, and doesn't understand how someone (me) so sporty can smoke. The only person in my family that has ever smoked was my Pop, and now there's me and my sister.

if you quit, why then hang around people or environments that you know are likely to get you hooked again? you may have made a bad choice once. learn from it and stop the cycle.

When I quit, I can't just turn around to half of my friends and tell them I'm banning my friendship with them because of their smoking. And yes, not going to the pub on Thursday and the weekend would help, but then I've got all my sporting commitments, where a huge majority will be lighting up around me anyway. It's easy in theory, but so much harder in practice.

DEATH TO ALL SMOKERS!

Oh that's it! Where's Bluey when I need him? te!he!