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Do you smoke?

Yes, but trying to give up
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1%
Yes, not trying to give up anytime soon
42
14%
No, but I used to
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9%
No, never have
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76%
 
Total votes : 303

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Postby Killdash » Mon Jun 05, 2017 1:12 pm

I'm a very casual smoker, and never exceed three cigarettes in a single day. If you want an origin or reason, I can just say it's for the company that I've met, and the pleasant sense of cameradie between smokers.

I don't think it's a habit you should take up, and I wouldn't say do it to be cool or such things, as for every one person that likes the look, a bunch more will consider it a deal breaker.

All that said, I have done some epic photo shoots with cigarettes. Of course, all the above items are tobacco laced. I exclude weed, and support it massively, with the requisite legal framework and studies.
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:40 pm

Ive never understood what the appeal of smoking is. Your spending money on a product that has horrible health effects and has absolutely no benefit.

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Postby The United Colonies of Earth » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:41 pm

No. It gave me asthma and killed my mother.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:43 pm

San Lumen wrote:Ive never understood what the appeal of smoking is. Your spending money on a product that has horrible health effects and has absolutely no benefit.

Smoking is cool.
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:44 pm

Ifreann wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Ive never understood what the appeal of smoking is. Your spending money on a product that has horrible health effects and has absolutely no benefit.

Smoking is cool.

No its not. There is nothing cool about it.

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:47 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Smoking is cool.

No its not. There is nothing cool about it.

That's pretty much why people smoke, though.
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:47 pm

Ifreann wrote:
San Lumen wrote:No its not. There is nothing cool about it.

That's pretty much why people smoke, though.

But it isn't cool. Tobacco has nothing but bad effects

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:50 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:That's pretty much why people smoke, though.

But it isn't cool. Tobacco has nothing but bad effects

It is cool, though. All the cool kids are doing it.
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:50 pm

Ifreann wrote:
San Lumen wrote:But it isn't cool. Tobacco has nothing but bad effects

It is cool, though. All the cool kids are doing it.

Smoking does not make one cool. What makes it cool?

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Postby Trollgaard » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:51 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It is cool, though. All the cool kids are doing it.

Smoking does not make one cool. What makes it cool?


If you have to ask then you aren't cool. 8)

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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:54 pm

Trollgaard wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Smoking does not make one cool. What makes it cool?


If you have to ask then you aren't cool. 8)

Thats not an answer. No one I know thinks smoking is cool. Does that mean no one i know is cool?

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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:55 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:It is cool, though. All the cool kids are doing it.

Smoking does not make one cool. What makes it cool?

Would the aforementioned cool kids be doing it if it wasn't cool?
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Postby San Lumen » Mon Jun 05, 2017 4:58 pm

Ifreann wrote:
San Lumen wrote:Smoking does not make one cool. What makes it cool?

Would the aforementioned cool kids be doing it if it wasn't cool?

Your not answering my question. Your just saying generic statements.

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Postby Socialist Nordia » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:01 pm

No, I never have. I don't really understand the appeal of inhaling smoke into your lungs.

I'm not the type of person to blame smokers though. It's a terrible industry, one that purposely gets its users chemically hooked on it.
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Postby Campfire Road » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:02 pm

As far as the laws in my area go, you're fine as long as you are outside or in your own house/with your landlord's okay. If the hotel permits, you can also request a smoking friendly hotel room. You're also not supposed to throw cigarette butts on the ground, but no one follows that. That's pretty much it.

I don't smoke. Every time I come around someone who is smoking at that time, I get a little nauseous. So that's pretty good motivation not to start.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:05 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Ifreann wrote:Would the aforementioned cool kids be doing it if it wasn't cool?

Your not answering my question. Your just saying generic statements.

Exactly
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Postby AiliailiA » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:39 pm

Campfire Road wrote:As far as the laws in my area go, you're fine as long as you are outside or in your own house/with your landlord's okay. If the hotel permits, you can also request a smoking friendly hotel room. You're also not supposed to throw cigarette butts on the ground, but no one follows that.


They really should. Cigarette butts are a common cause of wildfires which destroy property and endanger lives.

Even in the inner city where they're unlikely to start a fire that way, they shouldn't do it. They should develop the habit of NOT doing it, in case they're out in the countryside at a later time.

Not to mention butts are dirty and smelly.
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Postby Ethel mermania » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:47 pm

AiliAiliA wrote:
Campfire Road wrote:As far as the laws in my area go, you're fine as long as you are outside or in your own house/with your landlord's okay. If the hotel permits, you can also request a smoking friendly hotel room. You're also not supposed to throw cigarette butts on the ground, but no one follows that.


They really should. Cigarette butts are a common cause of wildfires which destroy property and endanger lives.

Even in the inner city where they're unlikely to start a fire that way, they shouldn't do it. They should develop the habit of NOT doing it, in case they're out in the countryside at a later time.

Not to mention butts are dirty and smelly.


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Postby Trollgaard » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:49 pm

San Lumen wrote:
Trollgaard wrote:
If you have to ask then you aren't cool. 8)

Thats not an answer. No one I know thinks smoking is cool. Does that mean no one i know is cool?


Yeah.

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Postby The Kreucian Empire » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:50 pm

I'm pretty all-time straight edge person and forever will with avoiding cigerattes, drugs, and alcoholic beverages.I think smoking is a gate away to early grave, which I would to live without blacken lungs and talk funny because of smoking chemicals that should never even be breathed into the human body at all, in my opinion.I'll keep to drinking tea, water, and other healthy and nonalcoholic beverages so yeah.
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Postby Apror » Mon Jun 05, 2017 5:50 pm

I get lit all the fucking time m8

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Postby Wisconsin9 » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:11 pm

Marijuana, a few times a week. You couldn't pay me to smoke tobacco, though. Shit's nasty.
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:13 pm

What do you feel when you smoke a cigarette?

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Postby Greater-Kurdistan » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:14 pm

Never smoked before in my life

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Postby Soviet Socialist and Peoples Republics » Mon Jun 05, 2017 6:17 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:What do you feel when you smoke a cigarette?

A head rush. It acts as a stimulant if you smoke less and as an relaxant if you smoke more.
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