To all smokers :)

[mygrain]

 

[Nikon Fan]

Well done Mentos!!! That is quite an accomplishment You should be very proud!!!

 

[mygrain]

cough!! cough!! I'm down to about 5 or six a day. I should just freakin quit.

 

[ehmon]

:shock: This horse has been killed by what appears to be a combination of exhaust fumes, overheating from intense heat from the sun and a car hitting him! And now a bunch of non-smokers are gathering around him taking turns kicking him!:shock:



jk jk jk dont freak out im just havin fun

 

[mentos_007]

and I feel realy good now I can recognize flavours when you smoke too much sometimes you have problems with it and you lacks taste, did you know that?!

 

[Andrea K]

:shock: This horse has been killed by what appears to be a combination of exhaust fumes, overheating from intense heat from the sun and a car hitting him! And now a bunch of non-smokers are gathering around him taking turns kicking him!:shock:



jk jk jk dont freak out im just havin fun

no i believe the horse has died from second hand smoke, cigarrete burns, and now a face is beating it with a cigarrette

 

[thebeginning]

More immune to parkinsons? but more suseptible to cancer...which is better to be more suseptible to?

Source of pleasure? so is sex...sorry but it is, and chocolat...

Authority? Try wearing a suit? or actually earning the authority?

Unwind? Read a book, watch t.v.

Give your hands something to do? Text another virgin mobile for 3p!

Help you make friends? bah...would you wanna be friends with a coughing weazing smoking yellow fingured addict?


Sorry, but smoking does NOTHING to help, and I stand by that.

exactly. nice one artemis.

 

[hobbes28]

Congrats Mentos! I can truly relate. It's been almost nine months since I've smoked...and I was a smoker of 16 years.

 

[steve817]

You are a narrow minded person (sorry don’t mean to be harsh) but the truth is that if a combustion engine hadn’t been invented then advancements in other forms of transportation would have been made.

Yeah yeah yeah and if grasshoppers had machine guns, the birds wouldn't f**k with them either.

 

[mentos_007]

Congrats Mentos! I can truly relate. It's been almost nine months since I've smoked...and I was a smoker of 16 years.

Wow congrats!!! who encouraged you to give up?? Alison? or you made it on your own??

 

[hobbes28]

I did it myself although I couldn't have done it without her support.

 

[Artemis]

Well done mentos, I dont know what its like to smoke...but I can imagine giving up is increadibly hard so im really proud of you....hehe thats another reason why I dont smoke, im not very strong minded and if I started smoking, I wouldnt give up...sooo Well done again..


p.s. Thanks The Beggining matey, hehe im just remembering making that comment

 

[FireCoral417]

Agh! Ok -- I know I'm new here and I don't want to get off on the wrong foot. I just want to bring a few things to light.

First of all, nothing personal to anyone here, but most (not all) non-smokers are equivalent to the white people who don't want the black people to sit in the front of the bus. You're hateful, prejudice, uncompromising, publicly rude and arrogant.

Secondly, nothing personal to anyone here, but most (not all) smokers are self-centered, misinformed, unhealthy, and probably a lot more negative adjectives a non-smoker can come up with.

Yes, I'm a smoker. Do I wish I was? No. Does it help when people bash me for something I have a hard time quitting? No. Why d smokers find reasons why it's ok to smoke? Because it's easier to keep smoking than to quit and we're trying to come to terms with that. If a woman was unable to have children, it's easier for her to tell people she doesn't like kids than to explain she can't have them. It's kind of the same scenario.

The reason I give why I keep smoking? I enjoy it. There're a million things that can kill you, and you may as well do what you enjoy until you die. If you enjoy having sex... fine do that til you die, even though you can get an STD that may kill you. If you enjoy racing cars, do that even though you can crash. If you enjoy eating hamburgers, eat as many as you want andhave a heart attack. If you like diving, do it as long as you realize you take a risk of getting eaten alive by a shark.

It doesn't matter what you do, it can kill you. I'm courteous enough to not smoke around non-smokers because I know it can jeopradize their lives as well. Same reason why I don't drink and drive. Same reason why I don't add salt and butter to what I'm cooking for other people.

That's all.... I know someone's gonna have something negative to say anyway though. Since smoking is *such* a crime.

 

[FireCoral417]

Tell you what my grandma is dying from throat cancer most likely because she lived with a smoker all her life, and not like I want to see her go but she has lived a long and happy life. At the very least she can say she has lived her life to the fullest.
On the other hand my dad who is very young is also dying from cancer melanoma to be precise and I do blame the lack of ozone on that. I also do blame the lack of ozone on the fact the world is heavily polluted by senseless car exhaust. I understand there needs to be fire trucks and ambulances and such, but all together the “essential” vehicles probably make up 000,000,000,000,000,001 of the total cars on earth as for the rest of em them you can say we do need cars yes, but do we need SUV’s, Hummers, and muscle cars?
Although now that I think about it I would have to agree that my analogy on cars vs cigarettes isn’t very accurate because the reality is cars are way worse. They polluting the earth faster than anything we know, they are destroying our ozone which is killing the planet through global warming, cancer, and killing off thousands of species of plant and animal life. There are wars all over the world due to the value of oil. The oil is being spilt in our oceans and making it inhospitable for fish, birds, whales…
In short cars are the direct cause of millions of people (including children) that will die at a very early age due to cancer, the world is being left a ruin, and soon it will be the direct cause of the earth warming up and completely wiping out any existence of life on earth as we know it.
Let me put forth this question, if we could go back in time 100 years and choose to eliminate either the car or the cigarette what would you choose?

*note* If you think walking past a smoker and breathing in a bit of smoke is bad try biking to work on a “SMOG WARNING” day gasping for air and only being able to inhale polluted air from thousands people sitting in cars that are most likely driving a short distance that could have walked.
*note* I am in Canada not the states and belive it or not our air quality is worse here, and also I too go over the top so dont take it too personally as well

Question for you...

Are you Vegetarian/Vegan? Because most people don't know that the farms used to raise cows, chickens and pigs for food causes more pollution than autos do...

I'm not trying to push my Vegan ways on anyone... it's just a fact that I like to point out to people concerned about the environment :heart:

Haha -- ok I just read in ur reply to someone else that you are indeed Vegetarian :thumbup: But I'm leaving this post here anyway cause I think it's important

 

[FireCoral417]

oh gosh I didn't expected that my post will live sooo long. And i started it and now I'd like to tell you something. At the beggining I told yh that I smoke and I don't mind ppl smoking. But now? We have July 2005 almost 8 months since the first post has been written in this thread. And in 2005 I smoke only 1 and a half of a cigarette!!!! I'm so proud of myself that it was only 1 and a half... not 150 or 1500!

Congrats. I've been siick for 2 weeks and haven't smoked one cigarette the whole :x I think I'm dying from lack of nicotine :lmao:

and I feel realy good now I can recognize flavours when you smoke too much sometimes you have problems with it and you lacks taste, did you know that?!

Hmm -- I dunno -- to me everything tastes worse.. I've lost 10 pounds since I've been sick cause nothing tastes good enough to eat