Smoking

[VanC]

Just curious. Smoking only. If you chew, count that as a no.

 

[curtis]

I was a very heavy smoker for most of my life, i was up to 3 packs a day when i quit 10 years ago. I have friends that smoke that come over to visit and i get them a ash tray. Being around people that smoke does not bother me at all.

 

[AudieWyoming]

Trick question! Everyone has smoked something at least once in their life. I lied and said never because the longest I ever smoked was a week or 10 days when I was 13 or 14, hanging around the custom combiners at wheat harvest. @ :cowboy: :dunce: :lol2: :!:

 

[john250]

Yes. Marlboro Red, soft pack please.

I raised tobacco until '04, so I'm interested in the subject going way back.

Did you know that King James (of Bible fame) was the first anti smoking zealot?

The ancient S American natives would inhale the smoke until they were near comatose, like you felt when you had your first cigarette.

The habit is so alluring that it spread worldwide after the Americas were explored. Governments have tried to ban it, but politicians are weak in every era and they always give in to the money. That, and bans have been notably unsuccessful. When the Ayatollah took over in Iran, Islamic law took effect and tobacco was banned. The Wall St Journal reported that tobacco companies found the decrease in sales to Iran was closely offset by an increase in sales to countries which bordered Iran.

To sum up, Government has long railed against tobacco, and has always taxed tobacco.

The mandate that you can't smoke a legal cigarette in a public place just amazes me. Everyone in that bar is smoking. They come there to have a beer and a smoke with friends. It is a ritual which goes back millenia, and the legislature won't stop it.
There are many places which advertise
'tobacco free" around here, and I live in an area where the smoking rate is probably 30% of adults. It isn't hard to find a non-smoking bar/restaurant if you want one.

The trouble is--all the "fun" places to go are the places which allow smoking. Every failing restaurant which is "non smoking" is hoping the city or the state adopts a No smoking law. That will "level the playing field" and maybe some of the "no smoking" places can compete. If I am too cynical, I apologize.

I'm not a denier, the damn stuff causes health problems and I wouldn't advise anyone to smoke. I used to be in the business, but I don't get a nickle from it now.

Stepping down--sorry for the rant.

 

[VanC]

Trick question! Everyone has smoked something at least once in their life. I lied and said never because the longest I ever smoked was a week or 10 days when I was 13 or 14, hanging around the custom combiners at wheat harvest. @ :cowboy: :dunce: :lol2: :!:

Yeah, "never" might be too strong a word. Everyone can make their own decision whether they consider themselves a smoker or not. In a case like yours, I'd say you're a definite "no".

 

[kerley]

When I was in Basic Training [USArmy] the drill sargent would give us a break and say "Smoke em if you got em, if not bumb one". Thats when I started smoking. After returning home from Nam, I went to the State Fair. The American Cancer Society had a booth and exhibit. The exhibit was a five gallon glass jug filled with Cotton. There was an apparatus connected to the jug which filtered nicotine from the cigaret smoke. That was one of the nastiest things I have ever saw, that's the day I quit smoking.

 

[rockridgecattle]

Trick question! Everyone has smoked something at least once in their life. I lied and said never because the longest I ever smoked was a week or 10 days when I was 13 or 14, hanging around the custom combiners at wheat harvest. @ :cowboy: :dunce: :lol2: :!:

Never...not once...not even a puff...or a drag...thought it looked to be a drag...I grew up in a smoking home, spent alot of my childhood sick and unable to breathe because of serious athsma. The thought of smoking anything, to me was and is crazier than...well i do not know what. The ability to breathe is not something i take for granted.

 

[Jalopy]

I used to smoke a pipe and cigars. Never cared for cigarettes at all. I quit one day in February of 1983 when I was carrying two buckets of feed doing chores and my pipe went out. I stopped to light it and realized I was spending more time on the habit than the chores so I quit. Some say that smoking a pipe or cigar is not as bad as cigarettes when it comes to breaking the habit, I do not know. But breaking any habit is difficult but it may be that the addiction to nicotine is not as severe with a pipe as as it is with a cigarette. But I am glad I quit.

 

[AudieWyoming]

My friend at the dairy says: "Hiring a smoker is the same as hiring a one arm man, only they stink the vehicles up." @

 

[TexasBred]

As said before "I'm a smoker" but have no problems keeping the no smoking rules wherever I go...what really gets my goat is that all of us smokers are not smoking...trying to be good citizens...but ever "dipper" and "chewer" in the area has a spit cup with a nasty ass napkin in it enjoying his habit and nobody says a word.I see a lot of this at HS football games where the sign on the gate actually says "Tobacco Free Zone".

 

[dun]

As said before "I'm a smoker" but have no problems keeping the no smoking rules wherever I go...what really gets my goat is that all of us smokers are not smoking...trying to be good citizens...but ever "dipper" and "chewer" in the area has a spit cup with a nasty ass napkin in it enjoying his habit and nobody says a word.I see a lot of this at HS football games where the sign on the gate actually says "Tobacco Free Zone".

There's a difference. Smoking is using tobacco, the other is "chew", must be tobacco free like gum

 

[Alan]

Does pot count? Remember some of us grew up in the late 60's and 70's......Oh but did I inhale?? :lol2: :lol2: :cowboy:

Alan

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

Does pot count? Remember some of us grew up in the late 60's and 70's......Oh but did I inhale?? :lol2: :lol2: :cowboy:

Alan

Dang! No fun if you/we/us didn't inhale...lol.

No...Pot wasn't tobacco or smoking...it was medication therapy...lol.

 

[peg4x4]

Trick question! Everyone has smoked something at least once in their life. I lied and said never because the longest I ever smoked was a week or 10 days when I was 13 or 14, hanging around the custom combiners at wheat harvest. @ :cowboy: :dunce: :lol2: :!:

No,when I said I never smoked I meant never smoked. Not once,not ever,not one day..never dipped either. Oh,the same goes for strong drink................................. However,I cuss a little.

 

[rkm]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

 

[Ryder]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

Well said. That is the point of the whole thing.

 

[Alan]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

Well said. That is the point of the whole thing.

How about your employees rights and don't throw out the "they don't have to work there stuff". In this economy anybody with a job needs to hang on to it.... really how hard is it to step out the door and light up? This is not about the gov telling you what to do as much as everyone having equal rights..... I don't want to deal with anyones stinky and "maybe" harmful second hand smoke.

JMO,
Alan

 

[rocket2222]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

Well said. That is the point of the whole thing.

How about your employees rights and don't throw out the "they don't have to work there stuff". In this economy anybody with a job needs to hang on to it.... really how hard is it to step out the door and light up? This is not about the gov telling you what to do as much as everyone having equal rights..... I don't want to deal with anyones stinky and "maybe" harmful second hand smoke.

JMO,
Alan

It still should be up to the owner of the business to make that decision, not the government. If they spent the time and money into taking care of the country, instead of sticking their noses where it don't belong, finding a job might have been a little easier, and we ( the US ) might not be broke.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

Well said. That is the point of the whole thing.

How about your employees rights and don't throw out the "they don't have to work there stuff". In this economy anybody with a job needs to hang on to it.... really how hard is it to step out the door and light up? This is not about the gov telling you what to do as much as everyone having equal rights..... I don't want to deal with anyones stinky and "maybe" harmful second hand smoke.

JMO,
Alan

They had me booked for an event at a smoke free hotel. I declined once I got the details. The organization called to see if I had scheduling conflicts. I told them that I needed some place to go smoke once in a while besides driving off of the premises. They moved the entire conference. I got to feeling really important. Then I found out I was one of about a dozen who had declined.

 

[john250]

I never smoked. I was never around it until I was in high school. Never had the desire. I could never stand the smell. But I sure wouldn't want the government telling me that i couldn't let someone smoke in my place of business.

Well said. That is the point of the whole thing.

How about your employees rights and don't throw out the "they don't have to work there stuff". In this economy anybody with a job needs to hang on to it.... really how hard is it to step out the door and light up? This is not about the gov telling you what to do as much as everyone having equal rights..... I don't want to deal with anyones stinky and "maybe" harmful second hand smoke.

JMO,
Alan

The poster child for this years attempt to ban smoking statewide was a woman who took a job in a casino, despite her history of asthma and lung problems. She doesn't want to quit her job, even though she hired on knowing casinos are the smokiest places around. She wants the state to make her employer bow to her. I really do not sympathize.