Do you still smoke cigarettes?

[Hadron]

The ban on smoking in public buildings has made a huge difference. These days when someone comes into a room or gets on a train with their cloths stinking of tobacco smoke it's really noticable, whereas before it was an everyday annoyance.

I've never smoked because I suffered from asthma as a child so already knew what it was like to be short of breath all of the time

 

[Milo Willamson]

Well, do yah?

Saw my father died in front of me, in the hospital, he never smoked, it was crop dust that caused it.

 

[dan330]

and then there is die-ing from lead poison..
the kind that flys at you at the speed of sound.

 

[MoodyBlues]

Well, do yah?

My mother was a light smoker--one or two cigarettes per day--and never around us kids. When I became aware of the Surgeon General's warning, I pestered...and pestered! my mom to quit, telling her she'd get cancer if she didn't. To shut me up, she quit.

Fast forward to 16. Knowing full well how stupid and dangerous it was, I started smoking; all my friends were, too.

I smoked for about a year, never more than half a pack per day. Then I wanted to have a baby. (It's cool--I was married.) I not only quit cold-turkey, but we banned smoking in our house and cars. I didn't want a potential baby to be exposed to second-hand smoke.

When I was a pre-med student, I showed my daughter autopsy photos of cancer-ridden, black lungs and healthy, pink lungs, along with a stern warning that if she smoked, THAT (the cancerous lungs) is what would happen. She's a nonsmoker, married to a nonsmoker, raising two anti-smoking boys.

 

[olbriar]

My wife and I both smoke. I my pipe and she her cigs. We raised four children all non smokers. I think they had enough of the nasty habit growing up. My mother died before she turned forty due to a smoking related cancer.

 

[Milo Willamson]

My mother was a light smoker--one or two cigarettes per day--and never around us kids. When I became aware of the Surgeon General's warning, I pestered...and pestered! my mom to quit, telling her she'd get cancer if she didn't. To shut me up, she quit.

Fast forward to 16. Knowing full well how stupid and dangerous it was, I started smoking; all my friends were, too.

I smoked for about a year, never more than half a pack per day. Then I wanted to have a baby. (It's cool--I was married.) I not only quit cold-turkey, but we banned smoking in our house and cars. I didn't want a potential baby to be exposed to second-hand smoke.

When I was a pre-med student, I showed my daughter autopsy photos of cancer-ridden, black lungs and healthy, pink lungs, along with a stern warning that if she smoked, THAT (the cancerous lungs) is what would happen. She's a nonsmoker, married to a nonsmoker, raising two anti-smoking boys.

Wow girl you get more amazing, a Lunix worker, and a medic Is there anything you cannot do

 

[MoodyBlues]

Wow girl you get more amazing, a Lunix worker, and a medic Is there anything you cannot do

Ha ha! I grew up intending to be a physician, like my uncle. I was THIS CLOSE to starting medical school when fate intervened.

I was burned out from studying, raising a child, working, and doing volunteer work, so I decided to take some time off from school. Then an opportunity fell in my lap at the furniture store chain where I'd been working (doing data entry) while in college.

I taught myself UNIX and database programming and administration, transitioned them off their IBM System/3 mainframes, and onto a multiuser, multi-location UNIX system. I did all the programming and all the hardware/peripherals installation and maintenance; within a year, I had everything but payroll on the new system: inventory, receivables, payables, sales, general ledger, etc.

And I loved it! I fell in love with the power and gracefulness of UNIX at the command line...and really didn't want to stop.

My 'little time off' from school kept getting longer, until I finally said out loud, 'this is now my career.' So I don't have the 'MD' after my name that I'd always planned--and spent 5 years working toward in college--but I'm okay with that.

For the most part I have no regrets; it's only when something major comes up, like my brain tumor, that I wish I had my MD so I could understand the situation at a deeper level, and ask questions better, with more insight.

 

[lunatic59]

My mother died before she turned forty due to a smoking related cancer.

Sorry, OB.

My grandmother smoked 2 packs of unfiltered Camel's a day and later switch to filtered Tarytons for 40 years or so. Never exercised, drank coffee all day but never alcohol. She lived to be 92 and was sharp as a tack up to the last day.. My mother never smoked, drank infrequently and was active until the end. She died of a massive heart attack at 74. You just never know sometimes.

 

[Milo Willamson]

Ha ha! I grew up intending to be a physician, like my uncle. I was THIS CLOSE to starting medical school when fate intervened.

I was burned out from studying, raising a child, working, and doing volunteer work, so I decided to take some time off from school. Then an opportunity fell in my lap at the furniture store chain where I'd been working (doing data entry) while in college.

I taught myself UNIX and database programming and administration, transitioned them off their IBM System/3 mainframes, and onto a multiuser, multi-location UNIX system. I did all the programming and all the hardware/peripherals installation and maintenance; within a year, I had everything but payroll on the new system: inventory, receivables, payables, sales, general ledger, etc.

And I loved it! I fell in love with the power and gracefulness of UNIX at the command line...and really didn't want to stop.

My 'little time off' from school kept getting longer, until I finally said out loud, 'this is now my career.' So I don't have the 'MD' after my name that I'd always planned--and spent 5 years working toward in college--but I'm okay with that.

For the most part I have no regrets; it's only when something major comes up, like my brain tumor, that I wish I had my MD so I could understand the situation at a deeper level, and ask questions better, with more insight.

We all couldbe this close of reaching towards our own dreams, yet something always makes us shift back and forth.

 

[Courland]

No, and I will never be! Smoking cigarettes is gross, don't you think so? I mean, it was cool a hundred years ago, but if you think a little. All that smell, yellow teeth, lung cancer, meh, i don't want all of that! The only thing that I can accept is vaping! Even though I know that it’s also not that healthy, you have a variety of flavors that are not stinky, more than that, combined with a good https://pipesarsenal.com/at254-5pk-kanger-ssocc-clapton-atomizer-coils-0-5ohm/ coil you will be fascinated that after some puffs, you will smell fresh and tasty. It’s like a fragrance, with a little bit of nicotine.

 

[no one]

Never saw the attraction. Had a single drag in my teens, it was disgusting.

 

[Bearsyzf]

I used to smoke Cigars and spent a lot of money on ThompsonCigars.com, but now it's only my Marlboro 27's 100.

 

[Member 1919122]

My whole family were a group of chainsmokers, who all have died because of smoking...
I never saw the attraction of it, I even tried smoking in high school but threw it away after 1 or 2....
I'm still here, healthy at 58....

 

[no one]

For those that want to quit, I know a guy who has a program that has a 100% success rate. It's like a 72 hour program. But there hasn't been single person who even lasted 48 hours.