What do you think of smokers?

[curiousunistudent]

I don't see why. There are people with BO fetishes, but that doesn't mean the average person likes it. Most people dislike the smell of cigarettes, all to varying degrees. SOME people (most notably overly defensive smokers like you) like the smell, but most don't.

I seem to have offended you a little bit last night ... And, I do apologise because I was quite drunk and I can't even remember visiting JUB. But I must agree with my original drunken post, I don't think that people who stink of BO and those who smell of smoke after having a cigarette are quite the same. Body Odor is the growth of bacteria on the body when somebody hasn't washed. The smoke that you smell on somebody after they have had a cigarette is partly made of nicotine, which is a mental stimulant ... And that goes for EVERY human being's brain. Also, nicotine is actually an insecticide. I always wondered why I didn't get bitten by mosquito's ...

 

[bankside]

"Leave me alone I don't hurt anybody else..waaaah!"

Oh really?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/...g-risks_n_938241.html?ir=Canada&ref=fb&src=sp

Employees are now prohibited from smoking during the workday. Period.

The impetus for the new rule is the recently recognized dangers of "thirdhand smoke," the gases and particles that cling to clothing, hair, furniture, walls and other surfaces long after a cigarette is stubbed out.

 

[Alan]

I saw a Canadian study that said that smoking was actually a good thing for the economy, because it killed the smokers off before they became too much of a drain on the economy.

This study was posted once on TV, and very quickly disappeared off the radar. I guess it's not politically correct.

It's funny you should say that because I myself was going to mention the fact that many smokers won't draw their state pensions because they died early because of smoking related illnesses. As did my Mother & Father.

As you all know here at JUB I'm in remission from lung cancer which was probably due to smoking (that's all the doctors said) -I smoked since I was 11 years old (that's 40 years of smoking).

Financially speaking, in the UK, tax revenue from tobacco 2010-2011 is £11.1 billion. The cost to the NHS has been estimated at between £1.7 and £5.7 billion.

On a purely financial basis the government is making a hell of a good profit from smokers especially when you factor in the savings on pensions due to early deaths.

My two sisters and four of their friends quit when I was diagnosed with cancer. My brother continues to smoke. My closest friends continue to smoke. And I breathe in the aroma second hand sometimes (with a nostalgic pleasure I must add). But I did quit.

It was hard at the time. Not so much now, it's quite easy for me not to smoke.
But I understand what a strong addiction smoking is and what a pleasure it can be.

I was always a considerate smoker. It was something I did along with other smokers and usually out of the way of non-smokers.

I always used to think of my Grandma who smoked Players Plain all her life and died in her sleep at 86. (I thought I might have inherited her lungs!). And then my sister who smoked but died in a car crash when she was 19 years old. I thought 'That's Life', 'It's the luck of the draw'. And it probably is.

I've been in remission a year now and am not the same physically after the illness and the treatment, but if ever the doctors tell me I'm a goner I will certainly be having a last Marlboro Red before I pop my clogs.

Alan x

 

[braex27]

To each his own, so long as I don't reap the benefits of secondhand smoke.

 

[metta]

- I don't like to be around people while they are smoking
(it stinks and I don't want the 2nd hand smoke)
- I don't understand why people smoke (especially young people) with all of the information out there.
- Thankfully, it is pretty rare to run into people that smoke in California.