tomwaits
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I had a friend that smoked lucky strike filterless and had a homeless guy complain when he had asked for a smoke and my friend offered him one.
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I had an Aunt and Uncle who smoked Lucky Strikes. When I was a kid our next door neighbor smoked Picayunes. Those were brutal. They has twice the tar and nicotine of a Marlboro red. You could smell them the second he stepped out of the house. How he made it to 90,I'll never know. Don't let the extra mild fool you. Trust me, they were far from it.I had a friend that smoked lucky strike filterless and had a homeless guy complain when he had asked for a smoke and my friend offered him one.
Same friend occasionally had those too! I remember us joking about the "extra mild" on the package.I had an Aunt and Uncle who smoked Lucky Strikes. When I was a kid our next door neighbor smoked Picayunes. Those were brutal. They has twice the tar and nicotine of a Marlboro red. You could smell them the second he stepped out of the house. How he made it to 90,I'll never know. Don't let the extra mild fool you. Trust me, they were far from it.
Never started smoking and I think anyone my age or younger who did is crazy. I grew up with 2 parents who were chain smokers/nicotine addicts. Their behavior was no different from any other addict. They were wonderful parents with a problem they could not manage. Cigarettes were everywhere in our house and cars.Most of this thread discusses the menthol cigarette side of this issue but didn't this directive also ban all "flavored" cigars too ? I have never smoked but I see entire racks of those in the tobacco section of convenience stores.
Not sure if that stuff is on the chopping block too, but seeing it is flavored tobacco product, it is likely it is, or will be targeted soon also.Don’t touch my Wintergreen Copenhagen
Yeah, I was in Oakland a couple of years ago and none of the stores carried it. I was told they couldn’t sell flavored tobacco and I would have to go to a smoke shop.Not sure if that stuff is on the chopping block too, but seeing it is flavored tobacco product, it is likely it is, or will be targeted soon also.
I've been smoking for 25 years.
In college, I was laying across the bed watching one of my friends smoke a cigarette.
The face he made when inhaling and the slow, deliberate way he exhaled - I asked to try it. I guess I wanted to see if I'd receive that same level of (apparent) satisfaction.
I liked the way it felt spreading through my chest. And the light-headedness. It was exactly how I wanted to feel.
I told myself that I'd smoke for 10 years then quit cold turkey.
"Ten years is long enough to do anything."
January 2006 is when I was supposed to stop. But Katrina had rolled through a few months prior and I was in no condition to be giving up vices.
I didn't set anymore timelines and I've never had an actual desire to quit. I'm not real big on surviving/living. I just want to be able to glean small instances of peace while I'm here, however long that might be.
Being able to stop whatever it is I'm doing and smoke... It's my pause button. It's the tiniest bit of peace I can find. I can't imagine going through this life with no pause button.
It's no lie that smoking is very satisfying on an emotional level. It's the whole reason that it was made so popular in the movies & not just tobacco companies trying to peddle their wares. When it makes you feel good plus the added bonus of the chemical buzz you get from it, it makes it all that much more difficult to stop. I think I've told this before, but my mom would often tell me that smoking was by far the most difficult vice to give up including alcohol and illegal drugs.I've been smoking for 25 years.
In college, I was laying across the bed watching one of my friends smoke a cigarette.
The face he made when inhaling and the slow, deliberate way he exhaled - I asked to try it. I guess I wanted to see if I'd receive that same level of (apparent) satisfaction.
I liked the way it felt spreading through my chest. And the light-headedness. It was exactly how I wanted to feel.
I told myself that I'd smoke for 10 years then quit cold turkey.
"Ten years is long enough to do anything."
January 2006 is when I was supposed to stop. But Katrina had rolled through a few months prior and I was in no condition to be giving up vices.
I didn't set anymore timelines and I've never had an actual desire to quit. I'm not real big on surviving/living. I just want to be able to glean small instances of peace while I'm here, however long that might be.
Being able to stop whatever it is I'm doing and smoke... It's my pause button. It's the tiniest bit of peace I can find. I can't imagine going through this life with no pause button.
I loved smoking. The ritual of it. The peace of the alone time.
However, I did not enjoy waking up and coughing up a lung. And, while you may care more about enjoying life than how long it lasts, I can tell you that lung cancer is a really terrible way to die.
It's no lie that smoking is very satisfying on an emotional level. It's the whole reason that it was made so popular in the movies & not just tobacco companies trying to peddle their wares. When it makes you feel good plus the added bonus of the chemical buzz you get from it, it makes it all that much more difficult to stop. I think I've told this before, but my mom would often tell me that smoking was by far the most difficult vice to give up including alcohol and illegal drugs.