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| A Smoking Lifespan Calculator |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|11:07 am] |
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The tag line to this group "Yes I know it's going to kill me...." is totally cool.
Smoking is a calculated risk that I'm willing to venture for the pleasure return.
I left a comment on one of Leather Lung's super-duper writing pieces five down from this one "Peer Pressure" regarding smoking and life expectancy. I stand by what I said there.
I've been carrying around the notion in my head for years now that smoking cuts ten years off your life. That never seemed very real to me though from real life observations.
If found a life expectancy calculator on the web. It's interesting and fun to play with. Try it out. It's actually more like three to four years. |
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| Coupons and What to do With Them |
[Nov. 27th, 2009|03:31 pm] |
Where I live Marlboro Reds are $40.65 a carton with tax, and $5.15 a pack with tax. So, I buy by the carton. At roughly two packs a day for each of us, doing so saves my girlfriend and me around $1,500 a year. Well, about a month ago she and I started finding .50 coupons in each pack. I did the math: $5.15 minus .50 = 4.65. That's .58 more expensive than the per-pack price if I buy by the carton. As a result, my girlfriend and I continue to buy by the carton. If nothing else, it is a lot more convenient to pull a couple of packs of cigarettes out of a kitchen drawer before heading to work in the morning than to have to stop at the drug store every day.
Question is, what to do with the coupons? I can't redeem them when buying a carton of cigarettes (I asked, no such luck) and buying by the pack is still more expensive even with 50. knocked off; and I know that if I stick a couple in my wallet thinking I'll use them if I run out of cigarettes and have to buy a pack, I'll just forget about them. I didn't want to throw them away, that seems wasteful. Between us, my girlfriend and I have 120 .50 coupons for Marlboro - $60 worth.
In the course of Thanksgiving eating and drinking with my graduate assistants, both of whom switched to Marlboro Reds after Camel changed, I learned that they both purchase their cigarettes by the pack because, to quote one of them, "If I know all I need to do is walk across the room and open a drawer to get a new pack of cigarettes, I wouldn't pace myself and I'd end up smoking twice as much, and I can't afford that." (In the case of that particular assistant, if her daily consumption doubled, she'd be pushing four packs a day) That's when the light went off - On Monday both graduate assistants will find $30 worth of Marlboro coupons in their inbox. Doing so, by the way, violates university policy because it is considered to encouraging and enabling a student to smoke. |
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| Happy Thanksgiving |
[Nov. 26th, 2009|10:52 am] |
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! With the holiday arrived, will it be smokier or less smoky for you than a normal working day? Does anyone have any particular changes in their smoking habits in December with Christmas and New Year's on the horizon? Just curious. |
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| Parents who smoke and people who condem them for it |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|02:02 pm] |
Both of my parents smoked – a lot. They smoked around me and all their friends smoked around me. If there was any validity to the extreme claims of the hazards of second hand smoke, I would have had emphysema by the time I was 12. As it is, I turned out okay. I was a healthy kid and I’m a healthy adult. Sure, I was a dedicated smoker at age 13, but chances are, I would have started even if my folks hadn’t been smokers. I've always been irritated by the anti-smoking position that parents who smoke are somehow bad people, but I recently had my first encounter with someone who has that view.
A couple of years ago a good friend of my girlfriend’s and mine discovered that, at the age of 35, she was pregnant. After some deliberation and being pronounced in excellent health to have a baby, she decided to go through with it and have the child. So, she quit smoking. After more than 20 years of smoking, most of them at more than a pack a day, she stopped cold. “I hope the little bastard appreciates it,” was her frequent refrain.
Well, she had the kid and it was healthy and she and her husband entered the world of parenting. After about a month, her breasts stopped producing enough milk and the kid went on formula. The possibility of passing nicotine and other toxins on to her child by feeding it no longer an issue, she immediately resumed smoking.
The kid is still healthy, has a great personality, and is growing up strong and happy, well cared for by two loving parents. Well, yesterday, I was chatting with a mutual acquaintance and (I’ll call them) Sam and Laura and their child came up in the conversation. “They seem to be enjoying the whole parenthood thing, and (I’ll call him) Davie seems like a pretty good kid,” I observed. “Laura really needs to quit smoking. I couldn’t believe she started again. Sam should quit, too,” was the reply. I tried to shrug it off by saying something benign like “Oh, they’ll probably quit when they’re ready. I imagine having a kid that age is pretty stressful.” “I don’t care. What is she going to feel like when Davie starts smoking or gets sick? Parents shouldn’t smoke. It’s a bad example for their children. Or if they do smoke, it should just be socially and not around their kids,” was the reply. I didn’t try to argue and changed the subject.
What gets me, though, is not only was the person making whether or not a person smokes a measure of whether or not he/she is a good parent, she was also saying that it sets a better example to hide one’s enjoyment of a perfectly legal activity; in other words, to lie to the kid. So now not only is smoking bad, not just bad for you, it’s worse if you do it openly and honestly. |
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| this may not be true, but... |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|01:58 pm] |
i was told last night that clove cigarettes are going to be banned in the US starting january. along with all other flavored tobacco products.
i'm not big on cloves, but if this is true, i'd be pretty ticked.
the person who told me it is generally pretty reliable but i'd think i would have heard of this by now. |
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| Peer Pressure |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|01:22 pm] |
You don’t hear as much about kids starting to smoke because of peer pressure as you used to. Personally, I’ve always thought that the whole peer pressure argument was mostly crap, but now I think peer pressure and smoking are definitely connected. Let me explain.
In a little over six months I will be forty years old. When this fact came up during an office lunch the other day, the resident anti took it as an opportunity to encourage me to quit smoking. “Do the math,” she said. “How long have you been smoking?” I calculated and said “Twenty six or seven years.” “Okay,” she said. “How much do you smoke?” I replied “About two packs a day.” She cringed and asked “How long have you smoked that much?” I thought a moment and said, “Since I was seventeen or eighteen.” (At this point, I wanted a cigarette so badly I was ready to climb the walls; but since I have to work with this person and she’s usually pretty well behaved, I went along with her.) “So, you’ve smoked for well over forty pack years, don’t you think you should quit while you’re ahead? Before you start to have problems, give your lungs a chance to repair the damage you’ve done?” I sighed and told her “Probably, but I won’t be able to unless I’m ready, and I’m not ready to quit. I will when I am.” She rolled her eyes and walked away. Thankful that the conversation was over, I went outside and joined my Grad assistants for a cigarette.
Sigh. Should I quit smoking? Well, from a health standpoint, of course I should. Right now, I’m in good health – low bad cholesterol, high good cholesterol, normal blood pressure, healthy liver and kidney function – the whole bit. I’m really in pretty good shape. I’m physically active, rarely sick, and feel good 99.9% of the time. Now, I won’t deny that smoking has had an effect on my health. It’s pretty obvious that it has. I don’t have the stamina of non-smokers my age or of smokers with a lower daily consumption. Duh! Of course not! You can’t expect to spend twenty seven years pumping shit into your lungs day in and day our and not fuck them up in the process. That said, I’m in a hell of a lot better shape than non-smokers who sit on their ass all day, take the elevator to go up one floor, drive when they could walk to work, and generally avoid any physical activity. Their lungs are pretty and pink, but pink really isn’t my color. Yeah, I know that just because I’m in good shape now doesn’t mean that there isn’t some pretty serious shit going on inside me because I smoke; but it isn’t a certainty that there is, either. I also know that one hundred percent of non-smokers die and not all smokers die from it. So, there it is: I should quit smoking. If I did, my lungs would immediately begin to clean themselves. My stamina would gradually improve. My morning hack fest would go away. The next time I catch a rare cold it would be less likely to settle in my lungs like wet concrete for a month. Eventually my risk of lung cancer, emphysema, and heart disease would be virtually the same as if I had never decided to deliberately befoul my lungs with a thousand toxic gasses. Pretty neat, huh?
There’s just one little problem. I don’t want to. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that most smokers under the age of fifty or sixty who quit want to, either; but have either been pressured into it by being made to feel as thought they should want to, or they stop for economic reasons. So, the next time you toy with the idea of quitting, stop and ask yourself if you really want to, or if you’re just caving to peer pressure. You just might be surprised. |
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| What you buy when you cant afford what you want. |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|08:16 pm] |
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Due to the latest post I tried posting this up as a comment, but it became so long that it might as well be a post!
I'm a smoker, I'm an addict and I embrace these bits of me to some extent. I am also a fiend, I've fished in ashtrays identifying cigarettes types from just the butt or a golden/silver/ line on the filter or the pattern the filter has on it, ect, sometimes even the smell of the tobacco ash. I've lived my smokers life typically smoking camels and marbs, with the occasional clove, bidi or cigarillo cognac/honey dipped filer. Honestly, there's a lot of cigarettes that I don't even remember the names of the brand and it's a shame, because those are the ones I'd love to try again the most.
But in regard to the last post, here's the antithesis question to ask, what's the worst fucking tube of shit you have ever had the displeasure of forcing yourself to enjoy?
I'm more "Cadillac" and "Hoopty" smoker myself, though I have dabbled in high end Rolls-Royce and BMW style cigarettes.
Still, I can give you a decent list of the bottom of the barrel due to how cheap I tend to go to sustain my habit with a lack of income. Then again, these are just my opinions in regard to flavor, value and quality. So take it cum grano salis more than anything. I am by no means an authority on cheap-ass cigarettes. But I have been smoking shitty cigarettes off and on for 11 years now. Take it or leave it as a short advice column.
From worst to best in the low end cost department:
BV's aka 'Best Value'" These glorified tubes of tobacco, I refrain from calling them "cigarettes", are literally 4 puffs of agony, take less than 2 minutes to smoke and taste like a sulfur mine meets a garbage can full of soiled nappys.
Average (west coast) Price: 2.50-3.25
Tailored: Maverick's, Bronco's, ACE's, MORE's, Eagle's.
Rolling Tobacco: Midnight Special, and Top: They are all the exact same thing, shake tobacco that didn't make the cut to be ground up and used to spray the growing crops with to enrich their nicotine content. They burn the same length as a standard king cigarette, 4-6 minutes, but their flavor is an acquired taste. And by that I mean you need to smoke them for a good while until they taste like something borderline pleasant.
Average (west coast) price: 2.00-3.99
Tailored: Winstons, Pall Mall's.
Rolling Tobacco: McClintoc: These are a slight step up from the previous tier due to their ability to be enjoyed almost half way through your first full cigarette. They lack only a pleasant aroma to go with their acceptable flavor.
Average (west coast) price: 3.25-4.00
Getting into the better than absolute crap cigarettes now.
Tailored: Kent's, 7 Stars, Triple Nickles and Wave's.
Rolling Tobacco: American Spirit and American Standard: I remember my grandma telling me that Kents were the classiest cigarettes to smoke in the 40's and 50's. Well they have a distinct similar flavor between cigar tobacco and pipe tobacco which really puts me off. 7 Stars are imports from japan and I like to refer to them as "Ninja Cigarettes" because when the cigarette is lit it does not burn off a smoke trail, nor do you exhale smoke. No matter the drag you take off of them, though they taste good and satisfy your craving if you need a light smoke. Triple Nickles are another one that's supposedly classy, but they smell horrible, it's almost as is they had chimney sweepings throw in with the nicotine drench pre-harvest for the leaf that is used for them. Wave's are made from the left-overs of the Camel domestic blend that didn't make it to grade A tobacco standard, so they taste like Camels but they burn a bit faster.
Average (west coast) Price: 4.50-6.25
In as far as American Spirit Rolling tobacco goes this one is kind of a toss up, it's NOT cheap but it is also NOT high quality compared to what you get in a tailored pack, it still tastes alright but you need to know how to roll very well to get the most from a hand rolled spirit. American standard is a bulk rolling tobacco that comes in HUGE packages for relatively low price though it's not always cut very well. I've gotten a bag of this stuff that was shag cut for pipe smoking, which was really disappointing that I had to go through and turn it into shake using a hand press and a wire slicer.
Average (west coast) price: 7.50-12.99
Parliments: I have very few nice things to say about Parliments but they are definitely near the middle ground of bad cigarettes. The recessed filter is a novel idea, albeit an advertising gimmick. Useful features of a recessed filter include (and I mean no offence by stating this, just don't know a better term for it) No way to "niggerlip" it, allows for more smoke to be out of the filter when your drag is complete, you can do a double match hit of coke off of the tip of it. Now, not all of those are good things, but those are the positives. My biggest problem: PARLIMENTS ONLY COME IN LIGHTS AND ULTRALIGHTS. Automatic failure, especially since every time I hunker down and buy one I hope that they will taste better than I remember them tasting last time, which they never do.
Average (west coast) price: 5.50
Rolling Tobacco: Bugler: Here's the first winner on my list of "tobadcco". Bugler is dirt cheap and does not taste at all! All you taste is your papers you roll with when you smoke Bugler, so if you get some good papers (such as liquid zoos or bidi rolls or the white zigzags) NEVER use the standard gummy papers that come with bugler, you will regret it due to being laced with chemicals. Bugler even goes well as a mixture with Bali Shag if you need a little flavor in your aftertaste.
Average (west coast) price: 3.50-4.00
Rolling Tobacco: Bali Shag: Now this shit is the vanilla of rolling tobaccos. It tastes like a cross between a Dunhill standard and Players (Which are both fairly high end premium fags as far as my taste buds and olfactory senses are concerned).
Average (west coast) price: 4.00-5.50
After all this are the standards in no particular order:
Camel, Marlboro, Newport, Craven A, Windsor, Embassy, Doral, Basic, Merit, Kool, Shag, Longlife, Peace, Cabin and Casters.
My knowlege of cigarettes outside of Japan and the USA is fairly limited. I'm sure others could add to this list. |
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| The world's best cigarettes. |
[Oct. 28th, 2009|04:04 pm] |
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It seems like everything imaginable has got it's own Top Ten List. There's a best of everything and granted, opinions are more subjective than objective in nature. I got to wondering what is considered the world's best tobacco and what's considered the Rolls Royce of cigarettes.
I decided to research this out for a article to publish on my website. I started out with Ixquick, a search engine I'm using more and more nowadays because A.) they don't track your IP address and more importantly B.) I like their results better. You don't get 1,200,000 results on Ixquick. You get about three pages of unique results and that's it. Google has lots of repeat results and I'm getting a creepy feeling that they know me better than my own mother by now.
The search didn't go as well as I had hoped for. There were lots and lots of anti-tobacco sites in the choices. That is par for the course these days. There was an article about Johnny Depp's favorite, Lucky Strikes. They're the ones with the L.S.M.F.T. slogan, which stands for Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. The same article mentioned a clove/tobacco blend brand considered among the world's finest by the name of Djarum Blacks. I learned a new word in the process - I guess clove cigarettes are referred to as kretecks. Djarum cigarettes are no longer available for purchase in the US as of September 22, 2009.
I finally gave up on trying to find an objective article which simply rated cigarettes on a qualitative scale, but I did stumble upon on a page that nicely describes the varying qualities of the tobacco plant itself. It's an informative page and this guy really knows his stuff. Here's his web page---> http://www.seedman.com/Tobacco.htm. I get the feeling that Virginia Gold is considered the Rolls-Royce.
I'm seriously considering growing some tobacco plants. I like growing things, the whole process fascinates me. It's got it's boring parts [you know the old saying 'it's like watching paint dry' or grass grow] to be sure. Harvest time is the best, you've really accomplished something and it's payoff time for all the intervening boredom. I'm going to plant the Virginia Gold variety and just savor the luxury. It'll help me cut back some.
I did the math for you and best I can come up with is that if you were to grow a years worth (at a pack a day) you would need an area 36 feet by 36 feet in order to grow about 150 plants. I'm going to grow about fifty plants. If you grew a years worth and just bought cig tubes and rolling machines you could theoretically cut your smoking cost down to about $150/year - just imagine that.
http://smokervoter.webs.com
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| Review of Vera Cruz Midnight FF tubes |
[Oct. 26th, 2009|04:32 pm] |
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i recently got in the mail Vera Cruz tubes.
( pic )
see they cool, huh? but there's a problem when a company invests so much in the looks of a product and so little in the quality of the product.
first off they burn really fast. Remember Jeanne Garolfalo's character in Romy and Michelle's high school reunion? Well she invented Lady Fair cigarettes the quick burning paper, 'twice the taste in half the time', lol... Well these are the realest incarnations of Lady Fair. These cigarettes burn to the filter in about 90 seconds. Some may like that but I do not.
also, how they burn is a problem. At first I thought it was me, that I didn't pack them properly but all the ones i've smoked burn unevenly. holes start appearing in the middle of cigarette before the cherry even reaches them.
another problem: ash has a hard time flicking off, rather it encases the cherry and doesn't look like its burning anymore. and when it finally does flick off, it takes the whole cherry with it.
Vera Cruz tubes look really pretty and neat, but they need some work. maybe in a few years they'll be better but for now, steer clear of Midnights.
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| brands of herbal cigs slash one thing that pisses me off about online tobacco shops |
[Oct. 16th, 2009|07:28 pm] |
what is your favorite brand of herbal (not pot but non-tobacco) cigarettes?
also what r some good online stores to find herbal cigs, my tobacco shop here sucks a lot.
and finally just something that irritates me about many rolling papers/smoking supply stores/online tobacco shops: they are willing to sell you the shit but at the bottom it says, "smoking is hazardous to your health and can cause cancer, stroke, heart attack. if you don't smoke, don't start."
i understand that they may have to say the disclaimer about smoking being hazardous to your health, but the whole, 'if you don't smoke don't start' rhetoric reminds me off people that say they are pro-choice (and usually start their sentence off by saying that), yet think abortion is a tragedy or some terrible thing. "I'm prochoice but I don't think it should be used as birth control." or "Im prochoice but i think it should be used as a last resort and laws should ban 2nd/3rd trimester abortions."
fucking pussies. |
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| Tobacco and Columbus |
[Oct. 14th, 2009|11:47 am] |
Much to my surprise, it seems Christopher Columbus and tobacco played a big part in American history. When Columbus was sailing around the general area of Cuba he encountered indigenous people smoking rolled up corn leaves or sugarcanes with tobacco leaves in the middle. He himself didn't think too much of it, but some of his crew did. They took some back with them to Spain, where it eventually became a big hit. The crewman who first adopted it was one Rodrigo de Jerez, who really got it started by bringing back the seeds or some plants. The Nannie's of that era, the Spanish Inquisitionists, punished him with seven years in jail for his sinful smoking. Sounds eerily familiar.
By the time he got out of the slammer it had become a trade good that was catching on in Europe. It seems the French ambassador in Portugal, one Jean Nicot brought it to the attention of the French. Thus we have the term Nicotine and the namesake for the newfound Nicotine Nazi regime. The Mayan word for smoke was CIKAR and the sugarcane smoking tubes were called Tobagos.
Plan A for the early settlers of the Colonies in America didn't quite pan out, as corn and other food crops wouldn't grow in sufficient quantities to turn a profit. So they moved on to Plan B, which was tobacco. Tobacco saved the Colonies from abandonment. At one time tobacco was money in America.
Five hundred years later we're back to square one and poor old Rodrigo de Jerez . But tobacco is still money today, at least to the government and the Tobacco Control research machine.
http://smokervoter.webs.com
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| The different cuts of tobacco |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|09:03 am] |
There is so much to know about tobacco it's amazing. I enjoy smoking and have no intention of quitting - ever. But I am cutting down. In doing some research for my website I came across an article about tobacco cuts. This is essentially all about how bulky the raw material is chopped up. It's really a fascinating subject and it makes a big difference in taste, draw, etc etc. Try typing in Cutting It Fine+tobacco in the search engine of your choice and read the article, it's fascinating.
I started rolling my own with a machine and filter tubes a couple of years ago when a friend of mine suggested it to me to save money. He also pointed out that the 'ready mades' contain a lot of weird stuff. At first I thought it was more trouble than was worth the savings but I've gradually become a RYO (roll your own) guy and have never looked back.
My site is about smoking in general, but it's mainly about the politics of smoking as in forming a powerful voting coalition to protect our interests. It actually grew out of an old GeoCities site I did on a whim way back when. It's original focus was the motorcycle helmet laws - which I detested - and it went from there. Funny thing - I don't ride dirtbikes anymore because I can't stand wearing a helmet, but I still smoke.
Another thing about rolling your own and cutting back on smoking. You tend to smoke less when you've got to make up a cigarette rather than just pulling one out of your ready made pack.
smokervoter.webs.com
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| more of this ... |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|09:22 am] |
Yet more changes restricting smoking in my province. The new rules include:
° Eliminating designated smoking rooms in public places and workplaces, except in nursing homes and community care facilities;
° Eliminating designated smoking areas and prohibit smoking on hospital grounds, with the exception of Hillsborough Hospital;
° Prohibiting smoking in vehicles with persons under the age of 19 present;
° Permitting smoking on patios/decks of eating establishments and licensed premises only between 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Just let people smoke already. |
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| Payback |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|04:19 pm] |
Friends and acquaintances have occasionally wondered why I frequently will give my lighter to someone who asks me for a light and tell them to keep it. The answer is simple: Chances are the person is going to need a light again before they can get a lighter or a book of matches. I almost always have my backpack with me and it usually has a spare lighter in it. If I don't chances are I'll be back in my office pretty soon, and my desk always has a spare lighter or two. No one should go through the frustration of wanting a smoke and not being able to get a light. I also figure that in some cosmic way being a nice guy is better than being a jerk. Turns out I was right.
A few weeks ago it was summer term exam week at my university. I had gone outside where I could smoke while I read some really dense reports. After a while, I saw a couple of students, I man and a woman enter the courtyard and sit at the end of my bench. She handed him a Kamel Red and he thanked her and asked if she had a lighter. She rummaged in her purse, and then in her backpack and I could see the panic start. "Shit! I left it in the lab." I offered them a light and they accepted it gratefully. She set the lighter on the bench between us and I went back to reading. When they finished their cigarettes, the guy stood up and asked if she was going back to the library. She said no, she wanted another cigarette. He sort of laughed and shook his head saying, "If I smoked as much as you my lungs would bleed. She smirked at him and observed that in that case it's a good thing he doesn't smoke much. He wandered away and she asked if she could use my lighter again. I of course said yes and she lit up. I asked how exams were going and she said they were pretty rough. She had taken 12 hours so she would have a light load for the fall when she would be graduating. "I had to exams yesterday and two more today." I said said something about she must be pretty stressed-out and she laughed and said, "No kidding. I should have had my head examined for taking an overload, but I'll be all right." She held up her pack of cigarettes and continued, "As long as I don't run out of these and my lungs keep working everything will be fine. I may have taken three years off of my life, but I'll be finished." We chatted while each of us to finished our cigarette and smoked another. When I stood to leave she held my lighter out to me and I told her to keep it and wished her well. As I walked away I heard her light up again.
I assumed I would never see her again, but I was wrong. Two days ago, my girlfriend and I met some friends for drinks at a bar downtown i rarely go to. It has an outdoor area with an outdoor bar. I thought the bartender looked familiar, and sure enough it was the woman to whom I'd given my lighter a few weeks earlier. She recognized me and I asked how her exams had gone. She said she'd aced them and that the first round was on the house.
She lied. When I went to settle the tab a couple of hours later, I found that she'd charged me for only three PBR's - nothing near what my girlfriend and I had consumed. I honestly thought there was a mistake and asked about it. "No, that's correct. Thanks for the lighter." She held it up with a grin and asked "Can I keep it.
Yes you can, sister, yes you can. |
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| Smoked again |
[Aug. 29th, 2009|10:01 pm] |
Well, i posted a while ago how i wasnt sure whether or not i wanted to smoke. Well, tonight I did again and well I miss itt. It's horrrrible i never get to smoke but it was nice to be able to today :]
This post is kinda probably pointless to many of u but I'm just glad that I got to again is all |
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| Nicotine Nazis at it again |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|12:11 am] |
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090827/hl_hsn/getreadyforgruesomecigarettewarnings
so yeah i got it, nicotine bad, pot really bad, fast food really really bad. Alcohol okay! "You just keep knocking them back because everybody knows its the tobacco thats going to kill your liver not the 12 gallons of alcohol you've been ingesting on a daily basis for 11 years!"
i'm not straight edge (i dont have a problem with alcohol) but it just really pisses me off that they single out smokers when alcohol is legal and when used in excess can be potenally just as 'bad' if not worse... why aren't they putting pictures of a liver with corrohsis on bottles of hooch? and ya know while we're on the swubject of what is bad- no matter how many cirgarettes one smokes, they are never going to plow into another car directly because of it, but how much beer and liquor can one drink prior to driving around and have the same result?
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[Aug. 21st, 2009|12:41 am] |
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hello folks!
this post is geared more towards those who smoke cloves
i have a question:
what are reputable websites to buy cloves from? clovecigarettesstore.com has the cheapest prices but i have never ordered from them before, so i am a little wary. same for rokokzone.com
thank you in advance :) |
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| Help? |
[Aug. 19th, 2009|07:25 pm] |
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I started smoking a few months ago, but then I got caught by the cops at school and I got suspended. My parents found out and I decided to just quit. Back in July my friend who moved came back to visit me and we were going on vacation together. I smoked a few times on that vacation and then I decided to not anymore. Well, I think I'm changing my mind. My life just isnt doing well and I've been so upset recently. I don't want to smoke again, but I just dont know what else to do. I just want my pain to fade away. But my other problem is I have no way of smoking again. The person who bought my ciggs last time will no longer buy me them. And now I have no other way to buy them or even smoke. Advice? |
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| Techincally not a smoker but I love smokers and support them. |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|12:58 am] |
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| | Atomic by Blondie | ] |
i'm not a tobacco cigarette smoker but I love smoking. I'm not trying to sound like a moronic teeny bop but I think smoking is very sexy. I really I love it. There's just something about it. Not to mention I love the smell of smoke. If they made a perfume based on cigarette smoke I'd wear or at least spray it all over my house.
Things that irritate me:
-Anti-smoking laws
-PSAs that single out smoking as an evil scourge yet say nothing about alcohol and say nothing about real scourges
-Self-righteous anti-smoking bafoons, especially the ones the acost smokers outside or in an already ventilated area |
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