Smoking

So I just got bitched out by my friends girlfriend (why the fuck is it her problem anyway) for smoking.

So I ask fakku, do you smoke?

And if so how much?

And if not, why not?

i have a bad asthma, so bad that i got hospitalized once when i tried to smoke.

so no smoking for me.

smoking(and the smoke)could kill me easily.

Isn't there already a thread about this? (in case there isn't I'll reply anyway)
I don't smoke because I have asthma, allergies, don't want to die early (or at all really), don't want to smell like shit, don't want to cause others to die early, don't want to fuck up the environment, and don't want to hand my money over to companies selling me an inefficient suicide product when I could just spend less of my money once with a gun, a knife, or some pills.

I don't smoke... Tried it when I was 7. It tasted so bad that I swore I would never smoke again and I threw the smoke in some canal

Now when it's the smell of the cigar... that's something different.

I LOVE the smell of cigars. I just don't like how it tastes^^

Find some flavored blunt wraps 8)

i don't smoke.my job as a swimming instructor forced me to do so.

well,i hate smoking(and guys who smoke :evil:) anyways.

Why do you hate guys that smoke?

That sounds a little shallow IMO

smoking=destroying your own lungs(and brain,to some extent)
why would you destroy your own body?

The #1 reason in my book is a felling of tranquility.

Climbing out my window and looking out at the city skyline while smoking has been the single calmest moment of my life.

With all the shit I deal with on a day to day basis, a smoke really helps calm me.

And it's a very good sleep aid, without cigarettes i dont know how many all night-ers i would have pulled.

And you still didn't answer my question

@kamisama
you see,i always like guys who takes care of his body.
that's why i hate guys who smoke.
it's not hate to the point i shun them or something,it's the hate i keep in my mind.see?

whether you like looking out to the city skyline and smoke or not it's your own business.

if that could help you relax,thats good for you.
although there's better ways to relax.

it's not like smokers will listen to me if i told them to stop smoking anyways. :(

lol, well i see your POV, and your right most people need their own reason to quit doing anything, not just smoking, and yeah im sure their are better ways to relax :/

Because it's not about destruction. Being a masochist is different from the primary goal of a smoker. People seem to have a illogical view of that. It's like going up to a football player and ask "Why do you enjoy breaking your limbs and tearing muscle?" That's not why they play and we know it.

People smoke because the benefits in the present outweigh the future possible cons. I say possible because it really is just a probability. Depending on your genetic resistance and frequency of use it could do just about nothing or kill you in less than four years. Especially if you have an obscene amount of lung tissue from hard labor, killing off 3/4ths of your lungs when you have 5x the volume of a normal person kinda skews things. But the future is a sketchy thing to grasp regardless how much we tout the concept of cause/effect since regardless of what people have experienced in the past it's not real till it hits close to home or we experience it first hand.

Argument aside, I personally avoid smoke at all cost. I inhale by mere coincidence far too much for my taste and have a large degree of paranoia about sense loss after contact for any period of time. Most of the issue I have with smoke is from previously having very strong allergic reaction with common allergens which made my lungs at least a fourth full of fluid. The very possibility of going back to that by choice...is not something I can deal with. To relieve stress or clear my head a 6 minute mile is all I require as it just about renders me useless but can't be upset when you can't think.

I don't advocate smoking but hearing the tired argument of "oh, it's bad for you" is a very weak one. It is on average a vaild point when put up against empirical evidence but hearing it without a calm, neutral point of view along with tempered reading into the scientific studies, not the theory or conclusions but the numbers themselves it devolves into a playground child's argument. Much like the American Heart Association's attack on salt. Salt is essential and no study has proved that it does anything, in fact the human body is actually really great at dealing with it as it is after all as essential as water, there's a reason we have a large percentage of tongue cells dedicated to recognizing it. It's just that attacking salt is easier than attacking the foods that commonly go with large portions of it...is harder to work against.

Which causes the main problem with science, the knowledge doesn't condense down into a single sentence but we do to it anyway.

So kudos Kamisama_no_Loli prove us wrong and live longer with smoking and less stress buildup than otherwise or if you're unlucky let's have the tact to not say anything later since enough of us have been yelling "told you so" twenty years too early. But just don't smoke around me.

Look's like copy pasta, but i like it, and i doubt one smoke a day will take 20 years off my life, but what do i know, im a collage student :roll:

if that's a copy pasta then it took me a forever to press two buttons, *sigh*

As for the 20 years, you have to ask yourself...do you really know how long the max year count is for you anyway? Since it's mostly genetics...unless we do a lot of trolling for family details it's not something that's straight forward, add to that the problem that lifespan is really only measurable from the last three generations back. It's not something really founded.

So my question would be are you worried if smoking will take off 20 years. It would be if you could live to 100 without smoking, how much PT and diet control will you work on between 40-80 that keeps your body working those last 20 years in worthwhile function? Since you'll have to keep that training harder those last 20 years just to keep it.

Otherwise we get stuck in that wonder of geriatric systematic failure.

There is a thread allready in the serious discussion forum :) Ya just have to look for "Anti smoking laws" :)

am i smoking?
-no

why?
-smoking is bad for your health because everything inside it is dangerous for you. let's see the faq now:arsenic(poison);butane(matchstick head);cadmium(used in car accu);toluene(industry solvent);hydrogen cyanide(poison gas for punish death sentenced criminals);ammonia(floor cleaner);carbon monoxide(your car smoke);vynil chloride(pvc plastic material);acetone(paint cleaner);methanol(rocket fuel),etc.

i don't know why people pick smoking as stress reliever.... for me browsing in fakku is far more better than it,am i right?

My answer to your question and my opinion/thoughts:
I don't smoke simply because I don't feel a need to smoke. Plus, I feel as if it consumes money and obviously damages your health; even if it's not much 'till you realize you're in a hospital bed and may die soon like a family member of mine. Rest In Peace.


Anyway I feel as if people should be able to smoke wherever they want, as long as it isn't dangerous or around children of a young age. But hey, that's just my opinion.

I do smoke, around 10 cigs during weekend. Normally like 1 cig / day or not even that. I'm more like weekend smoker :(

my reason not to smoke :

1. i don't need to(smoking doesn't help me solve a shit)
2. i have asthma
3. i love sports(smoking makes you short of breath and tired easily)
4. i don't want to waste my money

on a side note, i respect smokers, i respect their right to choose to smoke, but what i don't respect is inconsiderate smokers, those kind of people smoke wherever and whenever they like, i mean i don't smoke so don't make me inhale your smoke, know your place :|

I smoke, on a good day about half a pack a day, on a not so good as much as 2 packs.