Do you smoke(cigarettes)?

[Loyal]

Poll question: Do you smoke(cigarettes)?

Do you smoke cigarettes?

[Punkingal]

1. Do you???

:hi:

[Loyal]

3. Hehe

Nope, I quit. :) How about you?

[Punkingal]

8. I think about quitting.....

all the time. :smoke: But I haven't yet.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. Never have, never will!

Not even once. Can't even walk by smokers without coughing.

[Scairp]

2. Nein

Too many family members have succumbed to lung cancer. I do not believe in smoking.

[Friar]

4. and it sucks!

No pun intended. Well, maybe a little.

I started smoking in VietNam when the army gave me free cigarettes. Well, they weren't really free. All you folks at home were paying for them.

Getting the patch in a few days. I gotta quit. My daughter says so and who can say no to their daughter?

[Loyal]

5. Good for you!

:)

[Loyal]

6. Wow!

Lots of people smoke. I think the national average is something like 19%, and we're 40%+

[Speed8098]

12. The national average is BS

I too have this nasty habit. I will one day heed the wisdom of my 13 year old daughter and quit like my wife did.

However.......the national average is a tool to make us feel like a minority. Look around, 19%?? I don't think so. 30-35 is probably closer to the truth.

[Loyal]

40. I believe it for nationwide

It's heavier in the south and midwest, but up here in NY it's easily below 20%.

[FrenchieCat]

7. I'm French, What do you think? n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

51. French? Like, from France?

I thought you were that chick who got bounced from American Idol.

Imagine my surprise!

--bkl
Mais, bien sûr, je suis un ass de jack.

[VermontDem2004]

9. No Cigarettes but I do something else

:smoke:

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Never

But I live in a city (Las Vegas) where it's pathetically common. Keeps me on the run.

[izzie]

11. Love to smoke but it is really costing now.

I think I will give it up. Maine is a smokers state, in lots do. It cost alot so you buy in NH.It is odd people have put such bad things on smoking yet mills still pump out all that stuff, gas sends out stuff and then people put wood stoves in their homes and burn anything.Oh well, we will not let people smoke pot, yet drinking kills thousands a year in cars and things. I guess you pick your own evil.

[OneTwentyoNine]

14. No,but isn't this a Lounge question? n/t

...

[durutti]

15. Not tobocco cigarettes

;-)

[IndianaGreen]

19. Same here, I don't smoke tobacco!

;-)

[RetroLounge]

16. Yes. and I think I'll go have one now.

thanks...

[Name removed]

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[Ernesto]

21. I prefer to

tolk a bowl now an then.

[denverbill]

18. Wow. WAY above the national average.

That's hard to believe. Damned near 1/2 of DU'ers smoke?

I quit 5 months ago, so I got to answer no.

[VOX]

20. Used to, but was able to quit long ago...

Was lucky that I was able to give it up. For most it isn't so easy.

:kick:

[BigBigBigBear]

22. I quit

June 20th of this year, after 30 years.

Yes, I gained weight.

[PapaClay]

23. Yup

Smoke
Drink
Cuss
Belch
Fart
Screw
Headbang



...and those are my redeeming qualities

[wellstone_democrat]

25. you sound "dreamy!"

everythin' I'm lookin' for in a man!

:evilgrin:

(Hey, although I am very happily involved, I just wanted to encourage the increase in the number of people who sound human by their habits!)

[PapaClay]

42. Thank You.........

ThankYouVeryMuuuchh...

:smoke:

(Mama Clay insists that I'm better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...She is the wellspring from which I flow!)

[qwertyMike]

35. PapaClay - Do you

have a sister????????? :)

[PapaClay]

43. LOL!

I remember using that line a few times. It was lonnnng ago and far away.

Alas no. But I married into a big family so I inherited a few! B-)

[JohnKleeb]

24. no but I always feel like I could need something like that

[DemBones DemBones]

26. Don't start smoking, dude! People who start as teenagers often

have a very hard time quitting, plus it's expensive , and potentially bad for you. I say potentiall bad for you because I suspect that some people have a genetic make-up that allows them to "survive" smoking without ever getting lung cancer of other smoking-associated diseases. Most everybody knows someone like that.

And, yes, I started smoking as a teenager but it was a dumb thing to do -- kind of like teasing my hair -- and I managed to quit after five years. (Yes, quit teasing my hair, too, LOL) About fifteen years later, I discovered I could have a cigarette every now and then without becoming addicted again, which was cool, but I don't even do that now. You could end up looking like this:

:smoke:

Red in the face, short of breath, having to wear shades all the time to hide your watery eyes and crow's feet (heavy smokers get more WRINKLES!)

[VermontDem2004]

28. I started when I was 14

and quit 8 or 9 months ago. I actually never got addicted to anything but I do have a few bad habits. :)

[LynneSin]

32. John - you so don't need something like that

and don't fool yourself into thinking you do.

Smokers claim that smoking helps "calm their nerves" - those nerves are all jittery because their body is craving for another cigerette and by only adding more nicotine into their system will they feel calm.

If you really feel you "Need Something Like that" you need a good whap across the foreheard!!

[Cascadian]

27. I don't smoke but I let other people smoke for me.

It's a vile and filthy habit however, I am not one to be anal retentive about other people who do it. The only time I have a problem with it if it's morning and I want the first breath of fresh air or if I am sick then get it away from me.

John

[chiburb]

29. Yes, but not...

In the house or walking down a crowded sidewalk. Started as a teen, and I quit every hour... unless I'm drinking. Then I quit every ten minutes.

[Cascadian]

31. I do allow it in the apartment if I have people over for drinks and stuff.

That's pretty much it. I haven't bought into this total social engineering of all smokers must go outside.


John

[Fridays Child]

30. Nope, but the little smokin' dude is still one of my favorite smileys.

:smoke:

[qwertyMike]

33. Like a chimney

and I'd smoke 2 at a time if I had 2 mouths

Dope too - for a break :)

[qwertyMike]

34. "Didn't start smoking till I was nine"

W.C. Fields said that

[Droopy]

36. Yes but I'm quitting after this pack

I've been thinking about it for a couple of weeks. I decided last week that I would finish this carton and call it quits. Going cold turkey.

[LynneSin]

37. Don't go cold turkey when they have great anti-smoking stuff out there

Get the patch or something. Everyone who has quit smoking swear they are more successful when they have anti-smoking aids!!

[geniph]

38. I'm asthmatic

I'd be dead by now if I smoked. I can't even deal with having more than a couple of candles lit in a room, and any kind of smoke, even from a barbecue, makes me wheezy and ill very quickly.

Both my parents smoked - my mother was the worst kind of chain-smoker, lighting one right off the butt of the other all day long - and none of us kids have ever smoked. We were all so grossed out by it - plus it's damned expensive to smoke that much. I don't know how people afford it.

[Spirochete]

39. Quit 10 years ago

Best thing I ever did. Worst thing was starting in the first place.

[Skip Intro]

41. Quit 5 years ago

tho I sneak a cigar about once every six months

[scarlet_owl]

44. I used to

but it will be two years in December since I've had my last cigarette.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

45. I have zero sympathy (or empathy) for smokers

I believe that all smokers should be made to spend a week tending the terminally ill in a cancer ward. The smoking rate would drop to zero in exactly that same week. Ever watch someone melt away as their lungs fill with green and black goo? The pain and suffering is incredible. They end up as walking skeletons, their transparent parchament-skin wrapped hanging off their bodies. Listen to them struggle to take a deep breath, and then another, and then....

How much does a pack cost these days? $3.50 or thereabouts? Lemme see-- a pack a day @3.50 is $1,277.50 per YEAR, times let's say ten years-- $12,775.00 up in smoke. If you live that long, that is...

Why the hell would ANYONE be willing to pay that price for the privilege of slowly poisoning their own bodies, along with creating all that suffering for those close to them, often in the same home? Children and friends getting that contact addiction from all the nicotine saturating the second smoke and haze they're forced to breathe? Walking around all day with that sickly burned ashy smell saturating all your clothes, and stinking up your hair and skin? The yellow stains on your fingers and your teeth? And waking up in the morning, literally coughing your lungs out, not able to breathe deeply enough to clear the viscious slime from your airway. Gasping shallowly, struggling to suck enough oxygen into your system to keep from getting dizzy...

Forget it. I ain't no chump. I prefer breathing deeply and living longer to all that shit.

[ixion]

46. Who is asking for sympathy?

But I don't need your snide remarks and insults, either.
Frankly, it's none of your business what I do with my body.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

47. Then have at it.

I'll come dance on your grave.

[ixion]

50. tappa-tappa-tappa

that's how it goes. dance away.

[Loyal]

48. Sure it's not

But I'll be paying for your disease riddled body to get health care.

[ixion]

49. non smokers (or ex smokers) are some of the most pretentious people

for one, I don't want the government to pay for anything for me. I want them to stay out of my life. And if you think that I'm going to sit in a hospital for the last days of my life, you've got another thing comin'.

So don't worry. I won't be taking one penny of your money.

[SoCalDem]

53. If you buy into the idea that smokers die young,

smokers "contribute" their social security money they don't live long enough to collect.. It's probably a wash:shrug:

Donut lard and pizza cheese probably account for an equal amount of clogged arteries, and the factories & cars ruin lungs too :(

[leftist_rebel1569]

52. Used to, but I don't now

I started in 6th grade and stopped in 7th grade. One of the best decisions I ever made

[Terwilliger]

54. (cigarrettes)?

why the parenthesis?

[woofless]

55. Yes, No, Yes

I quit for 11 months starting last Oct and started up again last month. Stressin' I guess. I also have fairly severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease so I am also quite STUPID, as well as weak.

Woof

[populistmom]

56. I smoked from 16-19

I was stressed a few years ago and briefly smoked about 1-2 packs a week for almost a year, but I hate the smell, I hate my breath, and it's a pain because I wouldn't do it in the house because other people didn't deserve any second hand smoke. Gave it up and don't expect to ever start again. I like to smell good and breath clearly more than I liked smoking.

Sarah