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Do you smoke or use other forms of tobacco? Pick however many apply.

  • Smoke cigarettes.

    Votes: 3 8.1%

  • Smoke cigars or pipe tobacco.

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Vape

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Chewing tobacco.

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Wacky tobacky

    Votes: 12 32.4%

  • Used tobacco in the past, but quit.

    Votes: 6 16.2%

  • Never used.

    Votes: 17 45.9%
  • Total voters
    37
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So, I’m curious. How many of you smoke or use some form of tobacco?
 
I have asthma. Have to use daily inhalers. Can't smoke anything otherwise it messes up my lungs for weeks.

Secondhand smoke also causes flare ups.
 
SlyPokerCat said:
I have asthma. Have to use daily inhalers. Can't smoke anything otherwise it messes up my lungs for weeks.

Secondhand smoke also causes flare ups.
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I also have asthma and I refuse to accept second hand smoke anywhere except near entrances where assholes are not supposed to smoke.
When I worked at Tektronix, people would walk up to my desk to discuss a technical problem while a lit cigarette hung out their mouth and ashes dropped on my papers. Thank God for the new laws. I don't go in night clubs but in the rare occasion like once every ten years that I do, I'm so glad I don't have to smell cigarette smoke so heavy that you couldn't see across the room.
 
I tried at parties and such 45 years ago, but hated it. Even cigars.
Played fast pitch softball and city league round ball and I ran 5 & 10 K's regularly. I new a couple a good ball players that smoked like a chimney and they were differently short winded, especially running bases.
And the guys that smoked that played city round ball you could tell as they were the least active on the court.
 
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Damn. My dad died from smoking. 51 years of smoking. Severe COPD. His lungs got so bad he got to the point one night while he was in the hospital, he developed hypercapnia. He couldn't exhale properly and carbon dioxide built up in his lungs and in his blood stream. He began to hyperventilate, he suffocated, and slipped into unconsciousness before the nurse found him. When they called me the next morning and I came in with my family, he was brain dead on a ventilator. Very hard to see. Can't unsee it. My mother's pastor came and read his last rights and we had the ventilator removed. He lasted a couple hours.
 
Chris Craig said:
Damn. My dad died from smoking. 51 years of smoking. Severe COPD. His lungs got so bad he got to the point one night while he was in the hospital, he developed hypercapnia. He couldn't exhale properly and carbon dioxide built up in his lungs and in his blood stream. He began to hyperventilate, he suffocated, and slipped into unconsciousness before the nurse found him. When they called me the next morning and I came in with my family, he was brain dead on a ventilator. Very hard to see. Can't unsee it. My mother's pastor came and read his last rights and we had the ventilator removed. He lasted a couple hours.
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Smoking will break your heart....might take 50 years but it's guaranteed.
 
Chris Craig said:
Damn. My dad died from smoking. 51 years of smoking. Severe COPD. His lungs got so bad he got to the point one night while he was in the hospital, he developed hypercapnia. He couldn't exhale properly and carbon dioxide built up in his lungs and in his blood stream. He began to hyperventilate, he suffocated, and slipped into unconsciousness before the nurse found him. When they called me the next morning and I came in with my family, he was brain dead on a ventilator. Very hard to see. Can't unsee it. My mother's pastor came and read his last rights and we had the ventilator removed. He lasted a couple hours.
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Sorry for your loss....I've looked right at that window...8 days of pure hell.
 
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Cigars, one a day, Bill Clinton style.

For the younger posters.
While pres, Clinton was asked if he ever smoked marijuana. He replied yes "but I didn't inhale".

I don't inhale cigar smoke, but, still take in some of the smoke in the air, more than I should. I just like the taste of cigars. Plus my dogs think cigars improve my breath.
 
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oldfisherman said:
Cigars, one a day, Bill Clinton style.

For the younger posters.
While pres, Clinton was asked if he ever smoked marijuana. He replied yes "but I didn't inhale".

I don't inhale cigar smoke, put, still take in some of the smoke in the air, more than I should. I just like the taste of cigars. Plus my dogs think cigars improve my breath.
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Cigars I loved when I smoked ...they always got me back on cigarettes though after quitting a million times, I'd throw darts with my buddies and have a cigar...next thing you know I'm back smoking....struggled for decades ….I inhaled cigars though....double whammy. Won't be doing that again but I like the smell of a cigar....hate the smell of a cigarette
 
I started smoking my grandmother’s unfiltered Pall Malls at about age 9. I’d actually smoke them along side her until she made it clear we both couldn’t afford to smoke on her fixed income. So.......I smoked off and on (mostly on) from age 15 or 16 (when I could afford my own smokes) until I was 4 months from my 60th birthday. Then I decided it might be nice to improve my odds of making it to 70 and I quit for good. Now I can’t believe I was ever that stupid to smoke. Yet despite smoking at least a pack a day for all those years, I’m more concerned about the effects of all the asbestos I inhaled while working for the family’s heating business throughout my teens and early 20’s.....but that hasn’t stopped me from enjoying the legalization of cannabis.....never understood the pleasure in cigars. If you can’t inhale, why smoke?
 
I smoked my first cigarettes in the fields on a John Deere tractor in the cold...Bull Durham roll your owns in those cloth bags that we'd rub on windshields to keep them from frosting over....an Irish field worker taught me to roll them ..never forget his name...Strawberry Carnes..he could roll one with one hand and drive a tractor with the other. I thought that was so cool back then. I didn't smoke much as a kid because I was into sports but once in the Navy I got the habit...started out with Camel non filters....humps...11 cents a pack on base. In Taiwan I smoked Long Life cigarettes....great name for a cigarette
 
Shaboid said:
Haven't smoked a cigarette since last December. Cold turkey. Surprisingly wasn't that hard now that I look back on it.
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I had to quit by tapering off.
Gotta keep cigarettes out of sight, though.
 
riverman said:
I smoked my first cigarettes in the fields on a John Deere tractor in the cold...Bull Durham roll your owns in those cloth bags that we'd rub on windshields to keep them from frosting over....an Irish field worker taught me to roll them ..never forget his name...Strawberry Carnes..he could roll one with one hand and drive a tractor with the other. I thought that was so cool back then. I didn't smoke much as a kid because I was into sports but once in the Navy I got the habit...started out with Camel non filters....humps...11 cents a pack on base. In Taiwan I smoked Long Life cigarettes....great name for a cigarette
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When I was about nine years old I smoked balloon sticks. God, those were harsh.
My grandfather and two uncles smoked unfiltered Pall Malls and Camels. I remember my uncle riding to work with me and my dad and my uncle would have to stop along the way at a gas station every day to buy one pack of cigarettes. Would he stop at a grocery store and buy a carton? No, he would rather pay three times as much by buying one pack every day. Drove my father nuts. Good grief, that was over 50 years ago and it still drives me nuts every time I think about it which fortunately doesn't happen but about once every decade. So thanks to whoever brought up this subject, ugh.
 
Chris Craig said:
Damn. My dad died from smoking. 51 years of smoking. Severe COPD. His lungs got so bad he got to the point one night while he was in the hospital, he developed hypercapnia. He couldn't exhale properly and carbon dioxide built up in his lungs and in his blood stream. He began to hyperventilate, he suffocated, and slipped into unconsciousness before the nurse found him. When they called me the next morning and I came in with my family, he was brain dead on a ventilator. Very hard to see. Can't unsee it. My mother's pastor came and read his last rights and we had the ventilator removed. He lasted a couple hours.
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I'm very sorry, Chris.
 
Lanny said:
I'm very sorry, Chris.
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That was nearly four years ago now. Doesn't hurt so bad to talk about anymore. My dad smoked non filtered cigarettes too. Mostly Pall Malls or Camel, though he told me he smoked Lucky Strikes during vietnam. He also rolled his own and was a fan of Bugle though he lamented several times that he missed Bull Durhams. He smoked from 14 years old till he died at 64.

He used to tell me, Chris never smoke non filters, those things will kill ya faster than getting married.
 
Chris Craig said:
That was nearly four years ago now. Doesn't hurt so bad to talk about anymore. My dad smoked non filtered cigarettes too. Mostly Pall Malls or Camel, though he told me he smoked Lucky Strikes during vietnam. He also rolled his own and was a fan of Bugle though he lamented several times that he missed Bull Durhams. He smoked from 14 years old till he died at 64.

He used to tell me, Chris never smoke non filters, those things will kill ya faster than getting married.
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Your father was exactly right. However, my grandfather who smoked a lot of unfiltered cigarettes and drank a lot of Alabama moonshine, died at 77. He also ate a diet that only Alabama rural people could eat, high in pork fat. Grandma kept a coffee can on the stove where she saved her cooking rendered grease such as bacon grease. The grease went into everything including pie crust, red eye gravy, biscuits and so forth.
 
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