Remember When Cigarettes Were Advertised on TV?

[Captain O]

I gave up smoking more than 25 years ago. I don't drink and don't use mind-altering substances other than coffee.

Smoking killed my father (heart disease) Cannabis helped kill my baby brother that had COPD. Alcohol killed my older brother.

What, in the name of all that's holy, is the point of abusing your body with mind-altering substances so that you can either:

a) either impress someone, or

b) escape reality?

You'll never get out of this world alive.

 

[Patriot1668]

I suppose I should be thankful for a family full of inconsiderate smokers. As a child I became so disgusted with their nicotine stained walls, horrible smell, and full ashtrays that I never wanted to try smoking anything. The worst were car trips with my Dad, a rolling gas chamber. I moved out at 17 to get away from them.

They're all gone now (guess why and how). You have a right to smoke if you choose, but don't do your kids any harm.

 

[jbett98]

As a kid I cut the grass of an old man across the street from me and when I went inside to get paid, he would be sitting in an old lazyboy recliner watching tv and chain smoking one cig after another.
His ash tray was a metal 5 gallon pail and there was a constant stream of smoke curling out of that pail.
Every surface was dark brown and the money he paid me stunk of cigarette smoke.

 

[The B]

b) escape reality?

You'll never get out of this world alive.

Nope.. No escaping death, SO why not at least escape reality?

 

[Captain O]

Nope.. No escaping death, SO why not at least escape reality?

I'd rather be cognizant of my surroundings. There are many advantages to maintaining lucidity (mental clarity).

"Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is thereby deceived is not wise." - Proverbs 20:1, King James Version of the Holy Bible.

 

[Stomper]

Oh... no... you... DIDN'T!!!





Those bubblegumming cigarettes are insidious, and I thank GOD my wife quit!! She was getting "the cough", and it was like watching a bubblegumming junkie!! She'd have to smoke before getting in the car (I don't allow smoking in the cars... and I can TELL if some has), she'd have to smoke when we got to our destination, she'd smoke if she got stressed, she'd smoke after eating a meal.... it SERIOUSLY used to piss me off that I had to STOP and wait in the middle doing something so she could get her "fix".

To her credit, she quit COLD TURKEY and her "cough" is now almost non-existent. I pray we don't contend with cancer in the future....

 

[Boboclown]

What, in the name of all that's holy, is the point of abusing your body with mind-altering substances so that you can either:

a) either impress someone, or

b) escape reality?

Eh, to each their own. But there's more than those two reasons to do something.

As long as a person is considerate of others when smoking I don't really care.

 

[teflon6string]

My parents didn't smoke or drink but they had a number of those tiny airline souvenir cig packs and booze bottles. All of great curiosity to a young Teflon, disappearing one at a time.

 

[teflon6string]

Back to the smoking ads. I get a kick out of the new e-cig ads featuring a sort of Jack Bauer looking guy. Collar up ala James Dean, casually unshaven, independent, a bit rebellious and satisfied with his "freedom." Who wouldn't want to be him? Or with him?

Working downtown, I see people huddled together on designated street corners during breaks, sucking on their vaporous "binkies" as my GF calls them, some on lanyards about their necks. My son says they're robot dicks.

 

[Stomper]

LMAO... binkies... robot dicks.


I was just thinking of those little plastic Smoking Monkies you could buy at the fireworks stands back in the 70's...

 

[The B]

stupidest bubblegum on earth

 

[The B]

 

[Sgt Nambu]

One just opened up not even a mile from my house & I live out in the sticks!!!!

Hillbillies need to relax too! LOL!!!

 

[Sgt Nambu]

IIRC, and I probably don't, when smoking was banned on aircraft the the PDX airport had a Plexiglass smoking room!
It was tiny and you couldn't see people sitting on the other side of it! It looked like one of the London killer fogs of the 1950's!
I'm so glad that I quit 12yrs ago!

 

[Caveman Jim]

IIRC, and I probably don't, when smoking was banned on aircraft the the PDX airport had a Plexiglass smoking room!
It was tiny and you couldn't see people sitting on the other side of it! It looked like one of the London killer fogs of the 1950's!
I'm so glad that I quit 12yrs ago!

Me too 4 yes ago on Thanksgiving day.
Denver was one of the last smoking airports that I used to fly through.

 

[Lilhigbee]

For you Stomper!!

 

[Ura-Ki]

I remember when I started smoking, a pack of Camels was 70 cents and I swore I would quit when they went up over a buck a pack! I also remember getting Marlboro 25 packs for the same price as a regular pack! I quit when I joined the service and that lasted 13 years! I started Smoking a Pipe when I quit the Cigarettes for the last time, and have been collecting and making my own ever sense! I actually like the smell of Pipe tobacco, and I like the taste! I also like that I don't smoke very much or for very long and that the smell isn't repulsive like Cig smoke is! Even the wife likes it! I found that good pipe tobacco is getting hard to find here State side, so I end up ordering the good stuff from Denmark or Scotland, and I buy Brier blanks there when I need more for a new project! I remember back as a kid having Smoke Machines inside restaurants and that's how me and buddies got our smokes before we were old enough to buy them "legally" Merit was the choice back then, mostly because they were cheaper then the others!

 

[edslhead]

My golfin buddy just quit. He was a 4 pack a day smoker in the end. He's over at ICU Sunnyside with a tube down his nose to feed him and one in his throat to breath.He's 64.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

Nasty crap
I remember when they smoked on air planes.

 

[Oregonhunter5]

My golfin buddy just quit. He was a 4 pack a day smoker in the end. He's over at ICU Sunnyside with a tube down his nose to feed him and one in his throat to breath.He's 64.

Four packs A day???!!!
That's $700-800 per month!
Did he want to pass on quicker?