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To give my own answers/opinions to a few of the questins and statements posed above:
~I did not choose to start smoking. I was in college, about 18yo, and when drinking with friends, they thought it was good fun to give me smokes. Within time, I realized how much I enjoyed it, and just never really stopped. Given that I did a lot of partying and went to a lot of metal/hardcore/rock concerts in dingy venues where smoking was the norm, it never seemed unusual to me to pick it up. I also am a fan of an occasional cigar, I just try to keep everything in moderation.
~I do agree with Lace, however, that not everyone who smokes is addicted. If I'm too lazy to go get smokes for a day when I'm bumming around at home, I don't. If I go on vacay with the family, I don't smoke for the duration of the trip. I've stopped for as long as 3 months, for various reasons, but I enjoy it too much to give it up entirely. It calms me when I'm stressed at work, and helps me wake up in the morning. It's a social habit as well. At this point in time, unless I'm out to the bar, I tend to only smoke about 3 cigs per day, and that's based entirely on my workday and how stressful it is. Oftentimes on weekends, I may not smoke at all, if I'm hanging out with the fam or resting up at home.
~My family are non-smokers, and my mom is asthmatic, so I do not smoke around them, and we try to go places where smoking is not allowed. Because of them, I'm grateful, even as a smoker, that more places are going completely non-smoking. To me, having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool--it spreads around the whole place anyways, even if you're seated on the far end of the room. I have plenty of respect for non-smokers, and only smoke in places I'm allowed, but to me it's only common sense to avoid smoking areas if you do not like smoke/feel icky when you're around it. Given how few places are left where you're allowed to smoke, it seems funny to me that they'd be hard to avoid.
~On the same note as above, I have no problem with non-smokers. It is the rude non-smokers who bother me. If I am allowed to smoke here and I was here first, bugger off. I do not want to listen to you complain, and yes, thank you, I am aware that smoking is bad for me. In the same vein that smokers who litter constantly, smoke where they aren't supposed to and blow smoke at others piss me off, non-smokers who impose themselves on smokers make me angry as well. It is all about having manners, and it can definitely go both ways. I may smoke, but I do not smoke in my closed up apartment, or in the common areas like the hallways--only on my balcony, or next to an open window with a fan on.
And there you have it.
/babbling
~I did not choose to start smoking. I was in college, about 18yo, and when drinking with friends, they thought it was good fun to give me smokes. Within time, I realized how much I enjoyed it, and just never really stopped. Given that I did a lot of partying and went to a lot of metal/hardcore/rock concerts in dingy venues where smoking was the norm, it never seemed unusual to me to pick it up. I also am a fan of an occasional cigar, I just try to keep everything in moderation.
~I do agree with Lace, however, that not everyone who smokes is addicted. If I'm too lazy to go get smokes for a day when I'm bumming around at home, I don't. If I go on vacay with the family, I don't smoke for the duration of the trip. I've stopped for as long as 3 months, for various reasons, but I enjoy it too much to give it up entirely. It calms me when I'm stressed at work, and helps me wake up in the morning. It's a social habit as well. At this point in time, unless I'm out to the bar, I tend to only smoke about 3 cigs per day, and that's based entirely on my workday and how stressful it is. Oftentimes on weekends, I may not smoke at all, if I'm hanging out with the fam or resting up at home.
~My family are non-smokers, and my mom is asthmatic, so I do not smoke around them, and we try to go places where smoking is not allowed. Because of them, I'm grateful, even as a smoker, that more places are going completely non-smoking. To me, having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a pool--it spreads around the whole place anyways, even if you're seated on the far end of the room. I have plenty of respect for non-smokers, and only smoke in places I'm allowed, but to me it's only common sense to avoid smoking areas if you do not like smoke/feel icky when you're around it. Given how few places are left where you're allowed to smoke, it seems funny to me that they'd be hard to avoid.
~On the same note as above, I have no problem with non-smokers. It is the rude non-smokers who bother me. If I am allowed to smoke here and I was here first, bugger off. I do not want to listen to you complain, and yes, thank you, I am aware that smoking is bad for me. In the same vein that smokers who litter constantly, smoke where they aren't supposed to and blow smoke at others piss me off, non-smokers who impose themselves on smokers make me angry as well. It is all about having manners, and it can definitely go both ways. I may smoke, but I do not smoke in my closed up apartment, or in the common areas like the hallways--only on my balcony, or next to an open window with a fan on.
And there you have it.
/babbling
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) we said "Sure". She came over, inspected our packs, and refused to accept our offer because none of us smoke menthol.
@ "peeing section in a pool." XD
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