Good thing I don't smoke.

[Pyrius]

I actually started smoking for two reasons.
1. To help kick a really bad drug habit
2. I used to work in a bar, I was around smokers constantly and being the bouncer, it helped to calm me nerves.
Pretty stupid reasons but thats why. I make no excuses or apologies, I think people shouldnt smoke but, hey, to each there own.
I also look at it as keeping someone employed. Somewhere back on down the line, someones livelyhood depends on cigarettes and, more importantly, the people who buy them. Im not talking the corporate execs but the workers in the plants and the tobacco growers themselves.....
Dang that sounded preachy...Sorry.

[ 09-17-2004, 08:00 AM: Message edited by: Pyrius ]

[RevRuby]

Originally posted by Pyrius: 2. I used to work in a bar, I was around smokers constantly and being the bouncer, it helped to calm me nerves.

wrong answer! ok i know it feels like it calms your nerves, but in reality it raises you blood pressure and causes you much more anxiety. i hate hearing intelligent people make that statement. most of them knowing it doesn't really help. a quick walk, or a journal or someone to talk is much better, and more helpful, in most situations.

i hope you quit pyrius. in all my life my mom didn't quit til my erilyn was born, and i know she wishes she could have before. she still get bronchitus from colds and stuff effecting her damaged breathing passages.

[Intrepid]

Originally posted by RevRuby: quote: Originally posted by Pyrius: 2. I used to work in a bar, I was around smokers constantly and being the bouncer, it helped to calm me nerves.

wrong answer! ok i know it feels like it calms your nerves, but in reality it raises you blood pressure and causes you much more anxiety. i hate hearing intelligent people make that statement. most of them knowing it doesn't really help. a quick walk, or a journal or someone to talk is much better, and more helpful, in most situations.

i hope you quit pyrius. in all my life my mom didn't quit til my erilyn was born, and i know she wishes she could have before. she still get bronchitus from colds and stuff effecting her damaged breathing passages. [/QUOTE]Sometimes it is easier to have a drug do something you would rather not, or even for a placebo effect

[RevRuby]

except of course placebo's are harmless, so nicotine cannot be put in that category

[ 09-17-2004, 10:18 AM: Message edited by: RevRuby ]

[Dirty Meg]

The thing anti-smokers seem to be missing is that while ciggarettes shorten your life, the time you lose comes off the end of your life. If, by leading a healthy lifestyle, I could be 17 again I might consider it, but all you get out of not smoking is a couple of extra years of being 80.

[ 09-18-2004, 01:13 AM: Message edited by: Dirty Meg ]

[SecretMaster]

Originally posted by johnny: It only kills the WEAK braincells, so in the end only the stronger cells survive, same with alcohol. Matter of fact, ESPECIALLY with alcohol. So you see, drinking and smoking basically makes you stronger in the long run.

Two days later, johnny wakes up discovers all his brain cells are gone.

[Felix The Assassin]

Originally posted by Dirty Meg: The thing anti-smokers seem to be missing is that while ciggarettes shorten your life, the time you lose comes off the end of your life. If, by leading a healthy lifestyle, I could be 17 again I might consider it, but all you get out of not smoking is a couple of extra years of being 80.

Add a good diet, exercise routine, and a healthy relationship, and Bam, your 80 something for a mighty long time! Then again, it just ain't the same as 17 is it?

[silencer]

Might as well put your mouth to an exhaust-pipe and imagine it's a bong, you'll still get high. Puff, puff, explode.

silencer

[Intrepid]

yeah, but i don't think CO2 would have any good effects, well nothing that would justify it's use other than to comit suicide.

Smoking offers something, i don't exactly know but it does.
Actually i've allways though other than the outright benifits (yes there are some benifits) of smoking it gives; an excuse to leave something eg a family party or something , makes you look like your doing something when you're just waitng or something, and there is that obvious image reason although i don't like that one.
Maybe it's not worth it, maybe it is, noone is forcing you to take it up, it's all your choice (i know it's more complicated than that i'm just saying people are allowed to smoke and so long as they don't do it in public venues etc i don't see any problem with just leaving it alone).

[johnny]

Originally posted by SecretMaster: quote: Originally posted by johnny: It only kills the WEAK braincells, so in the end only the stronger cells survive, same with alcohol. Matter of fact, ESPECIALLY with alcohol. So you see, drinking and smoking basically makes you stronger in the long run.

Two days later, johnny wakes up discovers all his brain cells are gone. [/QUOTE]Who needs them anyway.