Smoking been a few threads lately

[Maleg]

Originally Posted by Blansky

I smoked from about age 15 to about age 24. Such a dirty nasty habit. I smoked about 25 cigs a day (a pack) and if I went out to a bar at night I'd probably chain smoke another pack. Basically the only ones I really enjoyed were the ones with the first morning coffee and the one after a meal. The rest were just habit and social interactions with other people who we'd light up with.

We didn't realize how bad we smelled, our clothes and hair reeked of the stuff and our houses and cars did as well.

So glad that it went out of favor mostly because smokers inflict it on everyone around them.

My understanding of one of the reasons it caught on so much during the 1950s was that cigarettes were given free to soldiers during WW2 and they all came home addicted and soon their wives and girlfriends were addicted to. And it was also glamorized by Hollywood movies.

No one really knew till later on how unhealthy it was or how it was being manipulated by tobacco companies to addict people.

I think the health risks of smoking were known before the war. My grandad was told by his doctor to quit in the 1930’s. But, you are right about the GI’s getting hooked. Cigarettes came in the rations. No sleep, not enough to eat, and battlefield stress made it easy to get addicted to nicotine. Glamorizing smoking in the 50’s and 60’s made it aspirational for American youth.

[Blansky]

Originally Posted by Maleg

I think the health risks of smoking were known before the war. My grandad was told by his doctor to quit in the 1930’s. But, you are right about the GI’s getting hooked. Cigarettes came in the rations. No sleep, not enough to eat, and battlefield stress made it easy to get addicted to nicotine. Glamorizing smoking in the 50’s and 60’s made it aspirational for American youth.

I agree the health dangers had been known but not really medically acknowledged. Look at all the doctor ads advertising what they smoked.

The insidious thing about it was that everyone knew older people that had lung issues, but people could smoke for years before it really showed up and then it was too late.

The young think they're invincible so that doesn't help either.

[TimeToGo]

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Late 70's the U.S. Army would provide cigarrettes in the C-Rations..

Good for trading.

[Dr. Robert]

I prefer to smoke left wing Luckies


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[Dan Pierce]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

I prefer to smoke left wing Luckies


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[Moondoggy]

Ash trays in cars still make me smile, still remember the car full of smoke as a kid. Windows up of course.

[Blansky]

Growing up in Canada we had 25 packs of cigs in a thin cardboard package.

When I saw people in the US with their smaller and more paper-like packaging smacking their cigarette pacs before they open them. I always wondered WTF. We never did that.

What is this ritual actually accomplishing. I know cigarettes are bad but why are people spanking them before they smoke them?

Some say they are packing the tobacco and others are saying they are loosening it.

I guess this is the straight dope.......although nobody seems to agree. lol

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do...ly-work/100897

[Tri-Tip]

I never smoked (maybe a cigar every year or two), but when I was in my first office job, early 80's, the woman that sat near me chain smoked. I remember the ceiling tiles above her desk were stained yellow from all the smoke. People would call her "sir" on the phone because he voice was so raspy from smoking for many years, she would get very upset.

[Blansky]

Some of the worst investment advice I’ve ever gotten was getting into the ash tray business and the carbon paper business.

I’ll never learn.

[Dan Pierce]

A cigarette once actually saved my life. Many years ago I was getting ready to leave our weekly Thursday night gig and just about to open the front door when I looked at my geetar player and said "let's have one & talk about it" [my euphemistic way of bumming somebody else's smokes]. As soon as I turned around we heard a huge crash and dust flying everywhere. A car had just sideswiped the bar entrance and I would have been his new hood ornament had I not turned around for a smoke.
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[Moondoggy]

Originally Posted by Dan Pierce

A cigarette once actually saved my life. Many years ago I was getting ready to leave our weekly Thursday night gig and just about to open the front door when I looked at my geetar player and said "let's have one & talk about it" [my euphemistic way of bumming somebody else's smokes]. As soon as I turned around we heard a huge crash and dust flying everywhere. A car had just sideswiped the bar entrance and I would have been his new hood ornament had I not turned around for a smoke.
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Music truely has been good to you through and through.

[Dan Pierce]

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

Music truely has been good to you through and through.

Beyond my wildest dreams.
dP

[austinp]

I remember as a kid grocery shopping on the Navy base we would pull 2 carts with 1 of them a third full of Lucky Strike cartons. My dad quit cold turkey at 51 when my sister told him he couldn’t smoke around his first grandchild.


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[enjoythemusic]

Without a doubt smoking saved me from some 'bad' relationships with women. Ladies who don't mind me smoking cigars tend to be more understanding imho.

[Blansky]

I read an article some time ago about when smokers were chased outside by companies with no smoking rules newly in place.

And the people banished could be CEOs all the way down to the mailroom people as they huddled outside the back door, sharing a smoke.

And the congregation of these people led to some job promotions as the various people mingled and got to know each other as people and not as any sort of hierarchy.

And when opportunities arose they'd often get a boost up the ladder.

[Barbara_C]

I was never a "heavy" smoker.....I started in high school 72-73? ......There was so much smoking back then they had a "smoking ramp" between some buildings trying to keep kids from smoking in the restrooms. I smoked to try and keep thin like most girls. I was in shock by all the medical workers who smoked "nurses,techs....etc" I smoked my last cig around 1985ish....now I'm im a hard core non smoker......but I never smoked a pack a day but 6-7 a day so a pack would last me about 3 days.
I remember the teachers and kids all lighting up in HS,,,,and the FFA boys with that nasty "Skoal" and chewing tobacco. At my 20 year reunion......one FFA boy/man was missing the whole right jaw from cancer from Skoal.

[kieselguhr]

Restaurants.

Smelling cigarettes while eating isn’t exactly a fond memory but I was reminded of what it was like while on vacation in Greece.

[SearChart]

I only smoke reefer, and I will be arrested if I try smoking that anywhere.

[Andad]

It always surprises me that you post this on line Bas.

I guess it must keep your hands steady?

We have random testing at work places.

[SearChart]

Originally Posted by Andad

It always surprises me that you post this on line Bas.

I guess it must keep your hands steady?

We have random testing at work places.

Breaking the stigma. We're allowing alcohol so something less harmful should be allowed too.

Obviously I live in a place where it is legal, Germany now legal too. In Geneva it was surprisingly prevalent and tolerated.
But when I'm in the UK or Scandinavia I have to watch out and stay away from it, because you'll get arrested.

I don't drink alcohol at work or when I'm going to operate a vehicle, same goes for weed. Yet one is taboo and the other is normal

[Speedbird-1]

In Belgium in the 60's, it was common practice to smoke between courses at meal times, at home, at work, or in restaurants.
At a company canteen, there was wine available from breakfast through the day, and cigarette machines all across the site.

As a recovering tobaccoholic, I can stay, without a trace of irony, it's a disgusting, filthy habit, that has killed many.
If it was 'invented' today, I suspect it would be banned, though the vaping business seems to be expanding, unabated.

I understand 'fags' are £15 for a pack of 20 these days!!
I can remember the outcry when, in the 70's the price was increased to 50 pence (ten bob ) for twenty.

I once heard a Philip Morris executives unguarded remark, that he wouldn't allow his children to start, "that dreadfully dangerous, filthy habit". That was the day I smoked my last 'ciggy'.

[piratfisk]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

I once heard a Philip Morris executives unguarded remark, that he wouldn't allow his children to start, "that dreadfully dangerous, filthy habit". That was the day I smoked my last 'ciggy'.

I once heard someone say "no, only the poor smoke" and that shook me TBH. It was meant as a denigration, obviously, but it could be taken to mean that anyone with a poor sense of self, health, etc. not just finances.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by piratfisk

I once heard someone say "no, only the poor smoke" and that shook me TBH. It was meant as a denigration, obviously, but it could be taken to mean that anyone with a poor sense of self, health, etc. not just finances.

Or, simply pure, unadulterated, ignorance.

[Dr. Robert]

Originally Posted by SearChart

Breaking the stigma. We're allowing alcohol so something less harmful should be allowed too.

Obviously I live in a place where it is legal, Germany now legal too. In Geneva it was surprisingly prevalent and tolerated.
But when I'm in the UK or Scandinavia I have to watch out and stay away from it, because you'll get arrested.

I don't drink alcohol at work or when I'm going to operate a vehicle, same goes for weed. Yet one is taboo and the other is normal

I only smoke cannabis on days that end with Y.


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[Dan Pierce]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

I only smoke cannabis on days that end with Y.


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Or days that start w "T"; today tomorrow, Tuesday, Thursday, Thaterday, & Thunday.
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[White Collar Boy]

Originally Posted by SearChart

Breaking the stigma. We're allowing alcohol so something less harmful should be allowed too… I don't drink alcohol at work or when I'm going to operate a vehicle, same goes for weed. Yet one is taboo and the other is normal

I abstain from both, but well said Bas.

[colpol]

I was once in an indian restaurant in Glasgow when a work colleague lit up about 10 seconds before the starters arrived. He held his fork in his right hand & cigarette in his left as eating.

[Moondoggy]

I am sure some Singaporean’s will chime in over there, you have to smoke within the designated yellow squares on the pavement……..except some locals get around the “laws”.

While it kills many, many smoke into their nineties, however that is genetics another topic.

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by Moondoggy

While it kills many, many smoke into their nineties, however that is genetics another topic.

True Berty, Genetics.
My Grandad smoked as a 14 year old, served in WW1 in the trenches at 16, fought in the WWII North African campaign.
Smoked every day of his life, and died 'at work' (his own printing business) at 102 years old.
He'd say, "they were 'roll-ups and didn't have the cancer put in the tobacco in those days"..so, it was ok to smoke.

[enjoythemusic]

Am cool with smoking...
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...it's you meat eaters i don't understand

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