"CAMEL" Smokes anyone..? NoneFilter

[BreguetRolex]

Both my parents smokes these bad boys and what a way to make sure your children never ever smoke.. if I was to crack the window open in the back seat while in the car, I would get yelled at while they both were puffing away.. It is one of the most disgusting habits bar none.. Check out this video on that most doctors smoke..HAHAHA


https://youtu.be/sxrCjmqRTz0

[Beo3]

We just lost my father in law to lung cancer due to his two pack a day camel habit.

Terrible to witness, and I don't understand how my wife still smokes after watching his demise.

SMH

[enjoythemusic]

Smoked those in my teens, moved to cigars and loving it. Cigars are muuuch better imho

[Bigblu10]

Originally Posted by Beo3

We just lost my father in law to lung cancer due to his two pack a day camel habit.

Terrible to witness, and I don't understand how my wife still smokes after watching his demise.

SMH

Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known to man. Perhaps even more than heroin. Very hard to break the stranglehold when you are addicted. I should know, I quit cold turkey after about 7 years of wasting money and doing harm to my lungs.

[Beo3]

I too am an ex-smoker. Started in my teens and quit in my thirties.

Extremely difficult to break the habit, and it took me two or three years to finally stop.

It's been 18 years now and I regret every cigarette I ever smoked, especially when working out.

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Bigblu10

Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known to man. Perhaps even more than heroin. Very hard to break the stranglehold when you are addicted. I should know, I quit cold turkey after about 7 years of wasting money and doing harm to my lungs.

Originally Posted by Beo3

I too am an ex-smoker. Started in my teens and quit in my thirties.

Extremely difficult to break the habit, and it took me two or three years to finally stop.

It's been 18 years now and I regret every cigarette I ever smoked, especially when working out.

I congratulate both of you Luckily, I never picked up the habit but I agree it is absolutely disgusting. Good on you guys and others that have improved your health (and probably lives) by giving it up.

[RW16610]

Congrats to both Jamie and Eddie for kicking this habit.

[Patton250]

I smoked from the age of 15 to the age of 30. It was always very difficult trying to quit when I was doing it because other people wanted me to. It was remarkably easy to quit when I actually wanted to. When you’ve had enough you’ve had enough. I remember vividly in the 1970s that people smoke absolutely everywhere from grocery stores, hospitals, restaurants, airplanes and even the teachers lounge at school. I’m pretty sure that’s the way it was for 100 straight years. I also always noticed people who are most uptight and critical about smokers are former smokers. I never understood that. Anyway if you smoke your whole life you are definitely going to leave the planet early. No doubt about it. Best not to ever start. Same can be said for drinking and eating poorly.

[GB-man]

I remember my friend in middle school smoked camels and there were these little coupons in each pack called camel bucks. The history of the cigarette market is disturbing at best.

Fortunate to have never taken a liking to them. I’m no saint though I drink beer which has its own down falls.

A handful of my friends still smoke cigs and it blows my mind. Back when going out was a thing (smh) they’d be gone half the night standing outside sucking on that paper d****

[dba]

Originally Posted by Patton250

I also always noticed people who are most uptight and critical about smokers are former smokers. I never understood that.

I'm a former smoker, from my late teens until my early thirties. I think because we know how hard it is for some to quit, we're critical because we know better.

I watched my mother in-law bend over to put on her socks and break her collarbone against the tumor on her lung. It was awful for my wife to go through this and I explained that when someone smokes for over 60 years, they don't get to die a pretty death.

My sister in-law still smokes and I can't understand for the life of me, that with all the information out there about the dangers of smoking, why people still smoke.

[BreguetRolex]

Well me, brother and sister all now in our 60's never smoked ever and I never even tried it ever. I can remember flights going to Sri lanka where all the smokers were put puffing away..CRAZY.. More DOCTORS SMOKE CAMEL then any other smokes the advertisement said. My great aunt smoked CHESTERFIELDS and that look to be a brutal as the camel...

[White Collar Boy]

Originally Posted by Beo3

We just lost my father in law to lung cancer due to his two pack a day camel habit.

Terrible to witness...

Sorry to hear that. Going through it myself with my dad right now. Rough. And yet my sister continues to smoke, while also helping to nurse for our mother who is in in-home palliative care from smoking-related emphysema.

Breguet, I remember car rides like you described too! Late nights with two glowing darts reflected in the hazy windshield.

[Andad]

Originally Posted by BreguetRolex

Well me, brother and sister all now in our 60's never smoked ever and I never even tried it ever. I can remember flights going to Sri lanka where all the smokers were put puffing away..CRAZY.. More DOCTORS SMOKE CAMEL then any other smokes the advertisement said. My great aunt smoked CHESTERFIELDS and that look to be a brutal as the camel...

So ummm...why post this thread?

Have you bought some cigarettes that I can’t afford?

[BreguetRolex]

Originally Posted by Hungry Eyes

Sorry to hear that. Going through it myself with my dad right now. Rough. And yet my sister continues to smoke, while also helping to nurse for our mother who is in in-home palliative care from smoking-related emphysema.

Breguet, I remember car rides like you described too! Late nights with two glowing darts reflected in the hazy windshield.

Setting in the back seat of the car and trying to crack the window open in the winter time and would get yelled at to "ROLL THAT DAMN WINDOW UP"..! HAH Yes glowing and stinking like hell too..

[SearChart]

My dad smoked from his early teens up to age 60, he died in 2018, stage 4 lung cancer, aged 70.

[Speedbird-1]

My Grandad smoked every day of life from 14 years old.
Survived two years in the trenches, in Belgium and France, got injured in North Africa, he told me the nurses used to get him his 'rolling baccy' and he shared his 'fags' with the doctors on the ward.
He also reckoned, the chemicals in modern ciggies weren't good news.

He passed away, at work aged 102.

Just lucky , I guess.

No doubt some wag will say, if he hadn't smoked he'd have lived to 120.

[superdog]

Just watched a close family friend waste away from lung cancer. He was buried just over a year ago. We had spent the last 7 thanksgivings together.

Dude was late 50’s. Rock solid abs. Great physical shape. Lived on Heineken, candy bars and cigarettes. Crazy genetics.

It was only months from diagnosis to the funeral. And it was heart wrenching to watch.

I quit smoking 7 years ago. So glad I did.

[superdog]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

My Grandad smoked every day of life from 14 years old.
Survived two years in the trenches, in Belgium and France, got injured in North Africa, he told me the nurses used to get him his 'rolling baccy' and he shared his 'fags' with the doctors on the ward.
He also reckoned, the chemicals in modern ciggies weren't good news.

He passed away, at work aged 102.

Just lucky , I guess.

No doubt some wag will say, if he hadn't smoked he'd have lived to 120.

Love people like your grandad. What a life he must have lived.

[AzPaul]

My father was just 55 when he died. For reasons unrelated to smoking.
But I've often thought that had he lived, that habit would have taken before his time, anyway.
He was devoted to his Camels.

[cajunron]

Originally Posted by Speedbird-1

My Grandad smoked every day of life from 14 years old.
Survived two years in the trenches, in Belgium and France, got injured in North Africa, he told me the nurses used to get him his 'rolling baccy' and he shared his 'fags' with the doctors on the ward.
He also reckoned, the chemicals in modern ciggies weren't good news.

He passed away, at work aged 102.

Just lucky , I guess.

No doubt some wag will say, if he hadn't smoked he'd have lived to 120.

Originally Posted by AzPaul

My father was just 55 when he died. For reasons unrelated to smoking.
But I've often thought that had he lived, that habit would have taken before his time, anyway.
He was devoted to his Camels.

Unfortunately or fortunately (however you want to look at it), I think in the end it mostly comes down to genes. I'm not condoning smoking; just known smokers who lived to old age, and non smokers who died young, some from lung cancer.

[Bigblu10]

Originally Posted by RW16610

Congrats to both Jamie and Eddie for kicking this habit.

Ironically the last cigarette I smoked was on the drive to meet my future wife on our first meeting at a restaurant. Never picked one up after that. BTW, she is a non-smoker and doesn't like alcohol.

[Blansky]

My dad smoked his whole life. Got addicted in the Army in WW2 because the cigarette companies were smart enough to give them away and get everyone hooked. When I was growing up most men smoked and probably 3/4 of the women. An entire generation was addicted.

I played hockey as a kid until middle teens then stopped. About that time I started smoking and chasing girls. When I was about 22 I wanted to join an adult league hockey team and skated for the first time in about 7 years. l could only do about one lap around the ice and I was on the net gasping for breath.

So I quit smoking right there and then. I used sunflower seeds, as my placebo/oral fixation and my tongue was raw and almost bleeding every night from consuming them.

My hockey improved, I weaned off the sunflower seeds and the hockey stuck and the cigarettes were done. It wasn't that tough for me because I had a reason/goal but nicotine et all are pretty nasty drugs.

Now if you're around someone who smokes, your clothes stink, your car stinks, the room stinks, and you wonder how the hell you ever lived like that.

[Patton250]

Originally Posted by dba

I'm a former smoker, from my late teens until my early thirties. I think because we know how hard it is for some to quit, we're critical because we know better.

I watched my mother in-law bend over to put on her socks and break her collarbone against the tumor on her lung. It was awful for my wife to go through this and I explained that when someone smokes for over 60 years, they don't get to die a pretty death.

My sister in-law still smokes and I can't understand for the life of me, that with all the information out there about the dangers of smoking, why people still smoke.

That’s not really what I meant. What I meant was former smokers seem to bitch the most about smoke in the air and other people smoking. It’s hypocritical on a massive scale. I didn’t mean about lecturing their children, younger friends and other family members about how important it is to not start smoking. Every parent should do that.

[sco]

I quit in 2005 along with two buddies. We have an ongoing bet that adds $50 a year to each person if they ever have a drag of a cigarette. We are now up to $750 a guy for one smoke…

Honestly the money doesn’t even matter, it’s the pride at this point…

[DonRickles]

I miss the Marlboro Man.......Have to admit, some of those cigarette commercials were THE BEST!

[DonRickles]

When I quit, it was a deal with the Mrs.! As she never smoked, and yapped at me for EVERY single one I lit!

The deal was I could buy a dream car, a Corvette!

Well, the Vette is still in my garage, cig's are gone now for almost two decades now! WOO HOO, I winned!

[daveathall]

I smoked from when I was 14 and more or less all through the time I was in the army for over 40 years, in the end, I was very good at it and smoked between 40 and 60 a day. I stopped about 15 years ago. It has cost me though, my breathing is bad, my fault, no excuses but some regret. I am an ex smoker but I do like the smell of smoke in the air. Go figure.

I wont smoke again.

[330ci]

Originally Posted by Patton250

That’s not really what I meant. What I meant was former smokers seem to bitch the most about smoke in the air and other people smoking. It’s hypocritical on a massive scale. I didn’t mean about lecturing their children, younger friends and other family members about how important it is to not start smoking. Every parent should do that.

how is that hypocritical?
it's how society gets better.
4 of the 6 people in my small family of friends smoked, now 1/6 of us smokes. and we all give him shit about it. everyone who quit prior to me gave me a hard time when I smoked, eventually I was able to quit myself, but likely never would've had those around me not been kind of jerks about it.

there's nothing wrong with calling out poor behaviors once you've corrected it. it takes like a month to get over nicotine, it's really not that bad with even the slightest bit of self control. and once you've done it, it's quite aggravating realizing others are constantly killing themselves instead of taking a bit of initiative for their health.

[BreguetRolex]

My father died in 1973 at 42 years old from leukemia but smoked 2 packs a camels a day until he died. Not sure if the leukemia was related to the camels or just bad luck. But I tell you what, me and my brother and sister and all of our kids and grandkids with not a single one of us smoked or ever did.. What others do is there choice just like making poor diet choices and to each his own.

I have played this camel video a lot of times in total disbelief... !

[Bigblu10]

Originally Posted by BreguetRolex

My father died in 1973 at 42 years old from leukemia but smoked 2 packs a camels a day until he died. Not sure if the leukemia was related to the camels or just bad luck. But I tell you what, me and my brother and sister and all of our kids and grandkids with not a single one of us smoked or ever did.. What others do is there choice just like making poor diet choices and to each his own.

I have played this camel video a lot of times in total disbelief... !

FWIW cigarette smoking was glamorized and in vogue in the 1950's and 1960's. It was in most movies, TV shows and everywhere else back then. Times have certainly changed, big time.