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Smoking clicky poll
Just curious based on responses to LTP's post.
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Re: Smoking clicky poll
I want a special snowflake.
I was good for one a night when I was getting a really good load on. And briefly at my last job I tried to be a "smoker" just to get the out of the office twice a day.
I think I have had one since Baby Numbers (please see, smoke when I get a really good load on).
I'm a "never have, never will".
I have endured my fair share of 2nd hand smoke though which is why my asthma dr said that I have the lungs of an 80 year old. Spending 24 years of my life living with my dad who smoked Lucky Strike cigs was bad news bears. He never smoked in the house (thank God) and always went outside but I was still around it outside and in the car.
Smoking was never something that appealed to me, even in high school when everyone else was smoking.
ETA: I'll add a smoking pet peeve. I hate when I'm sitting at a traffic light and the person in the car in front of me is smoking. I hate when their smoke gets sucked into my car (mainly in the winter when I have the heat on) and then I have to open the windows to air THEIR smoke out. vom.
I smoked here and there. Like 5 a year if that and that was years ago.
I watched my favorite uncle died from lung cancer 2 years ago and I'll never get over that. I despise cigarettes.
I hate hate when Shop Rite employees sit outside the front of the store and I have to walk through a cloud to get into the store.
I'm special too.
I bought a pack of cigs in 5th grade and it took me a whole month to smoke them. After that I didn't smoke again until college...and that was 1 cig every few months while wasted with my one smoker friend. When I met DH 7 years ago, we made a pact that I wouldn't smoke anymore and he wouldn't dip. I haven't smoked since.
Ditto. Watched my dad die from Pancreatic Cancer from smoking. I'm going to sound like a giant b!tch right now but I just don't get why people still to this day, smoke. I completely understand how it's addicting and is super hard to quit but I dunno... I just can't wrap my head around it. Probably because of my own personal experience though and having seen what my dad went through.
Had my first cig when I was 12. Started steady smoking when I was 15. Quit a month shy of my 29th birthday.
Have been lecturing my nephews and basically any kid that comes in my crosshairs never, ever, ever to do anything just because your friends will think you're "cool" for doing it.
Ditto Amy#'s. I smoke when I get a good load on. But never buy a pack. I buy one pack maybe once a year for my college gal GTG's and it feels super weird as someone who used to be a full-time smoker from 13-25. I bummed cigs from DH until August '09 when he quit. He smoked 2 packs a day and I was down to 1-2 per day at that point. Now I have maybe 1 every three months.
I was a solid smoker from 16-20. Been smoke free for 7 years.
I wish I could be one of those people that smokes only when drunk, but I know that if I started social smoking, I'd pick it right back up again.
Never tried, don't plan to.
I have an addictive personality, so I'm glad I never had any desire to try smoking.
I also watched my grandmother, who lived with us, die of lung cancer a few years ago (she wasn't even a smoker herself actually). I agree with HW re not being able to fathom how people can continue to smoke these days with all the info we are armed with. Addition is a horrible thing.
As a math person, I take offense with that. ;-)