That's the point. Rights work both ways. A person's right to smoke doesn't mean I am required to deal with it. I have rights too. You choose to stink, I call you stinky and ridicule you. Right to smoke doesn't mean freedom from consequences.They can do what they want, it’s a free country.
I broke up with woman once because her cigarette breath was such a turn off…in fact I broke it off a few times
It gets in your clothes and on everything. Where I work, I can always tell when Old Smoky sneaks off campus for a cancer stick. When he comes back, all he has to do is walk down an aisle NEAR me and I know he's back, without having to see him. Smokers cannot smell that, as I know from personal experience. Everyone else has to deal with it.Smokers also have reduced olfactory sensitivity, so they don’t notice that they reek! It makes. ev laugh that they think that sucking a mint masks the odour.
My ex-girlfriend denies it’s her habit that is damaging her lungs and blames moving hazardous chemicals around when she was in the Navy. Last time I spoke to her she said she was going on the lung transplant list. She still smokes.
I tried cigarettes in middle school. It was not an awful taste. In fact, they tasted quite good. Luckily I didn't get addicted.When i used my ex’s toothpaste, it tasted of cigarettes. i couldn’t figure out how that happened. Perhaps she touched the end of the tube with her brush which she’d had in her smoky mouth.
I think smokers show weakness of character! When they first start it’s a truly awful taste…they hate it…and yet they persevere and have another and another because they think it makes them look ‘cool’. They’re worried about their appearance and think smoking makes them look good. They have no confidence in their character and use smoking as their crutch even though they know it’ll shorten or kill them and make them stink. Then the addiction kicks in…
“I’m fine, I’m not addicted, I could give up at any time…I just don’t want to…” I’ve heard that many, many times!
I'm a pipe smoker myself (no Diddy), and skribs is right. It has something to do with the fact that cigarette smoke is typically inhaled, while pipe and cigar smoke is typically not. I can probably count the number of bowls I smoke in a year on my fingers and toes.“I’m fine, I’m not addicted, I could give up at any time…I just don’t want to…” I’ve heard that many, many times!
Like I said, I could be wrong.“I’m fine, I’m not addicted, I could give up at any time…I just don’t want to…” I’ve heard that many, many times!
That’s a good pointIt shows strength of character by continuing to smoke even when being assailed from all sides by people nagging you to quit. Friends, family, the dang TV and radio. Standing up to all that peer pressure takes real strength! I won't say I could quit anytime though.....it is an addiction. But I don't want to quit so
Brothers you say?
Nobody likes a quitter, after all.It shows strength of character by continuing to smoke even when being assailed from all sides by people nagging you to quit. Friends, family, the dang TV and radio. Standing up to all that peer pressure takes real strength! I won't say I could quit anytime though.....it is an addiction. But I don't want to quit so
Bad habits indeed. Besides, according to my research of "the old masters" smoking, drinking, going to brothels and getting in street fights gives your karate "flavour" and makes it better. Master Wong here I come.
I started at 31. Quit at 42. Got up to 2 packs a day. Basically because I wanted to die. I used to 'joke' with people that it was my retirement plan. Now that I'm in treatment for PTSD, I see it for what it was. Just a bizarre form of suicidal ideation. When I quit, I just quit. Took two tries. I'm horrifically sorry for the pain and discomfort I inflicted on others while I was smoking.
Fair enough. But propping up bad actions isn't the best way to change them.
Regarding quitting, my experience was similar. Once I decided for myself that I wanted to quit, it wasn’t too bad. Just quit.
Well, a lot of workout spaces are "scent-free environments" these days, so there's a precedent for booting out the overly smelly.
A lot of people stink for a lot of different reasons, after all.
It was difficult for me. But I do not like being told what to do. Not even by myself. My addiction made me quite angry.
For different definitions of the word, yes. Many stinky people.
We had a senior nursing officer who worked on nights in the hospital where I once worked…Mr Jugaroo…who wore so much aftershave you could tell where he’d been in the hospital and which ward phones he used as they reeked of it too. We used to joke that he could be used to revive the comatose patients.
I remember a Real cocky black belt that started class with us in the early '90's. He wore a small hoop in his left ear lobe. A few classes in you could tell he took pleasure in beating the sxxt out of people. The first time I lined up against him I told him I was taking his ear ring. He gave me a look. Took a few tries but I finally got it with a good timed hook kick.
