View Poll Results: Do you Smoke?
I smoke regularly
20
23.53%
I do not smoke
59
69.41%
I smoke occasionally
6
7.06%
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14 September 2011, 07:36 AM
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- Smoking kills
- Smoking seriously harms you and others around you
- Smokers die younger
- Smoking clogs the arteries and causes heart attacks and strokes
- Smoking causes fatal lung cancer
- Smoking when pregnant harms your baby
- Protect children: don't make them breathe your smoke
- Your doctor or your pharmacist can help you stop smoking
- Smoking is highly addictive, don't start
- Stopping smoking reduces the risk of fatal heart and lung diseases
- Smoking can cause a slow and painful death
- Get help to stop smoking: [telephone]/[postal address]/[internet address]/consult your doctor/pharmacist
- Smoking may reduce the blood flow and cause impotence
- Smoking causes ageing of the skin
- Smoking can damage the sperm and decreases fertility
- Smoke contains benzene, nitrosamines, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide
14 September 2011, 09:39 AM
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Smoking is deeply unsociable nowadays, I feel the 'craze' is finally dying out. 20yrs ago had you asked this question, I suspect the answer would have been more like 80/20%
£6.70 a pack is certainly helping cut down the number of smokers too.
£6.70 a pack is certainly helping cut down the number of smokers too.
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14 September 2011, 09:54 AM
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Another ex-smoker here.
Stopped in Autumn 2005 and not a single cig since. Quite remarkable given how reliant I thought I was on them.
Now I am so glad I quit - it would cost me a fortune as I do a lot of driving and that was where I would smoke a lot.
I also fly and work on flammable chemical factories a lot - it would drive me mad not being allowed to have a smoke if I were still addicted.
Steve
Stopped in Autumn 2005 and not a single cig since. Quite remarkable given how reliant I thought I was on them.
Now I am so glad I quit - it would cost me a fortune as I do a lot of driving and that was where I would smoke a lot.
I also fly and work on flammable chemical factories a lot - it would drive me mad not being allowed to have a smoke if I were still addicted.
Steve
14 September 2011, 10:30 AM
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Now I am ex-smoker, and smoking is bad for you, and it's expensive, and etc. etc, but....
No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
Absolutely. Nothing worse than seeing a mother smoking in a car with the windows down!
True enough
So can lots of things.
Now whilst I don't disagree with the above statements, how come you see all the chav scum punting out babies like there's no tomorrow, and they all smoke like hell?
I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!
Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
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No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
So can lots of things.
I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
Geezer
14 September 2011, 10:55 AM
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Now I am ex-smoker, and smoking is bad for you, and it's expensive, and etc. etc, but....
No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
Absolutely. Nothing worse than seeing a mother smoking in a car with the windows down!
True enough
So can lots of things.
Now whilst I don't disagree with the above statements, how come you see all the chav scum punting out babies like there's no tomorrow, and they all smoke like hell? I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!
Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
Geezer
No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
Absolutely. Nothing worse than seeing a mother smoking in a car with the windows down!
True enough
So can lots of things.
Now whilst I don't disagree with the above statements, how come you see all the chav scum punting out babies like there's no tomorrow, and they all smoke like hell?
I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
Geezer
14 September 2011, 11:20 AM
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14 September 2011, 12:23 PM
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I gave up using the patches, I don't mind smokers, but I don't want it in my face.
My wife tried various methods, one of them being hypnosis. The man said something along the lines of "Would you eat a dog turd?" and made her liken it to ****.
She gave up and everytime she sees a smoker all she can envisage is a dog **** hanging out of their mouths
She loathes it!
14 September 2011, 12:32 PM
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Never had any desire to smoke, tried it and never saw what the fuss was about, cant stand the smell, it seems wierd now to get a whiff as few people I come into contact with actually smoke, my father in law did but got told if he carried on he would end up having his legs removed 
Still a few at work who all troop out for twenty mins of each hour, one dick gave up for two years and felt like he was missing out on the smoking shack chats and started again, ****.
Still a few at work who all troop out for twenty mins of each hour, one dick gave up for two years and felt like he was missing out on the smoking shack chats and started again, ****.
14 September 2011, 12:39 PM
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Now I am ex-smoker, and smoking is bad for you, and it's expensive, and etc. etc, but....
No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
Absolutely. Nothing worse than seeing a mother smoking in a car with the windows down!
True enough
So can lots of things.
Now whilst I don't disagree with the above statements, how come you see all the chav scum punting out babies like there's no tomorrow, and they all smoke like hell? I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!
Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
Geezer
No one lives for ever
Not if you are smoking outdoors, generally. People who smoke in eclosed spaces around other people, especially children is inconsiderate.
I know plenty of non-smokers who died very young, and plenty who of smokers who lived to a ripe old age. Smoking can cause you to die younger, but not everyone who smokes.
Indeed thay can
Again, not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, so it would seem that some people are more prone to this than others. Indeed, my niece got lung cancer at 16, and she didn't smoke and neither did her parents.
Absolutely. Nothing worse than seeing a mother smoking in a car with the windows down!
True enough
So can lots of things.
Now whilst I don't disagree with the above statements, how come you see all the chav scum punting out babies like there's no tomorrow, and they all smoke like hell?
I know plenty of people who are unable to have children, and none of them smoke!Living is dangerous, there's lots of horrible stuff out there, and lots of it will harm you. You've gotta die of something!
As a colleague of mine says, "keep fit, die healthy"
I don't know how people can afford to smoke though, the price of **** is outrageous.
Geezer
These are all the slogans on cig packets these days. And most of what you said didn't change the point.
14 September 2011, 12:45 PM
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One chap here exactly the same, so in the country there are probably tens of thousands of people who are actually addicted to the ritual of going for a *** as well as the nicotine itself. And it's my bloody taxes that get used to treat their heart attacks, lung cancer and God knows what else.
14 September 2011, 01:07 PM
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Don'tsmoke, and have never even tried it.
Both my parents smoked, and then my sister started. Mam & sister have since stopped.
Horrible smelly habbit. Waste of fecking money too.
Both my parents smoked, and then my sister started. Mam & sister have since stopped.
Horrible smelly habbit. Waste of fecking money too.
14 September 2011, 01:18 PM
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Ex Smoker of over 40 a day .....
Spring 1999 I packed in, just stopped and not been back.
Oddly, 2 days ago I desperately wanted a smoke ...... over 12 years since my last!!
The urge never completely dies ............ unlike smokers who don't stop - they do die, young!
Spring 1999 I packed in, just stopped and not been back.
Oddly, 2 days ago I desperately wanted a smoke ...... over 12 years since my last!!
The urge never completely dies ............ unlike smokers who don't stop - they do die, young!
14 September 2011, 01:43 PM
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My grandfather died of (smoking related) Emphysema, quite a nasty disease ... when he woke in the morning he used to open his bedroom window & cough his guts up for about 10mins, after that he lit up 
TX.
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14 September 2011, 01:44 PM
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The family from "Shameless" next door smoke under a gazebo in the garden because their landlord doesn't allow smoking in the house.
The wretched stink means I have to close my opffice window all year round now.
dunx
P.S. I never started smoking thank god.
The wretched stink means I have to close my opffice window all year round now.
dunx
P.S. I never started smoking thank god.
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