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beer.
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I used to smoke, and yes we all know its a bad habit.  but I only smoked 2-3 cigs a day.  my roommate smokes less than that, and goes good chunks of time without buying any.

what people who don't smoke don't realize is that a certain percentage of people do not like tobacco.  either it makes them sick, or doesn't give them a buzz at all.  so the next time you bash smoking, just remember, often times its not the fact that you have some sort of great willpower or are so much smarter than other people.  its that you do not enjoy cigarettes, its in your genes.  if you enjoyed nicotine like I do, then perhaps your story would be different.  for me, lighting up a cig after a hard day of classes just made the stress melt away.

also one more thing: anti-smoking ads.  why do they have to lie so goddamn much?  there are plenty of reasons smoking is bad, but apparently:

1. smoking will make you fat
2. smoking makes girls grow mustaches
3. smoking causes you to hock up huge nasty loogies
4. kids would rather eat a piece of shit than smoke a cigarette
5. cigarette companies make cigs with a "magical amount" of nicotine--just enough to get you hooked, not enough to kill you.  this is the worst.  obviously they aren't going to make a product that kills people.  are you fucking kidding me?  its the tobacco plant, people have smoked it for centuries, and yes it contains nicotine, an addictive substance but thats why people smoke for fuck sake.

so yeah I am glad I quit smoking but when I did smoke I got really tired of getting shit for it.  I guess my point can be related to coffee.  some people don't like it, and some are addicted.  I love it, but I can go without it easily.  do I think I am better than people that have to have that morning cup to function?  nope, just wired differently.

Mar 12 2008 11:53AM
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brenker
Posts: 3188 - Karma: 71

okay

Mar 12 2008 11:59AM
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kepler.
Posts: 8761 - Karma: 139
Ok....dont really see the point to your rant but I don't smoke and I never plan on starting. Maybe its partly to the brainwashing of advertisements, but I think it's because almost every smoker I talk to wants to quit but can't. And if so many people want to quit it can't be that great. I think I'll stick to herb
Mar 12 2008 1:30PM
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Keenbo
Posts: 404 - Karma: 66
thank you for pointing out what everyone already knows.  pointless thread.
Mar 12 2008 1:41PM
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Hoodbum
Posts: 111 - Karma: 10
you dont see the point cuz ppl arent hassling you about smoking all the time.
Mar 12 2008 2:07PM
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freestyler540
Posts: 13083 - Karma: 18,720
Um smoking DOES makes big smelly loogies, ask my roomate and a buddy in my group, they smell horrible and they happen to smoke...so there is a correlation

Mar 12 2008 2:10PM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
dude, just go home
Mar 12 2008 3:09PM
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SwedishMan
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 25
ya just defend people killing themselves, real smart...people that "can't" quit are stupid, anyone can do anything people can fucking lift cars off of adreniline when someone is stuck under it for fucks sake. I wish I would live to see a smoke free society but people are to fucking stupid.
Mar 12 2008 3:09PM
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Shorton
Posts: 2889 - Karma: 13
So you've pretty much said that everyone who doesnt smoke doesnt because they dont like it. Not True. Seems to me your trying to encourage people to smoke, sounds stupid if you ask me. And the adverts are backed up by thousands of scientists around the world, not proved wrong by one kid on the internet.
Mar 12 2008 3:13PM
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TZP
Posts: 874 - Karma: 61
" obviously they aren't going to make a product that kills people. " you idiot... does cancer ring any bell ?
Mar 12 2008 3:13PM
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Benedetto.
Posts: 2526 - Karma: 64
just quit but no one told me too. i hated when people nagged me while i enjoyed my newports. like i didn't know...
Mar 12 2008 3:15PM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
Obviously people that dont smoke dont like it.......
its pretty much common sense
Everyone knows smoking is bad for you, some people take the chance to enjoy the nicotine buzz they get  just like how you take the chance of dying everytime you drink a  redbull or take some common sedative to give you a certain buzz. I seriously dont understand how the fuck you think he is trying to encourage people to smoke right after he quit smoking himself.
Mar 12 2008 3:18PM
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ThaLetterM.
Posts: 8609 - Karma: 1,613
that is like saying people who do heroin are stupid because they cant just quit

nicotine is addictive, like any other addictive drug. (gaaahviously). Your body needs it to function and cannot adjust to not having, its not as simple as just quitting. Otherwise, no one would smoke. retard
Mar 12 2008 3:21PM
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Lateralis
Posts: 1228 - Karma: 332
been 2 and half months since ive stopped smoking. i was smoking close to a pack a day sometimes more if i was drinking, and no, smoking will not make you fat. it causes you to lose weight because it suppresses your appetite.
Mar 12 2008 3:24PM
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ButteredToast.
Posts: 6459 - Karma: 2,570
still smoking...
Mar 12 2008 3:26PM
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SwedishMan
Posts: 1914 - Karma: 25
No one ever said you have to quit cold-turky dumb dumb, and anyone can get over an addiction even if it take a little time.
Mar 12 2008 3:33PM
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Lineskiah11
Posts: 2029 - Karma: 21

i thought that most people said taht smoking makes you skinnier not fatter because it kind of craves your hunger for somthing to eat. ive never really heard people saying you get fat from smoking tobacco

Mar 12 2008 3:45PM
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ax_murderer
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what are you talking about? first people who do heroin are stupid. becaue they cant quit and because they do it.
second, people would still smoke even if they weren't addictive. i think this guy making a thread prooves that. i want to add a comma and retard just like you but im trying this new thing where im not a dick on ns
Mar 12 2008 3:51PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
Are you serious? Of course it's smoking but it's a completely different plant.
Mar 12 2008 3:51PM
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ax_murderer
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 30
still smoking...
Mar 12 2008 3:53PM
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unchyll
Posts: 4554 - Karma: 96
......still smoking a plant with no reported deaths nor any signs of causing cancer
Mar 12 2008 3:55PM
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ax_murderer
Posts: 3322 - Karma: 30
it causes cancer. it also has other side effects. i smoke tons of weed but still disagree that its much better to smoke than cigarettes
Mar 12 2008 3:57PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
Eat it. I've also seen studies to prove it both ways. You think cigs and weed are on the same level?
Mar 12 2008 4:00PM
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Scolson
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I disagree with #3.  Smoking makes people have nasty phlegm coughing fits and it's disgusting.

and I have no idea what #5 is saying.
Mar 12 2008 4:03PM
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ax_murderer
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idk i just think weed affects you in ways you dont realize until youve been smoking along time. its hard to say, but i just disagree when people say weeds so much better for you. cuz it isnt. so yes i would say they are both bad for you. i also think weeds more addicting, at least to me. ive quit cigarettes a bunch and stay quit for like a semester and then decide to buy a pack and do so maybe every month or so. i can quit at will. but weed....bad news bears im straight up addicted to it say what you willl 'thats impossible' but it isnt. no way. i am
Mar 12 2008 4:09PM
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Codedude
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hah, i love that.  And you can't compare coffee to nicotine.  Nicotine is a chemical addiction,  people who "think" their addicted to coffee have a mental addiction.  Doctors have proven cigarettes to be harmful to your health and hailed coffee as helping your body produce more antioxidants to combat disease and sickness. 
Mar 12 2008 4:09PM
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Snowcase
Posts: 11456 - Karma: 634
Weed is psychologically addictive. Cigarettes are physical and psychological. I smoked weed for 2 years and quit cold turkey for a month back in august then again in january. Obviously it's different for different people.
Mar 12 2008 4:50PM
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comeatmebro
Posts: 10720 - Karma: 66
i usually end up smoking like a pack or two a month, if that really. yeah probably not even a pack a month. anyways, i don't inhale the smoke and just kinda like to smoke something every once and a while. i would never buy them and only get em if someone offers me them. idk it isn't that hard to just not smoke for me though?
Mar 12 2008 5:04PM
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jibsworth
Posts: 1554 - Karma: 12
Yes smoking does not make you fat.....
Mar 12 2008 8:00PM
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VT_FLO
Posts: 3806 - Karma: 147

smoking does make you cough up huge loogies, except they're black.
and smoking does kill you. Have you ever heard of lung cancer? howabout emphysima? *sp*

but umm, other then that you're pretty dead on

Mar 12 2008 8:09PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
You wouldn't like nicotine if you hadn't have started smoking. Liking nicotine isn't in your genes.

And yes, i'm a smoker.
Mar 12 2008 8:09PM
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laxstar
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i smoked for about a year like a couple a day and the only thing i really miss is like having the cig like in my hand and that like drag feeling i dunno if it's the nicotine or what i just really miss it... and talking about it now doesn't make it any better...
Mar 12 2008 8:47PM
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jason...
Posts: 9006 - Karma: 780
smoking weed=way worse than smoking cigarettes

deal with it
Mar 12 2008 8:50PM
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UNREAL
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great input to this thread
Mar 12 2008 8:58PM
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Foxy_Grandpa
Posts: 594 - Karma: 12
you're an ignorant bitch.
Mar 12 2008 9:00PM
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Foxy_Grandpa
Posts: 594 - Karma: 12
i take that back, i hate being mean, but i also hate when people think its stupid that they cant quit. its not that easy. at all.
Mar 12 2008 9:02PM
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KingTaco
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so yeah those black fuckin lungs and shit they show u in school are fake right. tobacco companies are making money dude, they arent looking out for your health
Mar 12 2008 9:47PM
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AntifreezeSteeze
Posts: 1643 - Karma: 53
but would you eat shit instead of a cigarette? I guess theres a correlation...right?
Mar 12 2008 9:55PM
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samwise
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the add he is referring to is talking about pure nicotine... one drop of straight nicotine can kill you immediatley, but the amount in a cigarette is a lot less than that
Mar 12 2008 10:04PM
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toominator
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"cigarette companies make cigs with a "magical amount" of nicotine--just enough to get you hooked, not enough to kill you. this is the worst. obviously they aren't going to make a product that kills people. are you fucking kidding me? its the tobacco plant, people have smoked it for centuries, and yes it contains nicotine, an addictive substance but thats why people smoke for fuck sake."

when you smoke a cigarette you aren't just smoking the tobacco plant. the cigarette companies had put in additives and chemicals. they also control the nicotine levels of the plant. it would be possible for them to lower nicotine levels, but that would mean that they wouldn't be as addictive. which would mean less people would smoke. which in turn equals less profit for them.

tobacco companies do make a product that kills people. face it. all you need to do is look at the numerous studies showing the levels of carcinogens (cancer causing substances) and poisons present in the smoke. there is no way that they can argue that their product isn't bad for you. what they can argue is that you smoke on your own free will and that you knowingly smoke a product that is bad for you.
Mar 12 2008 10:06PM
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charmander
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FAIL
Mar 12 2008 10:25PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150

hahahaha dude.
I don't promote it, but Weed  is so much better for you than cigarettes.

Mar 12 2008 11:04PM
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yellav
Posts: 10056 - Karma: 1,217
educate ya self
Mar 12 2008 11:12PM
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Yauch
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Mar 13 2008 2:45AM
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BravoWhiskey5280
Posts: 4020 - Karma: 520
bull shit not liking smoke is in your genes..its 100% willpower to not smoke..its NICOTINE that gets you addicted..
Mar 13 2008 3:06AM
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kepler.
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Double fail. I'm not going to be mean or sarcastic because the only reason you say this is because your parents, the government, and your teachers have been lying to you. Better yet they were lied to by their parents and their parent's parents lied to them. So it's really not completely your fault your an ignorant asshole.
Mar 13 2008 9:29AM
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clrumivier4life
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I smoke cigars and hookah every so often and I have never tried cigarettes and I never will.
Mar 13 2008 9:40AM
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Foxy_Grandpa
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Fact: Moderate smoking of marijuana appears to pose minimal danger to the lungs. Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains a number of irritants and carcinogens. But marijuana users typically smoke much less often than tobacco smokers, and over time, inhale much less smoke. As a result, the risk of serious lung damage should be lower in marijuana smokers. There have been no reports of lung cancer related solely to marijuana, and in a large study presented to the American Thoracic Society in 2006, even heavy users of smoked marijuana were found not to have any increased risk of lung cancer. Unlike heavy tobacco smokers, heavy marijuana smokers exhibit no obstruction of the lung's small airway. That indicates that people will not develop emphysema from smoking marijuana.




http://http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/#tobacco
Mar 13 2008 10:38AM
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aprailey
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it is proven that if either of your parents smoked before you were conceived/born that you are at a greater risk to smoke/chew simply because traces of nicotene are present in you from them. so no "liking nicotne" is not in your genes but nicotene is
Mar 13 2008 11:31AM
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aprailey
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open your fucking eyes you sick brainwashed fuck
Mar 13 2008 11:34AM
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wilkesyachtingco
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dudes- you could be inhaling smoke from your campfire for all intents and purposes. its smoke going into your lungs. if you are still going to close your eyes to the undeniable fact that that is bad news, well, take another look at whos brainwashed. (hint- probably you)
Mar 13 2008 11:47AM
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