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Just ended 22 hours without a smoke. better than sex that first one!

smoking is not cool. it sucks.

Boo

Its cool if you can blow smoke rings, I'm quite good at it :)

This reminds me of the other week when I was checking into my hotel at Amsterdam airport. The receptionist was sensible and asked me a question that will stick with me for a long time, "Do you like to smoke?". I can only assume that she meant, would I like a smoking room but I took it a little more literal mainly for comic effect, "Yes I do, I like smoking very much!", came my reply. Then she stuck me in a room that was about another 20 minute flight from the bar! Oh well, the rough with the smooth and all that.

I agree 100% with Cal - smoking is downright stupid and definitely NOT cool. Infact, in the case of women, smoking is a real turnoff for me. Smoking is silly, a waste of money and as I said before, downright stupid.

Pah! Smoking's as good a pasttime as any

Not only is smoking cool, its big, hard and clever.

mmmm. and cancer is cool too. rock!

Everyone's got to die of something.

I enjoy smoking, why can people not accept that I have considered the concequences of my actions and have decided that I will carry on. I dont do it because I want to look cool are big and clever, I do it for the simple fact that I enjoy. Like bathing! I dont do it for anyone else, I do it for me, I enjoy being clean.

Smoking is the best thing in the world. Rolling over in the morning and lighting up a beautiful B&H is heaven.

I especially like to have a smoke with a meal. It makes the food taste even better.

You know, it's interesting...

Smokers like to smoke, non-smokers don't like to smoke. It makes sense, no? non-smokers see nothing good in smoking because they never smoke, and smokers see nothing good in not smoking because they're addicted. :-P

Smoking stinks the place out! It smells grim and unattractive!

As for the killing, do what you want to yourself, but it's a sad fact that the vast majority of smokers are UNBELIEVEABLY inconsiderate about where and when they smoke.

I agree. I think it would be a good idea if there was a "Smoking Day" set up so that all the non smokers had to smoke at least 10 fags that day. Maybe then this would convert some of them and allow the rest of us to get some peace when we're trying to have a fag.

I was coming back from Hyde Park on Sunday and some Goody-Goody bastard moaned at me for hanging out the window and having a sneaky puff. I was risking life and limb so that I did n't piss the other passengers off. ( us smokers are very considerate you know.)

urgh - i'm not getting into this

I dont smoke that much so I dont feel the need to have a crafty fag when in a non-smoking environment. I cant smoke in cramped places either as I have a fear of setting people's clothes smouldering. So all in all I think I'm considerate of everyone but myself. And just think of all that extra tax I'm paying!

I paid nearly a fiver for a pack of Bensons the other day, so does this make me a dedicated follower or merely stupid and skint?

I must admit to purchasing more than my fair share of Fabreze. ( Or Sainsburys own brand, if I have spent all my money on ciggies the night before!)

a waste of money i think

but then i dont drink either

and spend all my money on geeky technology

everyone needs their hobbies :p

Mmm, I smoke because I want to.
Although I do feel I am pretty considerate when I do.

you've haven't smoked near me in over 2 years

wait, i haven't seen you (apart from when we picked up my car) for about 2 years now

i ran into harriet last night - she said there was some sort of barbeque on friday?

yuck, smoking
not my bag thankyou, and being asmatic, not the most comfortable thing for me either.

i have an intense dislike of smoking, but as long as people are conciderate with it, then thats alright. what pisses me off is the people my age who decide they want to smoke because its 'cool'- they dont need to, theyre not that stressed or anything, they just take it up because its 'cool'.
when will they learn???

i hate the fact that when i go to the pub, even for 10 minutes, my clothes stink of cigarrette smoke and I have to wash them before i can wear them again.
i also resent the fact that because i was the only employee of blockbusters that didnt smoke, i didnt get any breaks apart from lunch and was often left on my own while they all went out the back to talk about cars and fit birds and smoke.

i'd never go out with a man that smokes, or eats marmite.. but thats a whole other discussion

Does that mean i dont get a date then jeff?

Sul: Not only can i blow smoke rings, i can do an irish waterfall too.
Stunt smoking!

jeff: you wanted to talk about cars and fit blokes?

and i hate marmite

digusting...

i can talk about cars. i have a car, its a blue one :)

i actually wanted a break from all the RUDE ARROGANT BASTARDS who live in harpenden and to have a sit down... standing up for 8 hours a day almost constantly is not fun..
as is telling an old lady that she has to get permission from her husband to use his card only to find that said husband is very much dead.

and chris, no. sorry.

Ah well, chin up

what about me? and other chris? and matt.s, sul, gary, matt.j, ell etc. ?

i guess we just live.

smoking is good, but when you are trying to give it is evil.
those cravings that you get are awful

have you been offering me around again? have you? bah. look, if a man fulfills my strict criteria and i do become single, then i'll think about it... but i have strict criteria...

heheh...i was just thinking of all these discussion topics on iamcal. They all seem to (usually) start out with a certain idea, and then they progress and evolve into something completely different.

I was wondering what a logical diagram of the progression of an iamcal discussion topic would look like (with original intent, tangents to the original idea, etc). Then we could see who is most constructive and destructive to the thought process on the site. ;-)

smoking to me is a big turn off
but I don't complain when other people smoke, I just ask that the respect the fact that I dont and not to blow it in my direction.

There is no smoking allowed in my house or my car, but that is because it is a matter of respect.

I don't like the way it makes you smell. ewww ...

but anyway ... time to get offline and in the bubble bath.

ciao

i like to think i'm good at tangents... muahaha...
and i do complain when people smoke because, no matter where i'm sat, it always seems to drift towards my face. dammit i've had 21 years (plus 9 months 'en womb') of my mother smoking and I'm fed up.. not to mention the horribly stunted growth and reduced lung capacity. dammit.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

mother...

How could I have missed this thread!

Smoking is cool! All the brands look like they haven't changed since the 60's, and you can smoke a pipe, or buy rolling tobacco, and it makes you look cool...

I'm not gonna blow smoke on other people. But I disagree with the pubs thing. Pubs are meant to be smoky. That's what pubs are!

Also Mary Jane is cool.

Woo smokers.

Who is mary jane?

Tha's bin a coortin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
Tha's bin a coortin' Mary Jane
Tha's bin a coortin' Mary Jane
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Ah, now i remember, pure yorkie magic

hello
ive just back read this thing, and jeff, did you say you live in harpenden?? as in herts??
if you do: small, strange world, i live in st albans. hmmm

yeah, she does. only she's in leiscester at uni right now

Hang on.. Did you say you live in St. Albans?

That's totally quite crazy. I also live in the fair city of St. Albans. And what a beautiful place it is. Were you lured here by the iamcal.com graffiti on the railway bridge?

Ahhh, sweet mary jane.

what about smoking a V8

We're only in Bedford ourselves Uncle Moc :)

Man, this must be Hertfordshire Forums or something!

Okay, my bad, Bedford is of course in Bedfordshire.

And I'm between the two at the moment... at work, in Luton. Man, if I fall asleep on the train in the morning and miss my stop, can I come pester you guys at your work instead...?

Like I don't do that normally.

i live near beford, but work in london village

how rare!

i don't actually remember how i came to find iamcal, but i check here every so often.
i can't say ive seen any iamcal graffiti around...

I used to live in Luton, I still get nervous twitches when my train goes through there..., and you can pop up and see me and other bedford massive peeps (cal, matt, luke etc...) anytime :)

What do you do in St. Albans then? I think the graffiti thing was a lie. The only graffiti I really know in St. Albans is "Stop the bombing capitalist opportunists" ; "Hardcore will never die!" ; and "I am Destructor!!".

Oh, and the deluge of "My name is Adam Chady" stickers.

smoking is bad for you and it is also very uncool stupid!

and graffiti is stupid too!
from me STUPID!

and im not stupid you stupid stupid head!

Smoking rocks. Because I'm aware that non-smokers have legitimate health concerns and they tend to whine on and on about them, I do my best not to make friends with them ;)

and I live in St Albans too (although I think I'm going to move to London soon)

New legislation is coming in to ban smoking in restaurants before 10pm. Nice one.

If people want to to smoke in restaurants don't get upset when i spray you and your food with air freshener or a nice phlemy cough.

cheese burgers are also very bad for you, they certainly don't make you look attractive, the smell and the ineveitable smacking noises offend those around you, the smell & the greasy stains linger, the packaging litters the streets the companies which are profitting from their sales have a blatant disregard for the damage they cause to the environment, farming, the health of the consumers, not to mention the health and safety and general well-being of their workers.

I say ban these vile, destructive things from bars and restaraunts whilst they're about it!

;)

Yeah but if somebody else is eating cheeseburgers next to you you don't smell like shit afterwards and possibly contract fatal diseases do you.

I don't mind it too much but like I said just don't complain if I cough in your face and all over your food. Same thing. It comes from inside my body and might make you ill, same as smoke.

Well I don't smake but don't have anything against anyone smoking, but do find it disgusting if they smoke around a non-smoker and cause ill health to the no-smoker. I hate going to pubs and getting covered in it.

I don't think it looks good and try to get my friends to stop smoking

I hope it does get banned in Restaurants

I've been on unfiltered rollies all week. My lungs ache now.

no, you're just destroying the environment...!
and yes they do stink, so much so in fact, that if someone eats one near me I have have to light up a fag to cover the smell up!

disclaimer: this is a silly argument, and cheeseburgers were a silly example. I think we should agree to disagree and go about our daily business :)

are you saying that burgers are not my daily business? :)

"no, you're just destroying the environment...! "

Well for one I haven't eaten a cheeseburger or any form of burger for over 10 years. Also as an environmental engineer I do more to help the environment than 99% of the people in this country.

I smoked for years and Like i said the habit doesn't bother me much, especially with all the carcinogens in fuel and so on. However, I never ever, even in my 20 a day stage, lit up a ciggarette when others are eating in a restaurant. It's moronic. Like you said we'll have to disagree on it, just prepare yourself for a big phlemgy face cough if by coincidence you ever happen to sit next to me :) .

Smoking is banned in some restaurants. Just the other day me and vic were in Burger King and they wouldnt let us smoke. They were actually quite strict about it.

Yeah it's been introduced in many restaurants in Edinburgh and I think is going nation wide. No smoking between 12 and 2 and from 6 to 10. It might just be a local thing though.

that's it, I'm going to have to just dock cigarettes out on your forehead if I ever meet you.

They do that over here too ILBM, cant smoke in some restaurants until 10. Doesnt bother me really, i just book the table for 9.30.

I think it is digusting when you sit down and eat a meal then someone lights up a fag and breaths smoke all over your dinner and makes it taste horrible, but I thought smoking was banned in all fast food joints anyway.

I have never ever smoked so I don't have a good opinion and its only one sided on this matter, so I should be perfect for an argument on this matter :)

I smoked - but didnt light up over a meal, someone did that not too long ago when I was in a restaurant and my 6 month old child was sitting in a child seat right next to them - they commented on him being cute when they entered, and when they sparked up I was very angry.

I don't blame you mate, there are some really selfish people out there. I would never stand for someone smoking in my house or my car either

Think of all that lovely free smoke his little forming lungs were getting! People who do this are scum. At least you can be happy about the fact that they are likely to die early and in agony.

I am a smoker, but i dont smoke in houses (or cars) belonging to people who dont smoke. Not unless they say it is cool to smoke.

Also, I dont bine while out eating food..I usually go outside for a bine.

Ditto.

sometimes they don't ilbm, my grandad smocked over 20 a day easily, and I grew up with him smoking with me in the same room, main reason I always avoided smoking. He died at 70 odd years but not from lung cancer, I think it was a heart attack, but only after he had started giving them up. But I suppose he was a nice man so he was spared :) If I sound all evil to him I apologise and I don't mean to be I loved my grandad

Thats why i said likely and not definitely. And all those ciggies will have contributed a large amount to that heart attack. More people die from smoke related heart disease than smoke related lung disease.

that is true ilbm

A while ago, i coined the phrase, "excuse me, do you mind not eating while i'm smoking"

It didn't go down too well.

Again don't get all upset when somebody empties a can of Haze all over you.

I won't get upset, i'll even hand them a handkerchief to help stop the flow of blood from their nose.

IS SLMIIIIKKKINGGGG
dont lke smoking then you should move
iout of the way of the smoke

SSSSU+CCKERSS!

I dont understand a word of that, is it in hebrew?

I have a sign in my car (for the passenger) that says:

"If you must smoke, please step outside"

depends wat it is u am smokin

"I won't get upset, i'll even hand them a handkerchief to help stop the flow of blood from their nose."

And then they can come and taunt you when your inthe big house. You do know what happens to pretty men like you in the big house? ;)

Maybe you're right though I guess I'll just start breaking the noses of all the smokers I come across. Is that you John Wayne?

Thats the way, ILBM. be more pro-active about it.

"get off your horse and smoke your *Ka-Thock* oww yoo bwoke by doze"

hehe

heh heh i coulddo a street theater type act, as a bonus i'd get super fit what with all the running.

Does anyone else compulsively thing of the ad from "Family Guy" whenever they read the word "smoke"?

what????

smoking is cool for several reasons,

1. it makes you look cool.

2. it's an act of rebellion

3. people who don't smoke just haven't seen the light yet

4. you can always give up if you don't like it any more

5. you should try everything once, including crack and anal sex and incest

6. it's better than driving red hot knives into yr eyes

7. you can smoke pot

8. there are lots of cool different brands

9. cigarettes, roll-ups, pipes, cigars

10. blowing smoke rings

see, smoking is the best activity ever.

Everyone knows that smoking kills you, so surely it is an act of suicude?

But so is a leper wanking with vinegar on his palms.

bah, I was hoping that ranting about drivers would take the heat off us poor harmless old smokers

what would you chose smoke or cloak?

Let me guess, you typed smoking is cool in search to dig up an old post?

actually molty I searched for SSSSU+CCKERSS

Rosie: after reading your posts i've decided smoking is ok and if i didn't already smoke id take the habit up.

Mornin' all.

Wow, if you search for "SSSSU+CCKERSS" in Google, iamcal is the only two hits! What are the chances of that!

according to google, captain james T rushdie, the chances are 2 in 4,285,199,774 or 0.0000000004667%

figroll: I've given up now. Sorry.

:(

My god!

Dr. Rushdie is trying to give up once again. It ain't not easy. The main problem is in the

Nobody likes a quitter.

Where did you get skins that say 'pub' on then? ;)

Little shop in Brighton. Sells bongs and stuff. They're from the "cigarettes and alcohol" range.

Bongs schmongs.

O cool, I'd forgotten this was the "St. Albans Reunion Thread" as well.

Yeah, never bought a bong in my life. But you can be sure they'll have a fine selection of papers in the same shop.

the aussie bucket bong.... the ultimate in smooth smooth smokes

no need to buy, just needs a bucket and an old plastic milk bottle.

errr, and some water for the bucket and some tinfoil for the cone and a knife/scissors for not-running-with and putting a hole in the lid and cutting off the bottom of the bottle

and some substances

and a lighter

and an afternoon with nothing better to do