Do You Smoke? - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Jim B. · #31 05-02-2013, 12:21 AM

I only smoke automobiles that are slower than my Mercedes Benzes.

aklim · #32 05-02-2013, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

Used to smoke cigars about 35 years ago but never inhaled. (...heh heh, me and Bill Clinton).

You and Bill Clinton had a thing going? Thought he only went with women?

aklim · #33 05-02-2013, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by sloride

Can't just respond to the poll without adding this. An associate of mine who finally passed from lung disease from being a heavy smoker said his doc told him that if he started smoking after the age of fifty five it may have beneficial impact, as it opens the capillaries reducing blood pressure. The reasoning around that theory is starting late in life it will not have the duration to contribute to lung disease. I have not asked my doc yet if I need to start smoking to lower my blood pressure.

For lowering blood pressure, there are other drugs. Parkinson's Disease, OTOH can be helped by smoking.

Smoking lowers Parkinson's disease risk | Reuters

cmac2012 · #34 05-02-2013, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

Tobacco: Cigarettes, no. Occasional cigar, yes.

Cigarettes smell weird. Cigars smell good.

sassparilla_kid · #35 05-02-2013, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by mgburg

Freudian slip?

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Originally Posted by Mike D

Are you inferring the sasparilla kid wears women's undergarments?

Derp. Yes I meant plants, with an "L". I had 14 different varieties growing in a tray and they seemed pretty happy and healthy and then one day when they were an inch or so tall I leave for a few hours and they're all burned and dead when I come back

t walgamuth · #36 05-02-2013, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sassparilla_kid

Derp. Yes I meant plants, with an "L". I had 14 different varieties growing in a tray and they seemed pretty happy and healthy and then one day when they were an inch or so tall I leave for a few hours and they're all burned and dead when I come back

You should have told her they smoke better when dried out.

SwampYankee · #37 05-02-2013, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by cmac2012

Cigarettes smell weird. Cigars smell good.

I tend to agree. I've never had any interest in smoking cigarettes (my grandmother died from emphysema at 60 when I was a little punk-she was fairly miserable for the years I remember her-so the dangers were well known to us), but there are some that don't smell that bad. Not sure if it differs by brand, flavor, filter or what. Most of them stink.

SwampYankee · #38 05-02-2013, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by sassparilla_kid

Derp. Yes I meant plants, with an "L". I had 14 different varieties growing in a tray and they seemed pretty happy and healthy and then one day when they were an inch or so tall I leave for a few hours and they're all burned and dead when I come back

As odd as it sounds, that wouldn't seem that odd around here. At least for cigar tobaccos. CT Shadegrown is grown on farms along the CT River valley (if anyone has flown into Hartford/Springfield (BDL) and seen those big fields south of the airport covered by white covers, that's the Shadegrown) for for wrappers of some of the world's finest cigars. And there are a number of small family farms growing scattered throughout the valley that grow it for wrappers and filler. Used to be many school projects on the subject, now it's probably taboo.

sloride · #39 05-02-2013, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by spdrun

Wha? As far as I know, nicotine causes capillaries to constrict, not relax. (And why not just use a nicoderm for the beneficial effects without the risk of lung damage?)

I am not sure if it's the nicotine that has that effect but I thought once you got addicted to the cigarettes you wouldn't have to remember to take your blood pressure medication kind of a bonus by being addicted to it.

sloride · #40 05-02-2013, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by aklim

For lowering blood pressure, there are other drugs. Parkinson's Disease, OTOH can be helped by smoking.

Smoking lowers Parkinson's disease risk | Reuters

Thats two reasons to start now before it's to late.

dynalow · #41 05-02-2013, 09:32 AM

Smoking is for losers.
You lose your money daily and, eventually, you lose your health.

But, it's a free country. Have at it fellas.......and remember Forrest Gump's mother's words.

CDCStreamingHealth - YouTube

To the non- or reformed smoker: It all stinks.

cmac2012 · #42 05-03-2013, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SwampYankee

I tend to agree. I've never had any interest in smoking cigarettes (my grandmother died from emphysema at 60 when I was a little punk-she was fairly miserable for the years I remember her-so the dangers were well known to us), but there are some that don't smell that bad. Not sure if it differs by brand, flavor, filter or what. Most of them stink.

Might be the papers that taint the smell, more likely the chemicals added.

Medmech · #43 05-03-2013, 07:18 PM

Started smoking in the Army and continued until last year and decided to quit, only a day after that the smell of cigarette smoke made me nauseous and the rest is history. I constantly ask myself if quitting was so easy why didn't I quit years ago.

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