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mikemover · #1 06-23-2004, 12:04 PM

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Originally posted by MT_Merc
The thing that annoys the heck out of me is how you can't listen to radio anymore without hearing "If you don't talk to your kids about smoking." You hear about it more than drugs or alcohol, let alone promiscuity/STDs, etc. I'm not tobacco advocate, but I get sick and tired of hearing all that while it seems that the beer companies can practically get away with murder.

Smoking kills more people in this country than any of those other things.

Mike

sfloriII · #2 06-23-2004, 12:35 PM

Years back and recently out of school, I would smoke a couple a day. I worked a full time job and at a restaurant which was about 65 hours a week. It was simply the stress.

That lasted about a year, then I just stopped and never did it again.

My late father smoked up to five packs of Camels a day and would routinely pop the filters off beforehand. Seeing him in the hospital with a nurse sticking a tube down his throat to suck the phlem out so he could breathe is enough to prevent me from ever thinking about it again. And even as sick as that, he would ask me to smuggle cigarettes into the hospital for him!

That Guy · #3 06-23-2004, 02:28 PM

Un-apologetic smoker but also try to be a polite smoker. Half a pack a day (Camel Lights) and I started when I was old enough to know better. I'll quit when I'm ready because trying to quit prior to being ready is futile and only serves as negative reinforcement.

I figure I better quit before having kids.

rickg · #4 06-23-2004, 04:03 PM

Sounds like my oldest daughter...."I'll quit before we start having kids."

Yeah, right

(to her, not you)

davidmash · #5 06-23-2004, 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Freestyler
I for one, am defintely not in denial. It's a calculated risk. -Like taking your car on the road.. You KNOW someone will get hurt or killed in traffic today. You just hope it won't be you.. And it doesn't keep you from doing it. Right?

Freestyler

I do not believe that is a valid argument. Some risks, one could argue are necessary. Getting to work is. Getting in the shower is a risk but I do that as well. Smoking is not necessary, it is something a person chooses to do. Like playing Russian Roulette.

Besides, last I heard, far more people die from tobacco related illnesses that from cars.

davidmash · #6 06-23-2004, 05:38 PM

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Originally posted by That Guy
Un-apologetic smoker but also try to be a polite smoker. Half a pack a day (Camel Lights) and I started when I was old enough to know better. I'll quit when I'm ready because trying to quit prior to being ready is futile and only serves as negative reinforcement.

I figure I better quit before having kids.

Hopefully you will grow old enough to be with your kids when they graduate high school and college, get married have your grandkids.... OH yea, and grow old with your wife.