to think people that smoke are totally crazy? i cannot understand it at all how do people afford it too?

[carriedababi]

i find it totally baffling

1. it's damages your health, and that of other around you, ie your children
2. its an outrageous waste of money
3. doesn't do your looks much good

how much is a pack of 20 these days anyway?

Oh Norris, you'll hate me then because I hate shopping, couldn't care less about shoes, smoked for 25+ years, was the most addicted smoker you could hope to meet ...

... but now cannot understand why anyone would smoke! .

Don't try and justify it by saying you like it. Just admit to being an addict.

Am with Hairy but I even like whiskey. I am a slattern.

I like how shoes look, especially really high shoes, specifically boots. I love boots, I love the quirky ones. I could sit and stare at shoes for hours.

Handbags? Meh, not so fussed. But shoes, ode to my beautiful shoes.

That is a worry you massive spoil sport titty but I was only talking about affording it fiscally! (if that is even the right term). DP has been working away for the last week so will probably return in a little while with the New Scientist and I can try and avoid reading it every time I am in the bathroom as that is where the languid shitter usually leaves it.

And having read the other comments, I'd like to add that smoking is not enjoyable, pleasurable, pleasant tasting or any such thing. You just think it is as you're satisfying an addiction. Without the addiction factor, you'd realise this.

And yes, it does help keep you slim, but anyone smoking for that reason must be insane.

No see I like handbags, shoes not so much and you can put your cigarettes in a handbag, double bonus points.

I smoke I enjoy it, it's the only vice I have, I don't drink and I don't have sex, I work hard and smoking is my only enjoyment.

It doesn't cost me much anyways, but I could say why waste money on wine for all those who drink wine every night or pay for expensive make up.

Im 46 yet look 36 so it has not aged me at all. However, a friend of mine who is 33 looks older than I do and she smokes.

My sister has not been blessed with anti-aging either and she smokes and is five years younger she looks 50.

It might give me cancer it might not, but I have to die sometime, heart disease runs in my family, as does emphesemia, so if smoking don't kill me I'll have a heart attack.

Such is life.

Why not worry about your own life rather than thinking about how others live theres.

I'm not a smoker, but do feel smokers get a hard time of it. I drink beer for England but would be pretty miffed if every pint had a picture of a grossly inflamed liver on it...

At the end of the day (to quote Jeremy Kyle's guests!) both smokers and drinkers are participating in lragl pastimes. Save the scare tactics for the junkies and crackheads!

Fabby, you smoke because you are an addict and that is all.

Oh and I have been fat once, I never want to be 12 stone again. Giving up smoking which I don't want to do would see me being huge. No thanks.

I like smoking Bibbity. Of course Im addicted Im 16 and been smoking more than thirty years. To give up you have to want to, I've no reason to give up smoking.

Kids dad has never smoked, but he drank until he almost had no liver left, and is now a diabetic because of it. It isn't just smoking that kills or cost money.

Do piss me off people bleating on about smokers.

My kids hate it I can't smoke in the house downstairs, but in my bedroom I can do what I like so that is where I am now!

tittybangbang

If I spent my life being scared of all the things I could contract whether a smoker or not I'd be pretty miserable 99% of the time.

"as that is where the languid shitter usually leaves it"

"It might give me cancer it might not, but I have to die sometime, heart disease runs in my family, as does emphesemia, so if smoking don't kill me I'll have a heart attack"

If one of your dc's came home with a drug addiction and used that argument you'd give them very short shrift.

Yes - you do have to die sometime. But in your 50's? 60's? And horribly - from cancer or emphysema? No! You love your children and you won't want to leae them. You'll want as much time with them as possible surely? You are much more likely to die young if you smoke.

And I can't help but feel angry and bad for people caught up in a nicotine addiction. I feel sorry for you guys. I feel furious with the government and with cigarette companies for allowing people to kill themselves and ruin their families' happiness through this horrible addiction.

Sorry to sound a bit mad. I'm an ex-smoker myself btw. We're always the worst......

I wouldn't want to fat either..but given a choice of a) fat non-smoker or b) slim smoker, I'll go with a).

The fact of the matter is, you can be a slim non-smoker, I have been for over 5 years.

"Contract" probably the wrong word. Develop?

"Why not worry about your own life rather than thinking about how others live theres."

becauuse i care about people

None of my immediate family have died young from smoking.

My nan was 76 and smoked all her life.

My mum is 70 has had a triple bypass 20 years ago and still smokes now and has heart disease.

When my time is up, my expiry date due I will die, it doesn't matter whether I smoke or not, we have a time to die and I shall die when Im due to, whether from a car accident, a tumor, a heart attack or cancer.

I will never give up smoking whilst doing so could cause me to become fat, Im sorry but there is nothing worse for me than being fatter than I am, I am already a stone overweight, I lost 2 stone last year. I'd hate to be fat again.

Aside from that I don't want to give up. What would I do with myself other than smoke, I have no life outside of work. So thanks for the concern but I'm staying a smoker.

Besides if all those who smoked gave up there would be no national health service someone has to pay for it and smokers contribute the most to it. Lets call it paying in advance for our cancer treatment.

I love smoking. The price is disgraceful but I can afford it. I also find smokers to be a more affable group of people too.
Lights up.........

I've smoked off and on (mostly on) for the last 20 years, gave up last year because pg.

I could MURDER a fag right now.

Does anyone want two's?

Titty is it wrong that you have made me

You sound like an over-enthusiastic politican, and I mean that in the nicest possible way - I have been known to sound a bit mad too when trying to explain the delights of BF to my FF friends - everyone kinda gets it but I just get carried away

My dad died earlier this year of lung cancer. He was 81. Believe me, he was WAY too young to die. He could have gone on for another 10 years. His illness was exceptionally unpleasant, painful, undignified, awful.

Is this an anti smoking thread or a ff v bf thread?

81 is a good age, I'd not say it was too young to die, I think when people reach their mid seventies you know after that any time they get is a bonus.

I'd be happy to live until I was 75. I'd not say I had a good life, but I'd have had a long one. I don't want to live until Im 90 and my children have to be taking care of me.

I just want to live to see my children have children. To see them settled and happy with good lives.

No-one smokes because they think it's a good thing to do. We do it because we are addicted.