To LOVE smokers

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Honestly, I love people who smoke. They tend to be way more interesting than non smokers.

I like the way smoking smells too.

Mmmm lovely fags.

Tiggy - sorry petal, you're wrong. Judging people on their choices is wrong because unless you've been in their life, walked in their shoes as they say. Who are you to pass judgement on what choices they make?

We all have our own boundaries of what is "right" and what is "wrong" but others only exist amongst their own experiences.

Live and let live brother

In the days when workplaces had smoking rooms, the smoking rooms were always filled with chatting and laughter during breaktimes. All sorts of people who would not normally come into contact with each other met there and many became very good friends. Lots of non-smokers would sit in the smoking room as it was so much more friendly and fun. Chat about so many things from politics to knitting went on there. You learnt odd bits of information like bees have fur on their eyes; good days. People are far too uptight and intolerant and unfriendly now.

Warehouse 13 is on Netflix, I caught the last few episodes of the last season and got hooked so started watching it on there

Tiggy, do you really believe that smokers are stupid? Some of our cleverest minds smoke!

Being a smoker doesn't make people less intelligent. Nor does it make them less loving, funny or kind than non smokers. The only difference is that at one point in their lives, smokers were given a fag and it worked for them.

Peace and love to all the smokers and non smokers.

God I miss Marlboro Lights. Lovely faaaaaaags.

Jeysus, really. I'm an old woman, I love fags, I love smoking, my people smoke, they have PHDs, they've smoked for years. I know many smoking academics.

Are we stupid?

I know an A & E consultant who is so riven with guilt about the state of the world, he won't have babies.

Every Doctor know smokes, they do.

I really couldn't give a rat's ass about what you do.

I miss smoking.
I gave it up because obviously it would make me die (see - not stupid) but if the scientists came out tomorrow and announced 'gee sorry folks we got it all wrong - smoking doesn't actually cause cancer, it was something else' I'd be at the corner shop in about 10 seconds flat.

I used to smoke - full-tiime for about ten years, then as a 'social' smoker after my first baby, (with 9 month gap for pregnancy naturally) then stopped completely when pregnant with my second 5 years ago. I do miss it still, especially sometimes when I've had a drink - nothing goes together like a glass of red wine and a fag. And whenever I meet a smoker, I usually find a way to identify myself as an ex-smoker - I still want to be in their gang! And definitely most of the interesting people I know either still smoke or used to.

I don't think smokers have any idea of how vile they smell.

My name is Marylou and I am a smoker....

he won't have babies.

Well, that's an easy choice for HIM, isn't it?

Leopard tried two bags/slow pouring this morning and I have to say that's the most satisfying cup of tea I've ever had

We only have one solitary set of friends now who smoke in their flat and let other people do so.

No prizes for guessing where the magic happens on a Friday night.

I smoke and I'm not stupid - I have a PhD. However, I don't feel good or relaxed about smoking. I have Generalised Anxiety Disorder and my addiction grew into an obsession, as in I would feel suicidal if I tried to stop. Had I known I'd end up feeling like this when I started, I would never have gone near a fag, ever.

Addicts aren't stupid - my case maybe sounds a bit OTT but smoking has definitely been tied up with my mental health for a long time. I wouldn't ever judge anyone who smoked but I would definitely try to discourage anyone from starting.

I'm attempting to move away from fags with vaping now and feeling good about it (fingers crossed).

Heh it's true... I have much fewer visitors when it's colder because I don't allow smoking in the house despite being a smoker. The garden just doesn't do it for people

My DH and I spent a fortune having an (open) porch built where we smoke...never in the house as we have DCs....Some days when the rain is pouring in (depending on wind direction)we do wonder why we bother...But I don't drink and get fed up with some of my friends who go on about smoking and get well and truly hammered at least 3 nights a week...

My dad is currently back in hospital with COPD. Mum is stressed to hell. Family in chaos. Everyone in his ward and the wards on either side of him have one thing in common. Decades of heavy smoking.

I hope he enjoyed every single fag as it's going to kill him before he's 70.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/05/05/letting-go

David Sedaris on being a smoker. Ok, the brands he mentions are American, but you know what he means.
Long but well worth a read.

Thirty years ago, I would have agreed with you. Well that's what my mum said, (before she died young- smoking related)
Now, if I like the smoker, I think 'poor you' and if I don't know them, the ones in the street, I think 'you revolting fecker, piss off..'

Yeah I loved watching seeing my nana with a collapsed lung and oxygen tank brought on by her own smoking and passive smoking.

But superfly, she was interesting, way more interesting than non smokers. Handing over hundreds of pounds a year to a murderous corporation for something that slowly will kill you makes you kind of special (deluded?) apparently.

Don't you have your own " we hate smokers" thread??

My dad had emphysema when he died which can't have helped. He made his choices. Some people get addicted to food, and they die of heart attacks, or they just get cancer no matter what. Obviously smoking gonna get you if you keep doing it.
My mum still smokes. It will probably kill her down the line. She would rather that than live to be 90 with alzheimers for 25 years like her mum.
I don't like her smoking, but it's her life.

I didn't know this was a taat!

I will find the other one and be among my people ;)

People with obesity cost the nhs a fortune, people with alcoholism do too...blah blah. I had an auntie who lived to 102 and smoked... still doesn't stop the pain of watching someone you love struggle to breath, my children's terror when grandad suddenly collapses in front of them, the sheer pointlessness of it all.

You might gather it's a bit of a sore point right now. And the whole thing was totally preventable. That's the bit that really really gets on my tits.

who go on about smoking and get well and truly hammered at least 3 nights a week

I thought something like that. It's hard to take smug lifestyle advice from someone who says "it's Friday! time to get drunk" and "I drive better when I've had a couple of drinks"

There's little evidence for passive smoking, but the effects of what you might call passive drinking are well known. thousands each year killed on the road, probably 100s of thousands injured in the street or home by violent drunks.

Yet drinking is considered cultured by many.