Finding smoking a really sad thing to do?

[ClaudiaAndHerFringe]

Unreasonable or not? I don't get it, and I feel sorry for people outside getting a fix in the rain, it just looks a bit sad really.

And?

Smoking is fantastic. I have never looked cooler than when I smoked, and it’s an amazing way to stay skinny. I regularly wish I didn’t care about my health so that I could take it back up. Nothing beats a strong, black coffee and a cigarette for breakfast somewhere beautiful like a terrace in Nice

So don’t do it.

I was ice cold when I smoked. I’m quite sad and uncool now.

If I had a strong black coffee and a cigarette for breakfast I would be in the loo all morning. Is that why it keeps you skinny?

I actually took up smoking in the south of France - outside a small cafe in St Paul de Vence - aged 19 - the fag and coffee diet - those were the days! Ditched fags years ago along with my care free youth

God I loved smoking. If it wouldn't kill me I would start again immediately

We can all name things we think are sad that other people do, most of us just think it and don't verbalise it.

I bet you do several of the ones I'm thinking of OP.

We don't care what you think OP we are too busy trying not to get wet getting our fix

I miss the need of having to take myself off outside to sit by myself and smoke a cigarette, away from everyone. Nobody talking at me. Just sitting and smoking.

I don’t miss cigarettes though!

@Straightjacketsandroses hard agree.

I gave up nearly 8 years ago but if if didn’t kill you, make you stink and give you wrinkles, I’d still be puffing away on a lovely lovely fag.

Glass of booze and a fag? ✔️
Coffee and a fag? ✔️
Food followed by a fag? ✔️
Gossip and a fag? ✔️
Shag followed by a fag? ✔️

Such a shame they are evil and stink.

Of course you're being unreasonable. Doesn't affect you, so why judge people? I'm sure there's probably plenty of things you do that people think are tragic

I've never smoked but I take the view that it's none of my business.

Yes, addiction is sad. I was a smoker for years. You become a slave to the substance; it becomes your number one priority. The addiction cuts a neurological pathway that overrides your normal survival and reward systems. You are a slave and have little to no free will. You hate yourself but you can't stop. Luckily it is possible to quit, but the person has to be ready.

Up to the individual.

Can’t say I have ever wanted to breathe deliberately polluted air and pay the government a massive amount of money for the privilege.

Smoking is way cooler than vaping.

As someone who has never smoked, what's so enjoyable about it?

That's what I wondered.

Same. I haven't smoked for over thirty years, and I only smoked ten or fifteen a day, but I still miss my first morning ciggie and coffee. I smoked Consulate, the menthol ones, or Berkeley Menthol if I couldn't get Consulate. As a teenager, I used to bond with my Nan over Consulate ciggies, cups of tea and Jimmy Cagney films on the telly. 😅

It looks cool and feels amazing

I love smoking and regularly miss it. If I had one wish I would hopefully/probably end up banishing hunger from the earth, but it would be a wrench to not make smoking not kill me instead.

I hate smoking, but this post kind of sold it to me. I’m in.

I agree with you OP. I don’t understand the hype around alcohol either.

God like several others above I also miss smoking. Quit for reasons stated

I'm with you OP. I've just lost my longest standing friend to lung cancer. He should have been here for decades more.

I miss him more than I can say. I'd happily strangle the board of B.A.T at the moment. 🙁

Same! God, I loved Berkeley menthols! I haven’t smoked in years, but if I make it to 75, I’m going to start smoking again on my birthday. Make those last few years really count.