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.

I'm one of those annoying part time smokers. I've thankfully been able to take it or leave it for 20 odd years, which means I get to look cool at parties and drinking establishments but don't have to maintain the habit on a daily basis.

A cigarette and a cold pint of beer, alone, on a sunny afternoon in a beer garden. Utter heaven.

This is so on point.
I'm very lucky (imo) in that I can smoke irregularly without any ongoing impulsion to do it. Eg in March i went to Antibes (must be a theme) and bought two packets of fag's. Smoked most of one while there the the rest have been in my handbag since. Have the odd one when I'm on a terrace with a glass of wine, or in a busy pub and fancy a quiet ten minutes outside. Still have over half a packet left.

Oh, Lord, I started smoking just down the road a bit closer to Cagnes, when I was a teenage au pairs love with the children’s dad. Maybe it’s in the air!

That’s adorable.

I can have the odd one and not go back to it. I had a few in Feb and a couple at Easter. No immediate plans for any more, but child free at a festival in August will be a smoke-a-thon

Don't feel sorry for us this is where the most fun happens in the smoking area why your inside watching everyone's bags

I think you should mind your own fucking business and leave your friend alone to enjoy her fags in peace.
God I was so skinny when I smoked 😭

Where else are we to go?

It's a very dated thing to do now.

Smoking is a disgusting dirty habit.
It makes you stink and smell like an ashtray all the pufumes and spays dont cover it up either.
No matter how much you smoke 1 ada or 50 day its disgusting and pricy.

However here i am a smoker.
Wishing i never started but trying to quit is hard.
I was told you have to want to do it not do for others but you want to quit.
Im still waiting for my brain to tell me i really want to quit.

Oh yes, dancing all night on ciggies, diet coke and rush, no wonder I was slim.

😂a new hobby!!

+1

I rarely see people smoking nowadays that I will do a double take if I do see someone puffing away.

I never have smoked but I always thought it looked cool especially in the movies. Huddled together in the rain may not look so good though.

What I don’t get are young adults that want to smoke. Why? As at my last job, if anyone looked under 25, we asked for ID (Think 25) looked at their DOB on ID and they turned 19 a couple of weeks prior.

Got regular young adults who always had ID to hand.

I’m guessing that grew up in a household/family where everyone smoked and they thought smoking is the norm.

Young adults vape instead.

Ah, I fucking love smoking. I don’t do it now because death but I swear if it wasn’t lethal I’d barely ever put one out.

Just get some headphones and listen to some of your favourite music to be outside by yourself.

I hate it.
It killed both of my parents, and I judge anyone who is stupid enough to smoke.

So flame me.

Which looks extremely uncool. Shame.

This is exactly how I feel

I’ve barely had more than a couple of packets in my entire life, but occasionally after a long lunch a fag and a glass of champagne are just the thing.

The young adults smoke cigs and rolling tobacco.

”Wot’s your cheapest rolly baccy?” £22.50 for 30g!

I find condescending patronising people rather sad

Everytime I go to the Leicester Royal Infirmary, despite being a smoke free zone. Always see a patient wearing a hospital gown with something like a drip on drip stand or catheter in holder, looking like death, clutching feebly to a cig.

Most pathetic sight.