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12 Oct 2012, 11:25 pm
TalusJumper wrote:
equestriatola wrote:
This may be a touchy subject for any of us Aspies or NT people, but do you smoke?
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I abhor it. I got my dad to quit 2004........ I just knew even as a kid how the cigarette smoke was affecting me. Best thing I did.
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I abhor it. I got my dad to quit 2004........ I just knew even as a kid how the cigarette smoke was affecting me. Best thing I did.
I agree. Unlike you though, my years of trying to get my dad to quit ( along with the rest of our family) did not work. He refused to give it up and died early from lung cancer.
It took me 10 years to get mine to quit........ I am sorry for what yours went through.
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13 Oct 2012, 2:38 am
revolutionrocknroll wrote:
At my school a lot of people smoke various substances, including but not limited to cigarettes. I think they think it makes them cool but I don't see how killing yourself is cool? But let me tell you, there's nothing worse than grabbing a bite to eat between classes and then running through a cloud of cigarette smoke and losing the delicious taste and smell of your lunch, only to be replaced by the disgusting, choking stench of burning chemicals.
I think it's part of the reason I hesitate to make friends here, and especially date people, because there's always that very high chance that they're smokers.
But being straight edge is only one of the many ways I don't fit in with everyone else at college.
Downtown's like that too. And there's also a ton of creepy homeless people that sometimes hit on me and sometimes beg for drug money (and they admit it's for drugs) even though I completely ignore them and don't make eye contact. I guess the hobos are relevant because a lot of them are the ones smoking. Hobos, Canadians, and college students. There are sometimes discussions to ban smoking on campus, downtown, on certain streets, etc but nothing ever comes of it.
It's a pity, because otherwise, this is a very beautiful, healthy city.
I think it's part of the reason I hesitate to make friends here, and especially date people, because there's always that very high chance that they're smokers.
But being straight edge is only one of the many ways I don't fit in with everyone else at college.
Downtown's like that too. And there's also a ton of creepy homeless people that sometimes hit on me and sometimes beg for drug money (and they admit it's for drugs) even though I completely ignore them and don't make eye contact. I guess the hobos are relevant because a lot of them are the ones smoking. Hobos, Canadians, and college students. There are sometimes discussions to ban smoking on campus, downtown, on certain streets, etc but nothing ever comes of it.
It's a pity, because otherwise, this is a very beautiful, healthy city.
we are all killing ourselves all the time, only the rate at which we do changes.
more people die every year than have directly from all the nuclear accidents through history from smog alone, in mexico and other places the air is literally worse than the ciggarette smoke.
that said it isnt about killing yourself and it isnt neccesarily about being cool, for many people it is enjoyable, many accept an addiction as a consequence of that enjoyment.
personally i hate the smell and taste of cigarette smoke, i smoke cannabis which i mix with roasted low tar tobacco, allmost tasteless.
as for the people here that think actually banning it is even an option, shame you havent considered all the s**t people do at their own and others expense that have so many more consequences yet remain perfectly legal, talking on a phone while driving, even when using hands free equate to being over the limit.
people burn wood in stoves without proper gas burning or filtering options, in some neighbourhoods where it's common one can barely breath.
these are two of thousands of examples, compared to smokers, who might have special consideration in small pubs but other than are usually willing to go outside and enjoy their ciggarettes.
13 Oct 2012, 4:50 am
13 Oct 2012, 6:37 am
I used to smoke, but not anymore.
So what do I answer? 
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13 Oct 2012, 3:12 pm
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I'm a proud smoker. Can anyone name a product or food that has been more studied than smoking ? My point is I strongly suspect there are far more dangerous things than smoking in our modern messy society.
Yes like the opiates doctors prescribe people, I be those are very healthy
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equestriatola
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13 Oct 2012, 10:05 pm
I could NEVER smoke; it's too pricey, addictive, unhealthful, and why did we even find it appealing in the 1950s?
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