[POLL] - Do you Smoke?

[CtK]

smokers are nasty!!!

 

[steelels1]

No, and I support a constitutional amendment to ban smoking.
Seriously though, it's nasty and I can't even so much as stand the smell of it.

 

[Wynner3]

Never have, never will. I have lost too many family and friends to cigarettes. Lung cancer, throat cancer, breast cancer, cancer all over the chest with a tumor in the brain the size of a golf ball that Kaiser Permanente missed days before. Great people, all dead.

 

[Harvey]

I truly hate the tobacco companies. A few Christmases ago, I sat in a hospital room, watching one of my best friends pull his LAST painful, rattling breath due to smoking related diseases, and I've watched at least nine friends die in the last six years. :|

I think every tobacco exec for the last fifty years should be tried for crimes against humanity for the killer products they continue to market. I watched those lying assholes raise their hands before Congress and swear that tobacco was not addictive or carcinogenic.

A few years ago, California passed an initiatiative that is one of the strongest anti-smoking laws in the country. Despite the tobacco lobby spending a record amount for a private interest to defeat this initiative, it passed by a record margin of 80% - 20% margin. In the very next session of the state legislature, our elected representatives in the State Assembly passed a bill to overturn that initiative. Fortunately, the media stink that followed caused the State Senate to think better of the idea and kill it. I still have to wonder how much money it takes to get over half of a state legilative body to overturn a law passed by 80% of the voters.

Now, Philip Morris's saccherine anti-smoking commercials are equally lame. If they believed 10% of what they say, they would immediately stop selling their tobacco products.

To hide the association with their other products, they now call the parent company, Altria. From their site:

Marketing Excellence and Innovation

Philip Morris International?s brand portfolio includes seven of the top 20 international brands, including Marlboro, which has been the best-selling international cigarette brand since 1972, and L&M, which is now the No. 3 brand in the world over the last decade. Other brands include Philip Morris, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Lark and Parliament.

Can you say LYING, TO-FACED MOFOS, boys and girls? :|

If you don't smoke, your buying decisions about tobacco are irrelevant to them. However, you, and those with whom you share the info, below, can have an effect by boycotting tobacco-owned food products, depriving them of income from those sources. Here's a list from Philip Morris' Altria/Kraft Foods site:

Altoids mints
Athenos Cheeses
Baker's Chocolate and Coconut
Breakstone's Sour Cream, Cottage Cheese, etc.
Breyer's Ice Cream, Yogurt, etc.
Bull's-Eye barbecue and grilling sauces
California Pizza Kitchen pizza
Callard & Bowser Toffees
Calumet Baking Powder
Campbell Soups
Capri Sun
Churny Cheeses
Claussen Pickles
Comet Cups Icecream Cones
Cool Whip
Country Time (pseudo) Lemonade (They really should call this a kit, instead of a mix.)
Cracker Barrel cheeses
CremeSavers
Crystal Light
D-Zerta
Di Giorno Italian foods
Easy Cheese Process Cheese Spread
General Foods (all products)
Good Seasons Salad Dressing Mixes
Grey Poupon
Handi-Snacks
Harvest Moon cheeses
Hoffman's cheeses
Jack's Pizza
Jello
Jet-Puffed
Knudsen dairy products
Kool-Aid
Kool Stuf Toaster Pastries
Kraft Foods
La Vie De La Vosgienne candies
Life Savers
Light n' Lively cottage cheese
Louis Rich lunch meats
Lunchables
Maxwell House Coffee
Milk-Bone Dog Biscuits
Milka L'il Scoops
Miller Beer
Minute Rice
Mirácoli pasta
Nabisco products
Oscar Meyer
Oven Fry Coatings
Polly-O Cheeses
Post Cereals
Ragu Sauces, etc.
Sanka Coffee
Sather's Candies
Sauceworks
Sealtest dairy products
Seven Seas Salad Dressings
Shake 'N Bake
Starbucks coffees (Packaged products in stores)
Stove Top Stuffings, etc.
Taco Bell dinner kits, Salsa, etc.
Tang
Temp-tee cream cheese
Terry's candies
Toblerone and Tobler Candies
Tombstone Pizza (appropriate, don't ya think?)
Trolli Candies
Woody's Cold Pack Cheese
Yuban Coffee

Death to the tobacco murderers! :| :| :|

 

[StageLeft]

Never have.

 

[Blayze]

If you don't count 2nd hand smoke from my dad, then no I don't smoke.

 

[HiTek21]

Nope, never have and never will

 

[moshquerade]

never have and never will
my mother does and i hated it growing up.

 

[PatboyX]

i smoke a cigar maybe once or twice a month. but i dont really consider myself a smoker.

 

[cyclistca]

Only when I'm on fire.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: cyclistca
Only when I'm on fire.

i am surprised "only after sex" hasn't been posted yet.

 

[kyparrish]

nope...seeing your granddad die from lung cancer when you're 10 years old makes you not want to smoke

 

[murphy55d]

I've never even tried.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
I enjoy a good cigar with good alcohol, & crappy cigars if I've had enough alcohol.

I probably average 1 cigar every 2-3 months.

Other than that, I don't smoke.

Viper GTS

same here. I enjoy a good cigar with some good alcohol.

i enjoy sitting out on my deck in the evening relaxing and having a good cigar

 

[CtK]

Originally posted by: Harvey
I truly hate the tobacco companies. A few Christmases ago, I sat in a hospital room, watching one of my best friends pull his LAST painful, rattling breath due to smoking related diseases, and I've watched at least nine friends die in the last six years. :|

I think every tobacco exec for the last fifty years should be tried for crimes against humanity for the killer products they continue to market. I watched those lying assholes raise their hands before Congress and swear that tobacco was not addictive or carcinogenic.

A few years ago, California passed an initiatiative that is one of the strongest anti-smoking laws in the country. Despite the tobacco lobby spending a record amount for a private interest to defeat this initiative, it passed by a record margin of 80% - 20% margin. In the very next session of the state legislature, our elected representatives in the State Assembly passed a bill to overturn that initiative. Fortunately, the media stink that followed caused the State Senate to think better of the idea and kill it. I still have to wonder how much money it takes to get over half of a state legilative body to overturn a law passed by 80% of the voters.

Now, Philip Morris's saccherine anti-smoking commercials are equally lame. If they believed 10% of what they say, they would immediately stop selling their tobacco products.

To hide the association with their other products, they now call the parent company, Altria. From their site:

Marketing Excellence and Innovation

Philip Morris International?s brand portfolio includes seven of the top 20 international brands, including Marlboro, which has been the best-selling international cigarette brand since 1972, and L&M, which is now the No. 3 brand in the world over the last decade. Other brands include Philip Morris, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Lark and Parliament.

Can you say LYING, TO-FACED MOFOS, boys and girls? :|

If you don't smoke, your buying decisions about tobacco are irrelevant to them. However, you, and those with whom you share the info, below, can have an effect by boycotting tobacco-owned food products, depriving them of income from those sources. Here's a list from Philip Morris' Altria/Kraft Foods site:

Altoids mints
Athenos Cheeses
Baker's Chocolate and Coconut
Breakstone's Sour Cream, Cottage Cheese, etc.
Breyer's Ice Cream, Yogurt, etc.
Bull's-Eye barbecue and grilling sauces
California Pizza Kitchen pizza
Callard & Bowser Toffees
Calumet Baking Powder
Campbell Soups
Capri Sun
Churny Cheeses
Claussen Pickles
Comet Cups Icecream Cones
Cool Whip
Country Time (pseudo) Lemonade (They really should call this a kit, instead of a mix.)
Cracker Barrel cheeses
CremeSavers
Crystal Light
D-Zerta
Di Giorno Italian foods
Easy Cheese Process Cheese Spread
General Foods (all products)
Good Seasons Salad Dressing Mixes
Grey Poupon
Handi-Snacks
Harvest Moon cheeses
Hoffman's cheeses
Jack's Pizza
Jello
Jet-Puffed
Knudsen dairy products
Kool-Aid
Kool Stuf Toaster Pastries
Kraft Foods
La Vie De La Vosgienne candies
Life Savers
Light n' Lively cottage cheese
Louis Rich lunch meats
Lunchables
Maxwell House Coffee
Milk-Bone Dog Biscuits
Milka L'il Scoops
Miller Beer
Minute Rice
Mirácoli pasta
Nabisco products
Oscar Meyer
Oven Fry Coatings
Polly-O Cheeses
Post Cereals
Ragu Sauces, etc.
Sanka Coffee
Sather's Candies
Sauceworks
Sealtest dairy products
Seven Seas Salad Dressings
Shake 'N Bake
Starbucks coffees (Packaged products in stores)
Stove Top Stuffings, etc.
Taco Bell dinner kits, Salsa, etc.
Tang
Temp-tee cream cheese
Terry's candies
Toblerone and Tobler Candies
Tombstone Pizza (appropriate, don't ya think?)
Trolli Candies
Woody's Cold Pack Cheese
Yuban Coffee

Death to the tobacco murderers! :| :| :|

i guess ill have to tell all my family and friends to stop buying kraft stuff!!! thanks for the info

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
how about "casual smoker - only smoke 1 or 2 cigs at the bar on the weekend"

i don't call myself a smoker, i don't buy them, and i probably don't go through more than a pack a year.

Interesting.... they sell packs of cigs that hold 50-100 (52*1 or 2) in each pack?

 

[bigrash]

Never smoke and never will. although everyone around me smokes, so i'll probably die of second hand.

 

[Crazymofo]

I finally get to say that I'm happily a non-smoker!

 

[ajpa123]

I end up smoking about 5-10 ciggys a year and maybe 1 or 2 cigars. (only on special occasions or with freinds and I break down and just need to corrupt my lung tissue for some stupid reason) I never do more than one ciggy on any one night...