WTF is the appeal of smoking

toekramp · Mar 23, 2005

I just got back from the bar and i stink of cigeratte smoke. I'm not bitching about the fact people are smoking there, cause it's a bar and that's what people have a tendancy to do. I just can't believe there are that many people doing it. It's stinks, it kills you, it's not like you're getting high off of it. I swear I'm not complaining about the fact that people do smoke, I just don't understand why...smokers care to respond?

imported_Mike · Mar 23, 2005

Dunno if its so much of an appeal but more of the addiction factor...

toekramp · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: CheapArse
Dunno if its so much of an appeal but more of the addiction factor...

something has to get them going

NFS4 · Mar 23, 2005

I dunno. I find it disgusting. Nothing worse than walking through a cloud of smoke or having the smell attach to your clothes...YUCK!

Smaug · Mar 23, 2005

All the cool people are doing it?

0010010110 · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: CheapArse
Dunno if its so much of an appeal but more of the addiction factor...

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something has to get them going

curiosity?

0010010110 · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Smaug
All the cool people are doing it?

That too.

BigB10293 · Mar 23, 2005

Smoking and drinking go hand in hand.

YOyoYOhowsDAjello · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: BigB10293
Smoking and drinking go hand in hand.

I do neither :Q

(I'm 21 at UW-Madison, so this seems hard to believe by many people I've met)

dolph · Mar 23, 2005

it feels good and is fun.

sharkeeper · Mar 23, 2005

I have an invention that will make this a thing of the past.

YOyoYOhowsDAjello · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
I have an invention that will make this a thing of the past.

Is it a dream recorder?

rh71 · Mar 23, 2005

I find drinking to be bad.

Aftermath · Mar 23, 2005

I don't get it either. It's gross, expensive, and unhealthy up to the scenario of causing death. I think it takes an incredibly stupid person to start smoking for any reason today. All of the cons of smoking are very well known and drilled into our heads from day one.

sharkeeper · Mar 23, 2005

Um no.

Conky · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Aftermath
I don't get it either. It's gross, expensive, and unhealthy up to the scenario of causing death. I think it takes an incredibly stupid person to start smoking for any reason today. All of the cons of smoking are very well known and drilled into our heads from day one.

What can you say... people are stupid.

I don't know how the idea of inhaling burned anything was ever considered a good idea.

BigB10293 · Mar 23, 2005

Smoking in moderation is not going to kill you. Every now and then with a good drink it is quite enjoyable.

cirthix · Mar 23, 2005

ugh, i hate that smell!

Shawn · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Smaug
All the cool people are doing it?

Basically. That's why most people start..... then they get addicted.

IGBT · Mar 23, 2005

Text
Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity..

Two of the 700 additives in cigarettes are sclareol, which causes seizures in

laboratory rats, and ethylfuroate, which was investigated in the 1930's as a possible

chemical warfare agent.

American Medical News, May 2, 1994

A two pack a day smoker takes 400 puffs a day and inhales 1000 milligrams (one

gram) of tar. This is 150,000 puffs and a quart of thick brown gooey carcinogenic tar

inhaled into the lungs each year.

boyRacer · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: IGBT
Text
Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity..

Two of the 700 additives in cigarettes are sclareol, which causes seizures in

laboratory rats, and ethylfuroate, which was investigated in the 1930's as a possible

chemical warfare agent.

American Medical News, May 2, 1994

A two pack a day smoker takes 400 puffs a day and inhales 1000 milligrams (one

gram) of tar. This is 150,000 puffs and a quart of thick brown gooey carcinogenic tar

inhaled into the lungs each year.

Kadarin · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Smaug
All the cool people are doing it?

Click to expand...

Basically. That's why most people start..... then they get addicted.

Yep. They start out "to fit in", and get hooked.

ribbon13 · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: IGBT
Text
Tobacco ingredients, additives, and radioactivity..

Two of the 700 additives in cigarettes are sclareol, which causes seizures in

laboratory rats, and ethylfuroate, which was investigated in the 1930's as a possible

chemical warfare agent.

American Medical News, May 2, 1994

A two pack a day smoker takes 400 puffs a day and inhales 1000 milligrams (one

gram) of tar. This is 150,000 puffs and a quart of thick brown gooey carcinogenic tar

inhaled into the lungs each year.

You realize I could make a chocolate cake out of the ingredients too?

RelaxTheMind · Mar 23, 2005

I smoked in a club and a bar in NYC this past november... hehe...

only a few will get the signifigance of that.

EpsiIon · Mar 23, 2005

Originally posted by: rh71
I find drinking to be bad.

But not an obsession with a woman you can never have?

As for the ACTUAL thread topic, a smoker friend with which I have spoken told me that it's the head rush that got him started. He also dislikes the habit, but dislikes the withdrawals even more.

WTF is the appeal of smoking

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