View Poll Results: Do you smoke? (anonymous poll)
Yes
8
10.96%
No, I've quit
31
42.47%
No, never
34
46.58%
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Do You Smoke?
Jan 24th 2012, 2:53 am
#64
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Location: Melbourne
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Re: Do You Smoke?
Are you not at all interested in the credentials and background of people who have conducted the research? You only care that you've found a piece of research that supports your predisposed viewpoint? Anyone can do that for any subject.
Personally I find that odd.
Jan 24th 2012, 2:57 am
#65
Banned
Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 24
Re: Do You Smoke?
I didn't say anyone who doesn't find a link with passive smoking is paid by tobacco companies though.
Are you not at all interested in the credentials and background of people who have conducted the research? You only care that you've found a piece of research that supports your predisposed viewpoint? Anyone can do that for any subject.
Personally I find that odd.
Are you not at all interested in the credentials and background of people who have conducted the research? You only care that you've found a piece of research that supports your predisposed viewpoint? Anyone can do that for any subject.
Personally I find that odd.
Jan 24th 2012, 3:03 am
#66
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: Do You Smoke?
I didn't say anyone who doesn't find a link with passive smoking is paid by tobacco companies though.
Are you not at all interested in the credentials and background of people who have conducted the research? You only care that you've found a piece of research that supports your predisposed viewpoint? Anyone can do that for any subject.
Personally I find that odd.
Are you not at all interested in the credentials and background of people who have conducted the research? You only care that you've found a piece of research that supports your predisposed viewpoint? Anyone can do that for any subject.
Personally I find that odd.
If one of the riskiest thing you do, is walk past a smoker from time to time, then I'd be very surprised.
I don't even know why I'm bothering to discuss it. I don't even smoke.
Jan 24th 2012, 3:15 am
#68
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: East Seaxe
Posts: 72,542
Re: Do You Smoke?
Even if you completely discount the health issues not being in the pocket of Big Tobacco is a large motivator for not doing it.
That and being addicted to anything is bad. And the costs. For no benefit (it don't relax you, it doesn't keep you thin, it does nothing a smoker says it does).
I'm not going to go all righteous ex-smoker on yo ass, I understand why people do it and how they justify it.
I was that soldier. 20 years of it.
The "Would you encourage your kids/partner/mother to smoke?" question is one worth pondering. Let's be honest, nobody would and the vast majority of smokers would like to go back to before they started.
To anyone interested and hasn't heard me bang on about it before, I read Allan Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking". It don't preach it just removes the brainwashing.
If you don't want something you can't miss it. No willpower required.
Having said all that the government should make them illegal, stop collecting the tax or STFU with the nannying.
That and being addicted to anything is bad. And the costs. For no benefit (it don't relax you, it doesn't keep you thin, it does nothing a smoker says it does).
I'm not going to go all righteous ex-smoker on yo ass, I understand why people do it and how they justify it.
I was that soldier. 20 years of it.
The "Would you encourage your kids/partner/mother to smoke?" question is one worth pondering. Let's be honest, nobody would and the vast majority of smokers would like to go back to before they started.
To anyone interested and hasn't heard me bang on about it before, I read Allan Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Smoking". It don't preach it just removes the brainwashing.
If you don't want something you can't miss it. No willpower required.
Having said all that the government should make them illegal, stop collecting the tax or STFU with the nannying.
Ex-smoker friend of mine says that tobacco is a rubbish drug - all it does, while you are actually smoking, is stop you from wanting a cigarette.
Jan 24th 2012, 3:37 am
#69
Mostly Harmless
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
Posts: 15,109
Re: Do You Smoke?
The only thing you are doing is satisfying the craving.
Given what it costs you might as well do the same thing with something herbal, at least you might get something out of it.
A sleep, a smile, a taste for funky basslines, no taste in clothes ...
Jan 24th 2012, 3:43 am
#70
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: East Seaxe
Posts: 72,542
Re: Do You Smoke?
Yeh, it's amazingly pointless isn't it?
The only thing you are doing is satisfying the craving.
Given what it costs you might as well do the same thing with something herbal, at least you might get something out of it.
A sleep, a smile, a taste for funky basslines, no taste in clothes ...
The only thing you are doing is satisfying the craving.
Given what it costs you might as well do the same thing with something herbal, at least you might get something out of it.
A sleep, a smile, a taste for funky basslines, no taste in clothes ...
Jan 24th 2012, 3:48 am
#72
Mostly Harmless
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
Posts: 15,109
Re: Do You Smoke?
There are, of course, serious risks.
A liking for tie-died t-shirts and suspect hair to name but two.
Jan 24th 2012, 3:51 am
#73
Joined: Aug 2003
Location: East Seaxe
Posts: 72,542
Re: Do You Smoke?
The thing is to give the patient proper support so that he goes down the reggae/ska road and not that of the Grateful Dead.
Jan 24th 2012, 4:57 am
#74
Mostly Harmless
Joined: Jan 2010
Location: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
Posts: 15,109
Jan 24th 2012, 5:04 am
#75
destination Cairns
Joined: Oct 2005
Posts: 1,839
Re: Do You Smoke?
quit 1996 
