Good boy
Hold the gin though
Bad experience with wanting to smash up the world years ago.
Nearly my ruin let alone mothers

I packed in the fags over 3 years ago in favour of vaping. I appreciate there is no proof it is better/worse that cigs but with no tar or carbon monoxide, surely it can't be any worse (and far cheaper).

Your point about being more addicted is a valid concern. I vape quite liberally now although my nicotine intake is still quite low. Next step is to drop to 0%.

I will warn you it is addictive and very enjoyable, very easy to carry it with you and use all the time.

If you do move to vaping, be a considerate one like me. I don't use it when close to others as the clouds are pretty anti social. I regularly see c*nts vaping with people right behind them, being totally clouded in vapour.

Good luck

"We're the Holmesdale, We're the Holmesdale, We're the Holmesdale over here!!"

Yes I agree, it's a relief from the stress that builds through nicotine withdrawal, so people may well like smoking, but primarily due to how they feel when they're not smoking.

It's one of the more insidious drug addictions because there is a mundane 'who's it hurting' quality to it, until reality dawns. It's internal self harm. Of course there are other ways to get there, eating yourself to death, drinking yourself to death, but they all have ongoing signs and symptoms that things are going badly wrong. When the effects of smoking kick in it's often sudden and like a tonne of bricks. There's not much 'I like it' from that point on though.

Not nearly enough!!

So many artisan gins around these days, I was reading about an elephant dung based gin the other day.

Smoking does your health no favours even if it doesn't kill you, so I'm not sure of this idea that the majority of smokers breeze through inhaling smoke and poison unharmed like something out of a dream.

"the risk of developing lung cancer is about 23 times higher in male smokers compared to non-smokers; smoking is associated with increased risk of at least 15 types of cancer"

And that's cancer alone. I'm sure we all have family members with COPD and losing limbs due to messing up veins isn't even remotely rare.

"A study of more than 200,000 people, published this week in BMC medicine, found about 67 percent of smokers perished from smoking-related illness." - [Link]

'we have a shelf life' 'when your numbers up'.. None of these cliches mean anything.

It's simple to just say, 'I'm going to smoke because I want to and I'm addicted, and I'm willing to take any health implications on the chin and any misery or illness smoking brings my family due to me wiping out my own health is tough sh!t because smoking is my number one'.

That's the reality for addicts of anything. That's 'getting real'. All of this dragging healthy people dying young into it or imagining yourself potentially getting stabbed or run over as reason why you should light up and abuse your own health is just cobbled together justification for a cr@p health choice. Addict mentally in full force.

Edited by dollardays (15 Mar 2019 2.25am)