Do you smoke?

[Ivaden]

Cigarettes: Don't care for the smell, never have. Regardless of that, I bought a pack for myself a while ago, tried two, hated it, gave the rest to my mom.

Cigars: When I'm drunk or planning to be.

Weed: When I'm around it, I'll smoke, but I'm hardly around it.

Shisha (hookah): When I'm not too lazy to prepare it, or when my friend actually has money and we go out to the hookah bar. Smoke it maybe once every three months now, but when I bought my own last year I was probably smoking it like three times a day which is terrible.

[Calais~]

Is your car also powered by your own sense of self worth? 8)

joke

God, I wish. Nearly $40 to fill my car up today Q_Q

[Kuya]

I can't believe i'm saying this, but cue the South Park episode about smocking. Man South Park is like the lazy man's answer for everything.

[Blarg]

I can't believe i'm saying this, but cue the South Park episode about smocking. Man South Park is like the lazy man's answer for everything.

It's true, half the 'debate' threads I read I immediately think of the south park episode that was about it.

[Keno]

I smoke alot of pot, basically every night before I go to bed. But at the same time, I hate 'stoners'. It's weird. If i'm smoking with someone and they start 1 of the following: A) some retarded philosophical talk B) the whole I AM SO HIGH RIGHT NOW GUYS talk C) the always annoying "what is going on, guys i dont know whats going on right now" talk, I usually get up and walk away and try to avoid smoking with them again. It's going to sound stupid, but I think all the people that only smoke on occasion ruin it for everyone else. Because no matter what, you will fall into a typical negative stereotype if you're not used to it. Now before anyone starts bashing me for how much I smoke... I go to college, my GPA is high (pun), I have a regular job (and I dont smoke and go to work, another thing that annoys me), and my brain isn't failing.

If you have never tried it, don't say anything about it, period, you look like a dumbass. If you have only tried it once, same applies.

QFT.

[Howard Roark]

Having never smoked a cigarette before I'm kinda clueless about something. If you have never smoked before and aren't addicted yet what good feelings come from smoking one. From listening to others talking about smoking all the good feelings of smoking a cigarette have been to get rid of the feeling that you need one. If someone was stressed and they smoked their first ever cigarette (and happened to not hate it) would it work for the stress?

imagine when you were stressed, you took five minutes in the middle of your work day, went outside and inhaled deeply and slowly, wouldnt that feel nice? if this became a routine you'd probably look forward to it, maybe start to feel like you need 'a breather' now and then

it's this very act of slowed breathing that smokers get confused and think it's the cigarette that calms them

nicotine, while addictive, is not actually relaxing

that being said, non smokers should be entitled to the numerous 'smoke breaks' that smokers are provided, and smokers, next time you feel you neeed a cig, go relax outside and breathe fresh air for 5 minutes (or 7 for king size)

[Weltall]

Never have even tried one, thank god. Disgusting.

[Deejay]

I smoke alot of pot, basically every night before I go to bed. But at the same time, I hate 'stoners'. It's weird. If i'm smoking with someone and they start 1 of the following: A) some retarded philosophical talk B) the whole I AM SO HIGH RIGHT NOW GUYS talk C) the always annoying "what is going on, guys i dont know whats going on right now" talk, I usually get up and walk away and try to avoid smoking with them again. It's going to sound stupid, but I think all the people that only smoke on occasion ruin it for everyone else. Because no matter what, you will fall into a typical negative stereotype if you're not used to it. Now before anyone starts bashing me for how much I smoke... I go to college, my GPA is high (pun), I have a regular job (and I dont smoke and go to work, another thing that annoys me), and my brain isn't failing.

If you have never tried it, don't say anything about it, period, you look like a dumbass. If you have only tried it once, same applies.

I agree to an extent. I don't like it when people talk about weed like fags. The only negative thing I have to say about pot though is that it really fucks up your appetite (at least for me). When I was smoking habitually, I got to the point where I could only eat a decent amount of food when I had the munchies. During the day I'd eat a sandwich for lunch and feel like I couldn't eat anything forever. But when I got high at night with friends I could down 2 pizza pies easily.

But yeah, my dad grew up smoking weed a lot and he graduated from Columbia, is the VP of IDC and owns a lot of shit. You can smoke weed and be successful, but there are a lot more people who smoke and don't do shit/underachieve.

[pohibaba]

Cigarettes: Never tried one; never will.

Cigars: I love them. I always have some in my humidor, but I only smoke them as a social thing and almost always with a beer.

Weed: I used to smoke it, but about a year ago I had a really bad experience with it. I started having really bad hallucinations and my heart was beating so fast that I honestly felt like I was about to die. I had smoked pretty often before that, and I know that smoking weed isn't supposed to be anything like that and so it freaked me out. I've had no desire to smoke any since then and probably won't ever again.

[Rigor]

Pot is highly overrated and no one thinks your such a non-conformist, totally original, and creative badass because you skipped english class to go get high. No one cares and no one wants to hear your stories that always start with "Dude, I was so high yesterday!"

Have fun wasting your money.

I don't give a fuck what you or anyone thinks. I smoke because it gets you high. Being high makes the boring parts of life so much more enjoyable. Not to mention, I just really like weed.

[Keno]

Cigarettes: Never tried one; never will.

Cigars: I love them. I always have some in my humidor, but I only smoke them as a social thing and almost always with a beer.

Weed: I used to smoke it, but about a year ago I had a really bad experience with it. I started having really bad hallucinations and my heart was beating so fast that I honestly felt like I was about to die. I had smoked pretty often before that, and I know that smoking weed isn't supposed to be anything like that and so it freaked me out. I've had no desire to smoke any since then and probably won't ever again.

As stated earlier, these are some of the problems associated with "recreational" marijuana usage; habitual users don't suffer those negative side effects.

And amen @ rigor.

[FireCrystal]

I am smoking, playing video games, banging hot chicks, and typing this reply right now.

[Khamsin]

Where's the option for "No, but I might consider starting someday."?

Not that I plan to, but out of fairness for the poll.

[Charla]

I am smoking, playing video games, banging hot chicks, and typing this reply right now.

POIDH

[Amastacia]

Never smoked a cigarette, but I did bum the occasional clove off friends in college if I just needed 10 minutes of brain idle time. Don't really inhale them, so I dunno if they really count.

Puffed on a couple cigars, kind of indifferent there.

Used to smoke weed in college. Didn't, and still don't, really like the taste of booze. I'll drink it but it's not my preferred way of altering my state of consciousness. Don't have any connects where I am now, and not really much time to smoke, so even if I started again (which I wouldn't mind), I wouldn't be doing it often. I feel more in control high than drunk, and I don't end up hung over the next day.

Oddly, I voted "never smoked" because I think cigs/tobacco when I think "smoke". I've never smoked a cig, never will. Only tobacco products I've ever touched (and even then, only a few times) were not inhaled. Wasn't even thinking weed when I saw the poll, but I'd probably go back and change my vote if I could. That said, you don't really have to "quit" weed since it's not physically addictive, so the options aren't exactly appropriate.

[Lordwafik]

Everyone of my uncles smoke, my aunts smoke, my uncle and aunt double as my boss and they smoke at work, they smoke when they come over my house, my mother and father smoke, my grandmother smokes.

Thank god that it stopped at that generation. None of my cousins or sisters smoke, we all think it's the most disgusting thing.

[Awoir]

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[Khamsin]

Everyone of my uncles smoke, my aunts smoke, my uncle and aunt double as my boss and they smoke at work, they smoke when they come over my house, my mother and father smoke, my grandmother smokes.

Thank god that it stopped at that generation. None of my cousins or sisters smoke, we all think it's the most disgusting thing.

It's kind of funny, because what exactly made smoking less prevalent among this generation? We know the media had nothing to do with it because all the anti-smoking ads are plain ridiculous... I'd smoke just out of spite for them. We know peer pressure had nothing to do with it, since most cases of peer pressure would involve coaxing someone to smoke with relatively little pressure not to smoke. We know parental influence has nothing to do with it, since like wafik's family, a lot mine smoked, too, but I don't. The same can be said for many families. So one has to wonder what the driving influence really is. Perhaps just better education, and people are making more informed decisions for themselves, and many coincidentally come up with the notion to not smoke?

Smoking is by no means uncommon, of course, but certainly less glamorized than it was in the past couple generations. In another couple generations, the tobacco companies will probably have moved on to the fast food industry.

[Reapz]

Tried one, didn't like and never will like.

[Obev]

I am smoking, playing video games, banging hot chicks, and typing this reply right now.

In your convertible, right?

Smoked for a while, quit about 4 years ago. I'll occasionally bum a cigarette nowadays to keep smoking friends company when they're banished to the freezing cold outside of pubs and clubs.