smoking became a lot less fun when it became so stigmatized that you have to go hide in a corner to do it. I could never get past the guilt of secondhand smoke either, so that’s mostly why I quit, or tried to smoke in areas where no human being could possibly come near, so it was quite exhausting. And even then, people are still kind of pissy about it - which to be clear, I understand - but I used to go WAY out of my way to make sure I wasn’t smoking around anyone and people would still find problems with it.
TobaccoFreeCA is an evil organization IMO. Their war on vaping will kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, and they run really racist ads targeting black people.
This is not true BTW. Chemical-free flavored vapes are very popular. Obviously nowhere close to the drug-based kinds, but I’m not really surprised at that and don’t expect it to change.
Dude are you fucking kidding me? It became way more fun. It became rebellious like it hadn’t been since school. This is maybe a cultural thing, but seeing lifelong non-smokers shivering out in the smoking area because that’s where all the fun was made for a much better time than just smoking inside the pub. Loads and loads of high-traffic pubs in Dublin have these big heated, marquee-covered smoking areas that are where you want to be if you’re out for pints precisely because of this.
I dunno, I hate that I could be negatively affecting other people’s health. And in california it has been so heavily stigmatized by anti tobacco organizations that you feel real shame when you do it, and people are total complete assholes to you if they even get a whiff of cigarette smoke.
That’s just not a thing over here, have to say. Don’t believe I’d entertain it much if I encountered it. Might fuck around and blow smoke in a mook’s face, even. Don’t like it? Walk away, lol.
I live in a state where they run ads like, some guy’s smoking in an apartment and the smoke crawls through the air ducts, into a baby’s crib, and kills the baby or some shit.
when I was younger and more of an asshole, I was smoking in a very secluded area and a 12 year old girl rolled up on her bike and started coughing loudly at me and called me some name I don’t remember. I gave her the finger.
You’re saying nicotine addiction and the drug’s mild stimulant properties are the same thing. They may be linked, but they are separate. You’re placing all the popularity of cigarettes solely on their addictive qualities because that’s the story that gets pushed. And it’s a good story to have. It’s a nice little white lie that helps discourage smoking, just like we kind of refrain from mentioning how incredibly awesome opiates make people feel. But it leaves out an important part for many people.
I guess jbro is one example of somebody who was addicted but got no pleasure. suzzer otoh is somebody who derived ocassional pleasure but never got addicted. As for me, if I hadn’t been addicted to nicotine I certainly would have smoked less, but I would still have smoked because there was pleasure there for me, as a ritual part of my day, as a social activity, and because nicotine settles my mind in a way nothing else does.
Yeah I’m always struck being around people in the UK/Ireland how much more oblivious they are to smoke getting in other people’s faces. I’m not saying that as a criticism necessarily, it’s just an observation of cultural difference.
That’s exactly how I’d want you to treat it. Exactly how it would be intended. Bearing in mind that in my country at least, we’re either in a designated smoking area or on a public street. The former is never going to happen, the latter? A) Fuck off, B) Go tap on some car windows and ask them to please turn off the engine and C) Fuck right the fuck off.
There’s basic consideration - you stand down-wind of people, if you can and it’s a factor, you direct your exhalations away from them generally and in particular away from their faces,though ultimately there’s only so much you can do. There’s even a whole thing where you try to hide the very fact of your smoking from children.
I think I got pleasure from the ritualistic aspect of sparking up, along with the injection of nicotine. But I’m assuming the pleasure from the inhalation of nicotine is about the addiction, and wouldn’t be pleasurable unless one were addicted. I guess it’s all tied together.
When I was like 10 my dad told me that if I didn’t have a cigarette by the time I was 18 he’d give me $100, scouts honor of course.
I succumbed to peer pressure probably around 14-15 and thankfully, fucking hated it. Since then I’ve had had like 5 or 6 cigarettes since while drunk outside bars, but god damn is smoking nasty. Was honest with my dad too and as a result I will always have $100 less than I could’ve at any given point in my life.
My gran started smoking after my aunt, her last child was born and said that’s it I’m done, true story.
My mate didn’t smoke, but when he lit 1 up we knew he was going to hit someone, and used the cigarette for the 1st strike after asking the guy for a fag then a light… Not seen him in years though.
I smoke and never drink it’s my guilty pleasure
Now that my younger cousins are in there 20’s they tend to follow me out when I’m going for a smoke alough none of them smoke, after years of them hiding my packets. 1 Xmas it was the whole night, revenge will be sweet.
Yeah blowing smoke in someone’s face is asking for it, if appoligies don’t come straight away it could get bad…
I agreed with the smoking ban too, the places here were really bad, especially in the Poker rooms, lol.
it’s my guilty pleasure 
1 Xmas it was the whole night, revenge will be sweet. 