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Buddy Blank
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:04 PM (GMT -6)
Yes? No?
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InTheShop
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:11 PM (GMT -6)
no, never have.
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81GyGuy
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:12 PM (GMT -6)
No. Tried a pack of Marlboros as a high school senior (1963) and decided pretty quickly smoking was not for me.
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JNF
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:16 PM (GMT -6)
Never cigarettes. An occasional cigar maybe one very four years.

Didn’t ever inhale.
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mattam
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:21 PM (GMT -6)
Smoke what? Never smoked cigarettes. Currently smoke nothing.

"Didn’t ever inhale." Hmmm. I've heard that before.
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Pratoman
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:39 PM (GMT -6)
Smoked 2-3 packs of Marlboro a day for about 10 years. 😱😱😱

Stopped cold turkey in my mid 30’s. One if the hardest things I’ve ever done. And one of the best. So far I’ve been lucky. {knock on wood, really really hard}
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mr bill
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Posted 11/25/2019 6:45 PM (GMT -6)
Friend asked me did I smoke after a frolic? Told them, didn't know, never looked.
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island time
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Posted 11/25/2019 7:40 PM (GMT -6)
2 pack a day smoker for 10 years...from 17 to 27 years old.
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F8
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Posted 11/25/2019 8:39 PM (GMT -6)
do you remember the 1970 Tony Curtis anti-smoking campaign commercial where he said "I don't smoke....cigarettes that is". I remember smoking acapulco gold and laughing with my buddies to that commercial. Jamie Lee Curtis recently talked about her past drug use and she said she smoked crack with Tony!

me, you name it I smoked, snorted and injected it. cigarettes were the last thing to go. I quit a 23-year nicotine habit more than 29 years ago.
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BillyBob@388
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Posted 11/25/2019 9:37 PM (GMT -6)
Finally quit for good in 1983.
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Steve n Dallas
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Posted 11/26/2019 3:15 AM (GMT -6)
I smoked menthol for 40 years.... December 10th will be my two year anniversary of quitting.

I used to buy two cartons at a time to save gas money.... LOL.... Every 9 to 10 days I'd spend $144.00 on those two cartons.
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halbert
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Posted 11/26/2019 5:48 AM (GMT -6)
Never. Tried cigarettes in my youth a few times. Tried pot once or twice.
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trailguy
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Posted 11/26/2019 6:30 AM (GMT -6)
25 years, quit 33 years ago (tobacco). Smoked weed until vapes came out in the late 1990's. These days it is home grown top-notch organic cannabis in a vaporizer (Pax 3 or Volcano), haven't smoked anything for more than 20 years.

I was 11 when I started cigarettes. Growing up in the USAF on nuclear strike bases exposed me to a lot of other nasties, as has 52 years of being an artist. I hope that seeing the error of my ways many years ago then changing my behaviors gives me measure of protection.
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alephnull
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Posted 11/26/2019 9:01 AM (GMT -6)
never cigs(tried twice, stopped after the first 1/2 puff), rarely pipe or cigar
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MG0351
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Posted 11/26/2019 2:53 PM (GMT -6)
Quit 31 years ago....And don't miss it at all.
Quitting makes you realize how stinky we were....
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Bohemond
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Posted 11/26/2019 8:25 PM (GMT -6)
I smoked 2 packs a day of Marlboros from late teens to early twenties. Would you believe 14 cents a pack in Vietnam plus little packs of 4 cigarettes in each c-ration meal. Back in the world, my last Navy boss was a Naval Academy quarterback - though his bad luck was being in the same class with Roger Staubach so he spent most of his time on the bench. One day he said to me "those things are going to kill you." I admitted he was right and quit then and there at age 23 or 24. Time passed. about 8 years later I was selling emergency medical radio systems and was sitting in a hotel bar with a consultant who was writing specifications for a statewide system I wanted to bid on. He was smoking and I bummed a couple of his cigarettes. I went to the cigarette machine in the lobby, bought a pack, and was back smoking 2 packs a day again the next day as if I'd never quit.

A year later I woke up around dawn one morning, coughing and reaching for a cigarette. I thought that was nuts. I flushed my remaining cigarettes down the toilet and quit cold turkey. I got through it by thinking every time I wanted a cigarette that I would have suffered for nothing for n hours, days, weeks, etc. if I started again. Eventually the tickle in the back of the throat went away, and eventually the smell of cigarette smoke became really annoying.

As for the other stuff I'd smoke occasionally - mostly when we were passing it around at dinner parties, etc. - though I preferred brownies. And if anyone here was in the northeast and remembers the Blizzard of '78, I can tell a story about my friends and landlords downstairs who made really great "snowstorm chicken" with a warning to go easy on the stuffing. But I quit that stuff too back in the 80s when I was working full time and doing a couple of evening grad courses. It just made meaningful concentration needlessly hard.
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Everton
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Posted 11/26/2019 11:29 PM (GMT -6)
No! I never have, both parents and a sister. My mom is 86 and still smokes.
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logoslidat
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Posted 11/27/2019 12:16 AM (GMT -6)
Yes/No....I chip...last time was...well last time...cant do one with out the other...not good not good but I'm such a tough old bird...years...like 50+ of hard hard core cardio of which I still partake have given me a tremendous heart/lung machine..yes...yes of course of course I roll with your eyes...but again there it is...for a guy closer to 77.than 76..even with all that I swear I kick butt in the ocean and at the gym...what ever the age...fricken fracken freak of nature....funny how the duo of "prove it " and " believe it or not " are the yin/yang..,yea/nay..to be or not to be and all that jazz...Oh jonny...I hardly knew ya...pops...pops...tares of tears...weighing naught but 21grams...tip the scale ye cheater of ought...thieves to the left...thieves to the right...sophie's choice ...lo..lo...turn...turn...be not bereft...its all a gif..

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Pratoman
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Posted 11/27/2019 8:01 AM (GMT -6)
Buddy, I’m just curious, what prompted you to start this thread and ask the question.
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Buddy Blank
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Posted 11/27/2019 8:10 AM (GMT -6)
I just wondered Prat. I was thinking about cancer.
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VinceInMT
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Posted 11/27/2019 11:16 AM (GMT -6)
I tried it a bit when I was in the army in the early 70s. They'd give us a smoke break and I learned that they guys who weren't smoking would be assigned some detail so I started smoking to avoid that. Never was really hooked and quit after I re-entered civilian life.
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logoslidat
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Posted 11/27/2019 11:35 AM (GMT -6)
Vince your smoking story reminds me when I was in boot camp doing KP..,I was assigned duties in the deep sink...this is where one washes the humongous pots and pans that require a very deep sink to wash in...the job was known to be the worse of all the duties...the were huge and just kept on coming...to the point that it was an unwritten rule that one would only be assigned it once...yikes I did such a good job on it...the head commissary guy requested me and got me the next day...Im still not sure I either knew or learned the lesson on that one
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TJ123
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Posted 11/27/2019 4:03 PM (GMT -6)
I don't smoke. But I sorta feel sorry for those who do. There is a war on smokers where I live. $8-$10 for a lousy pack of smokes. Entire towns are outlawing smoking. I'm the first to agree that cigarettes and cigars are not the healthiest of habits. I wouldn't recommend it to my worst enemy. But there are even worse habits that are legal and haven't been banned.

When my dad was in the Army if a man didn't smoke he wasn't a man. My, my. How times have changed. I'm just glad I'm as old as I am. And I'm glad I never got hooked on tobacco too. I guess I was just lucky.
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F8
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Posted 11/27/2019 6:16 PM (GMT -6)
it's possible I could slip on the ice and bust my skull open tomorrow in Yosemite during the first snowstorm of the year.
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clocknut
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Posted 11/28/2019 9:56 AM (GMT -6)
I smoked about a pack a day in the last year of high school, through college and grad school, and in the army. When I got out of the army and met my wife, she said the cigarettes must go, and I promised her that my then current pack would be my last. I nursed that pack for about two weeks, lighting up a cigarette, taking a few drags, and carefully extinguishing it to be completed later. But, when that pack was gone, I was through with smoking forever. That was 49 years ago.

Now, working part-time at a funeral home, I regularly see the results of smoking. Ironically, when we're doing a funeral for someone who died way too young from smoking related illness, I notice fewer mourners in the chapel, and many more outside at the smoking areas.

On a positive health note (and I have actually had a very healthy life), I was successfully cardioverted yesterday for atrial fibrillation and am back in sinus rhythm. I would like to think it will last, but who knows. This follows a 3-stent implantation in my right coronary artery on Oct. 21st. Two very successful procedures, and I'm very thankful.
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