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Pawly  Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0 
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Smokers that is! Stand up and be counted. (if you can without having a coughing fit) I smoke and pay ridiculously high taxes to do so. I have no guilt. If you smoke then say so and stop hiding in the dark alleys!  DONATE TO SETI 
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 Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0 
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I get my fixes comparitively cheap... Account frozen... ID: 542741 · |
mikey  Send message Joined: 17 Dec 99 Posts: 4215 Credit: 3,474,603 RAC: 0
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Do Cigars count? If so I have one about once a month or so. When we play cards we always take a smoke/bathroom break about half way thru. 
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Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0
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Do Cigars count? If so I have one about once a month or so. When we play cards we always take a smoke/bathroom break about half way thru. All inhaled smoldering plant matter counts. DONATE TO SETI
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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0
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mikey Send message Joined: 17 Dec 99 Posts: 4215 Credit: 3,474,603 RAC: 0
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Do Cigars count? If so I have one about once a month or so. When we play cards we always take a smoke/bathroom break about half way thru. Hey I can go along with that!
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thorin belvrog  Send message Joined: 29 Sep 06 Posts: 6418 Credit: 8,893 RAC: 0 
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standing up to get counted: I smoke between 15 and 20 ciggies daily and pay my taxes for them. Did you know that (okay, in Germany - but it won't be otherwise in US or Canada or anywhere else) the production of one cigarette including wages costs about half a cent (it has been less than one pfennig when it was DM-times)? A 17piece pack of cigarettes are mostly sold here for €3,40 (including 19% vat), giving the retailer just 10 cent as a promotion Given the fact that the production costs are half a cent, it makes 8 cent to produce this pack, and €3,32 for taxes and a minor win. That's a conspiracy! Account frozen... ID: 542763 · |
Fuzzy Hollynoodles  Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
I smoke cigarettes and I enjoy it! I am what is called a party smoker, meaning that I can easily go several days or weeks without smoking, e.g. I don't bother to go the 24/7 gas station to buy them when I run out. But when I'm with somebody who smoke, I smoke too, so I usually buy a packet of cigarettes depending of what I'll be doing and whom I'll be with. E.g. when I visit my brother or we go out for lunch together, or I go to his summer house, I buy a 10 piece package, and if I'm going to a party in the evening, usually starting with a good dinner, I buy a 20 piece package. And when I know I'll be out the whole night to a party, I buy 2 packets with 20 in each, as I know they'll be smoked before morning... And sometimes when I plan a nice dinner here at home, or at certain occasions I buy a package and then I smoke until the packet is empty. I can easily smoke 10 - 15 cigarettes during the night, specially if I'm working on my computer! But again, I don't smoke at work, first, I'll have to go outside and second, I don't bother, as I can easily wait till I get home. In periods where I smoke a lot, I smoke about 70 - 80 cigarettes per week. And then I usually take a break not smoking for days... "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me 
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Knightmare  Send message Joined: 16 Aug 04 Posts: 7472 Credit: 94,252 RAC: 0
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I have smoked one pack ( 20 cigs ) a day for 25 years. I started when I was 13, quit for a year or so when I was around 18, then stopped caring about myself and started again. I have tried to quit a couple of times, but I have pretty much given up.... I now roll my own. It works out to about a dollar a pack. ID: 542773 · |
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Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0
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Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0
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Being Easter, my sister gave me some candy! Me being me, I recieved "Popeye Candy Cigarettes"......... only they aren't cigagettes anymore! :^(  DONATE TO SETI
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Typing while enjoying one of my FAVOURITE smokes of the day, after a meal! Oh yes, that one! And the one to the morning coffee and the one to the get home from work drink, whether it's tea, water, or juice, and the having a break while typing one, and... "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
Typing while enjoying one of my FAVOURITE smokes of the day, after a meal! Funny, that is not the one for me. In fact I don't need that one. I do enjoy that I can have days without smoking. I haven't smoked since the night between Thursday and Friday. And I won't be smoking before Tuesday - Wednesday at the earliest, maybe even first next weekend. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0
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I envy people like you Fuzzy. My father (when he was smoking) was the same way. And when he decided to quit it was "Cold Turkey" with no problems! It has such a hold on me. Pack a day since 14 years old. DONATE TO SETI
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Sixpack  Send message Joined: 12 Sep 99 Posts: 38 Credit: 182,096 RAC: 0
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It's been almost a year now since I smoked a cig. I got the laser therapy/ hypnosis and it seems to have done the trick. Though I admit like Mikey I spark up a nice Cuban (Cohiba Esplendito or a Nice Monte Carlo #4) for poker night ever month or so.  
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
I envy people like you Fuzzy. My father (when he was smoking) was the same way. And when he decided to quit it was "Cold Turkey" with no problems! It has such a hold on me. Pack a day since 14 years old. I actually quit back in 1991, where I in January, after having spent too much money for the Christmas, had very little money left. So it was a question about buying food or cigarettes, and I chose to buy food. And I started to jog at that time, so when I a month later should attend a course and bought a packet of cigarettes for that, I could feel it the first time I was out jogging after having smoked that whole package. And I thought that the jogging results were too "expensive" to me to waste with smoking. So I was non-smoker until January 13'th 1996, the last day my father lived. The worst part of quitting were the social gatherings where I used to smoke, so I bought a plastic cigarette, I stopped out with cotton so it had the very same draught as my favorite brand in ciggies, and I inhaled and all with it. That helped me through a longer time and then I quited that one also. The worst part about being a non-smoker is all the breaks you don't get when you don't want to go out to get a smoke. In my work I saw all the smokers take many longer breaks where I didn't have any excuse to take one. Which they often took advantage of! My friend is a mormon and when I visit her, I don't smoke out of courtesy, and I use the plastic ciggie a lot when I'm with her. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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Darth Dogbytes™ Send message Joined: 30 Jul 03 Posts: 7512 Credit: 2,021,148 RAC: 0
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Misfit  Send message Joined: 21 Jun 01 Posts: 21804 Credit: 2,815,091 RAC: 0
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::sniff:: It's stinky in here. me@rescam.org ID: 542929 · |
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Pawly Send message Joined: 13 Jan 07 Posts: 2694 Credit: 1,049,945 RAC: 0
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It's been almost a year now since I smoked a cig. I got the laser therapy/ hypnosis and it seems to have done the trick. Though I admit like Mikey I spark up a nice Cuban (Cohiba Esplendito or a Nice Monte Carlo #4) for poker night ever month or so. Nice to see ya Sixpack! I'd like to hear more about the laser therapy if you don't mind. I've heard of it but never knew anyone who tried. And Misfit's right it stinks in here! I could open the window or we could go sit outside in the yard.  DONATE TO SETI
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 9659 Credit: 251,998 RAC: 0 |
It's been almost a year now since I smoked a cig. I got the laser therapy/ hypnosis and it seems to have done the trick. Though I admit like Mikey I spark up a nice Cuban (Cohiba Esplendito or a Nice Monte Carlo #4) for poker night ever month or so. No, not outside in the yard, that's what they do to us all the time, make us go outside. No this thread is for the smokers here and we can smoke in here, they can go outside if they can't handle the smoke. "I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me
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