are you smoker or not?

[The Sage of Main Street]

Ttabacco Nazis

nice word!

Cig Heil!

At least some people realize this is control-freak scare-story propaganda and has nothing to do with health, except in an anti-junkfood sense. To be consistent, the gum-chewers ought to put a five-dollar tax on a bag of potato chips.

 

[Captain Caveman]

ireland was the first country that banned smoking in restaurants.

Probably why pubs and restaurants have died

 

[Zebra]

Probably why pubs and restaurants have died

no

 

[Captain Caveman]

no

Pubs died in the UK because of the smoking ban

Is the smoking ban to blame for the high rate of pub closures?

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Smoking ban estimated to have caused 3 in 4 pubs to close.

 

[Blaster]

I am now a non smoker. I did smoke cigarettes, cigars and weed during my college days but quit those habits once I started my career. I do have an occasional alcoholic drink but keep it to a minimum.

 

[Zebra]

Probably why pubs and restaurants have died

restaurants did not die

 

[Captain Caveman]

restaurants did not die

Quite a few did because councils closed some roads off, created wider pavements etc.. for outside seating space so you could eat and smoke. That was grand if your business was on the ground floor. Some moved, some adapted, and quite a few closed.

I'm a non-smoker, never smoked in my life, I've always been against smoking bans. More people die from diabetes than tobacco, where's the sugar ban. More die from car accidents, where's the ban on vehicles.

May have been different in the US, but in the UK, everyone can't just spread out at ground level.

 

[Zebra]

no restaurant ever closed because of the smoking ban

 

[Captain Caveman]

no restaurant ever closed because of the smoking ban

Covert posting doesn't work.

I personally knew quite a few closed in my area because the smoking ban reduced footfall to an unsustainable level.

 

[Woodznutz]

I quit 10 years ago... and there's nothing worse than a reformed smoker.... I can't stand the smell of cigs now.

I quit in 1970, but still like the smell of cigarette smoke. Never tempted to smoke again though. Hell, I miss the smell of burning leaves in the fall.

 

[two_iron]

Good pickup line....

"Ask me if I smoke after sex."

Unsuspecting hottie in the bar: "Ok, do you smoke after sex?"

"I don't know, I never looked."

 

[Zebra]

now 29 votes


26 nonsmokers

 

[boevans]

Smoked a pack day off and on for 30 years. Have not had a smoke in almost twenty years. If I had one, I would be hooked.

 

[para bellum]

BTW, I've smoked most everything out there and these are one of the best cigars ever made bar none. You might think you never tasted a cigar before.

https://www.cigarsinternational.com/p/padron-1964-anniversary-series-cigars/1474728/

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Smoker or not?

Some people call me the space cowboy

 

[braalian]

BTW, I've smoked most everything out there and these are one of the best cigars ever made bar none. You might think you never tasted a cigar before.

https://www.cigarsinternational.com/p/padron-1964-anniversary-series-cigars/1474728/

I’ve smoked a lot of cigars, and the CAO Brazilia is the best and most consistent by far in my experience

 

[braalian]

That's because all you ever knew were those crappy cigarettes. Floor sweepings of the cheapest Turkish tobacco sprayed with additives to give it a bit of flavor and to make it addictive wrapped in toilet paper.

In contrast, there are also pipes and cigars--- unlike cigarettes which you might smoke one every hour or every 15 minutes, pipes, you might only smoke 1-2 times a day and cigars maybe less than that--- further, you don't inhale them. So not only does your body get a rest, most pipe and cigar tobacco involves centuries of development taking months and years of complex cultivation and curing developing enormous flavor from the very highest of tobaccos.

Cigarettes are just a cheap, dirty habit; pipes and cigars are a luxury, a civilized, cultivated pleasure shared among the cultured hoi ligoi of society.

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I’ve got to try pipe smoking one of these days

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

I have never smoked in my life and never will.

 

[Woodznutz]

Good pickup line....

"Ask me if I smoke after sex."

Unsuspecting hottie in the bar: "Ok, do you smoke after sex?"

"I don't know, I never looked."

I don't (didn't) smoke, but I sure shredded those condoms.

 

[braalian]

I don't (didn't) smoke, but I sure shredded those condoms.

I don’t get it, you’re saying they broke or what