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Smacks wrote:I gave up smoking by using an electronic cigarette. I didn't use it as a replacement. Just something I could turn to instead of a cigarette for when I really wanted to smoke.
I personally think nicotine patches etc... are useless. The idea that smokers continue to smoke because they are addicted to nicotine must be one of the biggest fallacies ever. Yes nicotine is addictive and makes you feel like a cigarette. But nicotine addiction is the easiest thing in the world to overcome... All you need to do is not smoke for about 3 days and you're over it. The difficult part to overcome is the social and emotional attachments that are associated with smoking.
This... is one of the biggest fallacies I've ever read.
That's not a fallacy.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
When it came to having a smoke I tended to not smoke in certain clothes, carried gum with me and deodorant just in case. Especially when I was about to go on duty, I would make sure that I didn't smell too much.
Bruins fan till the end.
Never assume anything, it will only make an ass of you and me.
Just so there's no misconception, I have no problem with smokers and don't mind being around them, but I hate it when smoke is blown towards my face (mind you most are courteous enough not to do this).
jamesmclaren123 thinks that Ma55ter_fett is AWSOME!!!
Son you can insult me, you can ambush me, you can even take away my weapons. But if you think im going to step one single pinky toe inside blue base with out my SHOTGUN... you must not know who you dealing with.
I said move...
and i said SHOTGUN...
yes I have your shotgun
no.. i mean SHOT...-GUN
what is this... you think im going to give you your shotgun back because you asked???
i said SHOTGUN.... SHOTGUN DAMMIT!!!
oh yeah shotgun... thats my que.
I'm a smoker. I love cigs. Having one right now in fact..
But I loathe people who try to tell me what I can and cannot do with my life. I had a brassy woman come up to my car not 5 minutes ago and ask me to put it out.....My car! In a public car park! Seems I was offending her delicate nostrils, never mind the fact that it's blowing a mini gale here right now...
I was polite(ish), and told her to go jump, but I had to admire the big brass balls on her anyway.
Might be hard to believe but i swear on my life I used Warhammer 40k and ebay to stop smoking. I quit the week I started 40k, I needed more loot for the hobby and wanted to quit , so i would spend my carton of smoke money every week at GW or Ebay before i got a chance to buy smokes ...being in chicago thats 60$ a week I got to spend. Now to be 100% honest i did smoke an e-cig for a week or two in the first month but they kinda blow imo and you might as well smoke the real deal. Also i did partake in some of my legal in cali friend too which helped and harmed at the same time. I could use it to fill a craving, but doing so would result in more cravings. I smoked for 18 years a pack and a half every day , and never thought i could quit ....but i f ing did it and I'm proud to no end with my self, you can do it too......think how big your armies would swell if you bought plasticrack instead.
Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
I've noticed that a LOT of 40k hobbyists tend to smoke. Why, I dunno. But I think I have a connection. Many military vets I know smoke. Many military vets play 40k. Ipso facto, may 40k hobbyists smoke.
I've had a bad history with other people smoking. My brother has asthma, which makes it hard to be around smokers. Many of my smoking relatives died from the cancer smoking gave them (mind, they were smoking pipes, which dont smell that bad, really). Said brother and myself have both had cigarettes extinguished on us as children. Not fun. I still have the circular scars.
Some smokers decide that since they smoke, they will infringe in non smoking areas, or think that they are tougher than non smokers BECAUSE they smoke. These piss me off. Fine, you look tough, but just try to catch me. I dare you. And if you collapse, I'm not stopping to help.
I refuse to smoke mostly because I want to be able to run and ski to my hearts content. When I grow old an senile... maybe. Also, I hate the smell of cigarette smoke.
I lived in europe for a while, where EVERYONE smokes, and it is culturally accepted. Therefore, I respect people's choices to smoke or not, and if and when to quit.
In america, our children go through health classes DRILLING into them anti smoking thoughts and fears. THe one thing the did teach me, however, is this:
If there were not smokers and thus a smokes industry, smoking would be fairly clean. However, the industry puts so many chemicals into each cig that, well, I will ask any smoker, politely, to blow their smoke the other way.
Wow, another long rant. I wish, sometimes, I didnt have so much to say.
YOU ALL! DS:90S++G++MB++I+Pw40k09#+D++A+/eWD-R++T(S)DM+
: ANGRY MARINES! RAGE INFINITE!
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: The Primal Host- Double as Angry Marines who went to far...
feeder wrote: Frazz's mind is like a wiener dog in a rabbit warren. Dark, twisting tunnels, and full of the certainty that just around the next bend will be the quarry he seeks.
Albatross wrote:...some times I don't even inhale, I just light it up and blow it on people. Because I'm bigger, stronger, and they can't stop me.
Rock. And. Roll.
I've never thought of doing this...until now.
...I'm beginning to contemplate rushing up to people I see in restaurants and diners now, BIG people..as they shove gobs of cake and pie into their maws and lecture them on the dangers of obiesity whilst lamenting the fact that I don't want there future triple bypass cost to be a burden on the health care system...
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
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Every Dakkanaught gets a 4+ Pinch of Salt save.
When you suffer a Falling Sky hit, roll a D6 - on a 4+ the hit is ignored as per the Pinch of Salt save. On a 1-3 panic insues - you automatically fail common sense tests for the next 2 weeks and get +7 to your negativity stat. -Praxiss
This is the now dead comedian Bill Hicks, and if you enjoy those bits I fully suggest looking this guy up as he was a master comedian and very very smart, funny guy.
Also curious, anybody smoke pipes? I started about a year ago and absolutely love them, favorite flavor is maple. I always get the strangest looks while smoking them though, like no one has ever seen a guy under 50 smoke a pipe.
Don't smoke, can't stand the god awful smell. If you want to light one up then I'm not going to guilt trip you, but man the smell is like adealing with a fart, only more poison and less stink.
I'm rather pleased that movies, restaraunts, bars and the like are starting to take more anti-smoking measures.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
Indeed, especially with his fear of doing comedy after surviving lung cancer, comon it's funny.
Though it was pancreatic cancer that killed him.
One thing I can agree with however as a smoker are the laws against smoking inside bars and restaurants. I understand that the second hand smoke stinks to non smokers and I understand there dissire to not want to have to deal with a bunch of built up lingering stinking smoke. Besides going out for a smoke and standing in cooler, open air is more refreshing an environment to have my smoke in in my opinion.
Im sorta choked about the air ports though, many of the larger ones no longer give smokers a place outside to smoke after passing security. I mean come on, how hard is it to put up a fence outside an un-used door, of which there is many?
Also in Vancouver there are laws against smoking within 6m (or approx. 20 ft.) of any doors. Now ok, I'll play by the spirit of the rule, I wont stand directly in front of a door being used while smoking, which I wouldn't have done before as I put it on par with standing in the middle of a door way as an annoyance. But there are cops actually going around with tape measures and watching areas where it is imposable to still stand on a side walk and not be withing 20 ft. of a door. Where are people supposed to stand? The road? Its down town Vancouver we got guys shooting up in plain sight and the cops are chasing smokers with tape measures?
Sorry, end rant.
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yournamehere wrote:Im sorta choked about the air ports though, many of the larger ones no longer give smokers a place outside to smoke after passing security. I mean come on, how hard is it to put up a fence outside an un-used door, of which there is many?
Those smoke rooms, good god. It's like someone set off a smoke grenade in their it's so thick. Also, the smoke smell is like...condensed. Even my mom who was in there puffing away said it was hell.
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
I'm a smoker, kind of wish I wasn't now but I am. I do however try and be polite about it. I haven't smoked inside a building since the U.K smoking ban a good few years ago.
KingCracker wrote:Is murdering people still illegal? Curse our backwards legal system!
you can go to jail for owning an airsoft gun and shooting it because some neighbors get nervous when an orange tipped rifle that looks plastic and then the police come in and everything gets strange when you start to describe the gun is fake and even test fire it to show it is competely legal. Yeah a 17 year old owning a M-16.....
From whom are unforgiven we bring the mercy of war.
That would be a valid argument if miniatures stunk and caused cancer, but they don't.
I'm sure if you melt them (the plastics) down and huff the smoke they will. A special, limited-edition, best-in-the-world, GW cancer. So don't burn your GW plastics and huff them.
Chromedog doesn't smoke (but has). Chromedog's Dad smoked. Chromedog's dad had lung cancer. Chromedog's dad was also an electroplater exposed to small amounts of hexavalent chromium and various and sundry volatiles and noxious chemical fumes for nigh on 40 years.
Doctors could NOT confirm (under those conditions) that smoking was to blame for the cancer. It probably DID give him emphysema though.
The cancer didn't kill him. Nor did the emphy. He was in remission. Chemo killed him (well, side effects.).
As Dennis Leary once said. 'It's not "life sucks then you die." but 'life sucks, then you get cancer - then you go into remission - then you get hit by a bus leaving the clinic and then, maybe, just maybe, you die." .'
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I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
That would be a valid argument if miniatures stunk and caused cancer, but they don't.
I'm sure if you melt them (the plastics) down and huff the smoke they will. A special, limited-edition, best-in-the-world, GW cancer.
So don't burn your GW plastics and huff them.
Chromedog doesn't smoke (but has).
Chromedog's Dad smoked.
Chromedog's dad had lung cancer.
Chromedog's dad was also an electroplater exposed to small amounts of hexavalent chromium and various and sundry volatiles and noxious chemical fumes for nigh on 40 years.
Doctors could NOT confirm (under those conditions) that smoking was to blame for the cancer.
It probably DID give him emphysema though.
The cancer didn't kill him. Nor did the emphy. He was in remission.
Chemo killed him (well, side effects.).
As Dennis Leary once said. 'It's not "life sucks then you die." but 'life sucks, then you get cancer - then you go into remission - then you get hit by a bus leaving the clinic and then, maybe, just maybe, you die." .'
.." And that, Ladies and Gentlemen pretty much sums up life in a nutshell...now, where's Cliffy with that bow and arrow?"
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
ing did it and I'm proud to no end with my self, you can do it too......think how big your armies would swell if you bought plasticrack instead.
Tyr Redfang's Great Company
: The Primal Host- Double as Angry Marines who went to far... 
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