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gerard · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 581 Location: Internet Cafe

Smoking is good for you. All the cool people smoke cigarettes.

Only clowns do not smoke. And eat at BurgerKing!! MMM good food.

Remember you are never too old. Only losers dont smoke.

This was brought to you by Big Tobacco! Smoke kids and dont sue us when you grow up. Litigation is for losers and non-smokers. The cool people smoke. Only the good die young ---especially if they are chain smokers. But remember how cool you look smoking/

khmerhit · Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 3:53 pm Post subject:

Someone in Cambodia told me once that he was in a bar or a restaurant, sitting next to a handful of marketing men. They were looking at a map of the city and pointing to the schools where they wanted to erect billboards with cigarette ads. Lovely.

lagerlout2006 · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 985

It isnt so much smoking but the anti-smoking fanatics. They make me want to take up the habit. But alas I cannot afford it. Lager is expensive enough and I dont need more bad habits.

Having said that yes I agree with the OP. We all should smoke. Pregnant women included. Wink

Maybe the government should supply us all with cigarettes. As they do here in China apparently. This might explain the coughing and spitting.

gingermeggs · Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Posts: 162

HUMMMMM!!!! I'll bet 1000 kuai that both Lager and Gerard are SMOKERS!. I agree about the fanatics...I hate fanatics. They are crazy. Anti-drink, anti-smokes, anti-this, anti-that. Mind your own furking business, I say. Especially when it comes to swearing. Now, I don't swear in normal conversation (usually) but when it is forbidden,especially by a puritanical netnanny software program, I get a trifle annoyed. America is a Puritan country, full of hypocrites, who go to church on Sunday, but will turn around on Monday and shaft anyone in their way. So I say ....SWEAR..and may your god swear with you!......and drink to your hearts content!..........and smoke as much as you like!...........and indulge in oral sex, even though it may cause cancer!.........Rebels of the world, UNITE!!!!!

Contest for rude, disgusting Limericks now open.....refer to my previous post for a sample.

dmb · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 8397

I smoke 60 a day. Does anyone smoke more than that?

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I smoked one once when I was 16. And never again. So no, I can't beat 60 a day.

And I assume we're talking about tobacco?

d

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

I'm cool, and I smoke Cool

For me, smoking and teaching go hand in hand. It fills in the time between classes wonderfully.

bayabule · Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 82 Location: East Java Indonesia

Gingermeggs,
Oral sex causes CANCER????? Shocked

Holy *&^% when did they decide that? Suddenly feel somewhat out of touch, please enlighten me!
Hmmm maybe that's why the Indonesian govt. are trying to make it illegal, along with sodomy, unmarried cohabitation and homosexuality. But interestingly enough not smoking, which is good since I smoke like a chimney.( of course officer I certainly don't indulge in any of the others)
Wink

johnslat · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject: Where's there's smoke . . . .

Dear bayabule,
It must be true; the BBC world news says so. First, the bad news:

"Some cases of mouth cancer could be caused by a virus contracted during oral sex, scientists have warned. "

And now, the good news:

"But they stressed people did not need to alter their behaviour."

Here's the link to the article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3485158.stm

As a non-inhaling smoker (I know, I know - "Why do you do it if you don't inhale"? Beats me; habit, I guess), I'm probably relatively safe from lung cancer. Nope, it'll be gum, tongue or some other form of "oral tumor" that'll probably get me eventually. Well, at last report, no one gets out of here alive. And too many years in the Kingdom have imbued me with the "Inshallah attitude". Besides, a guy's got to have a FEW bad habits.
Regards,
John

bayabule · Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 82 Location: East Java Indonesia

Thanks John, that news completely passed me by, but not surprising since I've been sucked into a world of reality TV since my arrival back in the UK and nothing else matters to me.
Non-inhaling smoker eh? sounds a bit Clinton to me. Well I guess oral sex isn't real sex anyway.
After I posted the last message I was struck by my own irony in being perfectly willing to risk lung cancer and all sorts by sticking at least 20 cigs a day in my mouth yet freaking out about the oral sex thing. Sadly as a single western female living in Indonesia that's the last thing I need to worry about Rolling Eyes

I knew of someone who had mouth cancer and had to have half his tongue removed. That would be pretty bad in our profession but could make pronounciation drills more fun.
Quite right. Three cheers for Inshallah! (except for Javanese drivers who should know better)
One other thing I'd like to know is how dmb manages to fit 60 cigarettes into a day. Try as I might I can never get beyond about 30. I do know a teacher who can manage up to 4 in one 15 min break, but I find that makes me feel sick.
Have any of you ever had students comment on your smokey stink? I have and it was very embarrassing indeed. A teenage Chinese student once told me "you have rather foul nicotine stink on your breath" and offered me a mint. I now brush after every break. Embarassed

Lanza-Armonia · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:46 am Post subject:

But the most important question hasn't been asked.

Why the hell do yu wanna start?

You are paying huge faceless coorperations to kill you quicker than you are doing so already. And they say suicide is illegal. I cannot stand it when I am in a resturante and some fecker lights up. I have on occasions, ripped the ciggie from whomevers' mouth and stood on it. Ignorant feckers Exclamation

It's just one thing that I cannot understand about the human nature but be no means the last.

LA

richard ame · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 319 Location: Republic of Turkey

Hi cance lovers

This is a windup right?
Seriously guys I really don't mind people who feel the need for the weed,even if its 40,60 or more a day,go for it I say ,just do it somewhere not next to me . I really have a deep sense of resentment to smokers who walk into my space unannounced and without thought or consideration to those of us (the uncool ones) who don't indulge just light up. Its not the smoke that is the real problem because you can move away from that ,its that lingering odour on clothes ,breath and anything else that become contaminated .
Most smokers especially the three I have to share office space with like to leave evidence of their foul and disgusting habit in ash trays overflowing with the reside of their addiction , sadly the phone is nearby and when it rings I let it cos that area is a kin to a fallout area to me ,totally gross .
When you quiz people about why they do it only the most extreme forms of alternative life forms describe it as cool . Our bosses have made the uni a no smoking area now thats COOL .

woza17 · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 602 Location: china

One of my students was going to bring me some Chinese medicine to help me stop smoking but it had sold out he will bring it next week. It costs 160 RMB and you sniff it but because it is proving so popular the price has gone up to 200rmb. Now to be honest, I so look forward to the ciggie break between classes. I don't know what I will do.

leeroy · Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 777 Location: London UK

From "Bill Hicks Relentless"

Lanza-Armonia · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 4:12 am Post subject:

Hey Leeroy!

What exactly was that depressionate fecker shmooooooo-kin?

LA