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Grotto
Joined: 21 Mar 2004
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As an ex-smoker I used to be the antichrist to smokers. If they lit up near me I would tell them how I was able to quit and how they should do it too. I mean I was annoying even to me!
After a few years I just started hitting them in the face with a shovel whenever someone lit up near me. After a few short weeks no one lit up near me for some strange reason. Damn expensive buying all those shovels though...I was up to a pack a week(yes you can buy shovels in packs of 6) |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Smoking promotes hair loss, too, it would seem. |
'Twas gone long before I lit my first cigarette. Thanks Uncle Dick! |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Where can I read this study to show my husband, please?  |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Zyzyfer wrote: |
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| Smoking promotes hair loss, too, it would seem. |
'Twas gone long before I lit my first cigarette. Thanks Uncle *beep*! |
Oh, I was thinking of "Swiss James" when I wrote that. No offense intended. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Does anyone else here hate smokers, smoke, second hand smoke etc? |
Do you hate car drivers too??
Because they are messing up the air many, many times more than smokers to the extent that they are causing global warming which will harm the whole world immeasurably.
Breathing a bit of tobacco smoke is the least of your worries. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I can't believe I'm being racialised by anti-baldists, it's enough to make a man go on a protest march. |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
| I can't believe I'm being racialised by anti-baldists, it's enough to make a man go on a protest march. |
You're hogging all the quim. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Swiss James wrote: |
| I can't believe I'm being racialised by anti-baldists, it's enough to make a man go on a protest march. |
You're hogging all the quim. |
Yeah!! Gimme some quim!!! |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Swiss James wrote: |
| I can't believe I'm being racialised by anti-baldists, it's enough to make a man go on a protest march. |
You're hogging all the quim. |
"We shall over-comme!
We shall over comeumumm!
We shall over comee!! SOoooome Dayyyy!!!" |
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Zyzyfer
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Zyzyfer wrote: |
| dogbert wrote: |
| Smoking promotes hair loss, too, it would seem. |
'Twas gone long before I lit my first cigarette. Thanks Uncle *beep*! |
Oh, I was thinking of "Swiss James" when I wrote that. No offense intended. |
None taken. I do indeed have a deceased great-uncle who was flat bald and named Dick. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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Apologies Swiss James. I guess I missed an inside joke about your apparent baldness or something like that. Meh I say. I have many really cool bald friends.
Smoking is never cool in my opinion though. Oh well... |
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnam mafioso wrote: |
| What's the difference between a dead smoker and a dead non-smoker?... |
When they died and how they died. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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The National Emphysema Foundation
http://emphysemafoundation.org/
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| The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has listed environmental smoke (passive smoking) as a cancer-causing agent. |
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Emphysema
Emphysema is a chronic lung disease which affects the alveoli (air sacs) and/or the ends of the smallest bronchi (breathing tubes). The lung loses its elasticity (similar to an overused rubber band), and therefore these areas of the lungs become enlarged. These enlarged areas trap ��stale�� air and do not effectively exchange with fresh air. This results in difficulty with breathing and may result in insufficient oxygen being delivered to the blood. In some cases, the patients also have difficulty getting rid of a waste gas called carbon dioxide. The predominant symptom in patients with emphysema is shortness of breath. |
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| Emphysema is the fourth largest cause of mortality in the U.S. |
Emphysema must be a horrible way to die. Battling and screaming for every breath, one of the most basic things we take for granted. |
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hari seldon
Joined: 05 Dec 2004
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Cancer's a terrible way to go too: suffering through chemotherapy and radiation until the final morphine drip. |
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R. S. Refugee
Joined: 29 Sep 2004
Location: Shangra La, ROK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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This is one thing which has worried me a bit about moving to Seoul. I was a low-maintenance closet smoker until I quit a year or so ago. I still go on jags of it occassionally if I get very stressed out.
But here in Seattle, it's hard to even see anyone smoking a cigarette ever. At least in the circles and parts of town that I travel in. That's gotta be a lot easier for the ex-smoker than being surrounded by it all the time.
So, I'll have to adjust. But I'm glad to hear that there are some non-smoking restaurants. I'm sure that I'll frequent those.
Don't worry, Bobster. I'll still enjoy getting together to toss back a few with you without being a non-smoking nag.   |
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