cardboard adolescent

the more we try to hide our death (sex?) drive the uglier it'll get. i think smokers are a nice reminder that on some level we're all self-destructive.

Freebase Dali

^ Same here.

I smoke and I support the indoor smoking ban. It's easy enough for me to wait until I'm out-doors to light up. I do enjoy smoking in bars though, but if it was banned I wouldn't mind as long as the smoking area wasn't a dejected, depressing, shoe-box of a room like you see in airports.

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Scarlett O'Hara

I think it's great that smoking is banned in public in New Zealand. It's nice to go to a pub and choose whether you want to enhale smoke or not. I am a dirty occassional smoker but normally never do, so it's nice to not have the influence in my face all the time.

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Astronomer

I never really saw the appeal of 'occasional smoking.' Seriously, what does it do for you? Most people I know either smoke or don't, I find it odd when I meet someone who smokes only occasionally. (I'm talking about cigarettes here... other drugs are a different matter).

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duga

i never smoked to the point where i was addicted to cigarettes...but i did smoke enough at one point to see the fun and appeal in socially smoking. it really is a great way to start a conversation if you have to go to a smoking area. or if you are in a bar that allows smoking...well, beer and cigarettes just seem to go together. it helps me pace my drinking...if i don't pay attention then i end up blacking out and that never produces good results.

edit: if this sounds like a big excuse to keep smoking, it isn't. it is bad and i hope to even end my social smoking someday. but for now i like it.

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Guybrush

I used to smoke but quit many years ago. I used to buy tobacco pouches and roll my own. Even though it's been quite a few years since I quit, I still miss it on occasion .. (coffee, piece of chocolate, hand rolled cigarette .. a pleasure I'll always miss )

I agree with this. Despite it sounding like a contradiction, the real attraction of smoking is the addiction. It's satisying the hunger for a cigarette comparable to like one might satisfy hunger for food with a meal. If you haven't developed a craving and still smoke, then what you're doing is really quite stupid.

Since I quit, I've been largely against cigarettes. From a selfish point of view, the most exposure to them can do to me now is make me miss them.

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Mojo

Social smoking is how i started. Social smoking is how pretty much everyone starts.

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Zer0

Yeah that's pretty much how i started. I used to smoke only on nights out because most of my friends did but pretty soon i started smoking all the time. I'm not a heavy smoker but sometimes i wish i could just go back to social smoking.

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Scarlett O'Hara

It's how I started. From 14 years old onwards I smoked socially off and on and by the time I reached 19 I started buying my own packets occassionally. Now I'm a non-smoker. I didn't feel it that difficult to stop, it was a natural process, it didn't give me enjoyment like before.

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Bane of your existence

I dont smoke anymore, but I'm all about personal freedoms.