What's a good cigarette for a first time smoker?

None.

Genesia said:

Exactly

I'm sure not everyone gets hooked the first time they try...

peacenlovealways said:

Who's heard that before???

peacenlovealways said:

Not everyone does. (I'm one of them.)

The problem is...you won't know which you are until it's too late.

they're all kind of the same really...

Why would you want to start smoking?


I used to smoke, but I don't remember it being a very conscious decision. I was just a smoker one day. You sound as though you've sat and thought this through....If so, maybe you should think harder about the cons....



Smooches;)

if you're absolutely totally curious, get a pack of really fancy smokes, like the nat sherman pastels with the sweetened filters. that way, a) you'll be discouraged from wanting to start such an expensive habit, even if you kinda like 'em, b) everything else you'll try to smoke will taste nasty in comparison, and c) while you're working on that pack of nats, everyone will think you're glamorous (well, it's true.)

Anxiety said:

totally!

I want to buy a pack now, just to hold them and pretend I'm smoking.

I think I'm going to pick up THAT habit now. Just holding cigarettes so I can gesture with them gracefully when I'm chatting at a cocktail party.

CarrieMpls said:

Do you go to many cocktail parties Carrie?

MrsGoodnight said:

I don't want to encourage anyone...

MrsGoodnight said:

Not so much anymore, no.

CarrieMpls said:

NO!

Nothinbutjoy said:

memememememeememememeeeee!

I have been smoke free since April, BTW. Thenk yew...

peacenlovealways said:

Don't be a fool.

seriously...quitting is a bitch.

peacenlovealways said:

the only kine I can endorse...

What is this the 1950s? Why do you want to try smoking?

I smoked "for fun" for years and totally wasn't addicted. But since it's gross and now exponentially more expensive, and it kills people eventually, I gave that nonsense up.

Most smokers I know have at least a pack a day habit, around here that's like $7 x 365 days = something like $2500 a year

dont do it

too hard to give up once u start (hubby had real trouble)

and the health risks arent worth it

they attributed my dads smoking to his bladder cancer- he gave up once he had his diagnosis, but sadly-it was too late for him

johnart said:

never give up giving up!

heybaby said:

That's my question. I don't understand how anyone these days decides to start smoking...

ThreadBare said:

It boggles my mind that I still see kids doing it. I have a young woman in my office - 21 years old, and really a wonderful person. She's bright & sweet (and amazingly sexy, too, though I try my best not to notice that too much), and she smokes like a bloody chimney. I give her grief (in a light-hearted way, I hope) over it all the time, but it doesn't seem to resonate at all. Drives me crazy, when I think of how many times I had to try before I finally quit and how much money I threw away on the things before I did, to see someone going down the same path. Youth invulnerability complex at work, I suppose.

damosuzuki said:

I suppose so. But Uncle Sam is steady taxing it, and media reports are nearly ubiquitous in its harm. I understand folks trying to quit it, but not starting up.

ThreadBare said:

No kidding. Just set aside the "it will kill you one day" and the "you cough all the time and are sick way more than you should be" arguments.

If you smoke, you stink. Simple as that. Smokers argue that they don't stink, but they lose some of the sense of smell, so they don't understand how bad they stink. But they really do stink. Their breath, their clothes, their car and their home. You smokers don't realize it, but everything you have stinks.

And their fingers are sticky. Trust me, anyone that doesn't smoke will immediately want to wash their hands after shaking the hands of a smoker. Nothing personal against you, but your fingers are just gross.

Why would anyone want to purposefully be so filthy?

CarrieMpls said:

pastel nats are the prettiest accessories ever. as social occasion hand props go, i don't think you can do better.

Expensive habbit.


Here's what you do:

1) Go out to a coal burning barbeque bit, and get some ashes. Rub them all over your skin until it appears grey and dull.

2) scrunch your face up until it appears wrinkled and pruned.

3) Then go to the dirty laundry hamper and pick out some clothes that you need washed, preferably a pair of jeans and a shirt from the last time you went out clubbing and came home drenched in sweat and smelling swampy.

4) Don't floss or brush your teeth for a few days.



That will give you about the same effect as smoking.



10 years free and counting!
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