All of my friends have either quit or are in the process of quitting.

I can count on one hand the number of people I personally know now that are smoking with no immediate concrete plans to quit.


Everyone else has quit or is either 'quitting' as I type this.


I quit about 8 or 9 years ago now and don't miss it at all. It's also a very detracting feature in somebody when it comes to 'attraction' to me. But I keep reading that teenagers are still taking up the habbit.

I don't know about teens cause I don't pay much attention to them, but I do know that in my age group there seems to be this tsunami of smoking abstinence taking over.

Is anyone noticing this?

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You mean tobacco?

Imago

That's almost poetic.







Almost.

ThreadBare said:

It's almost as good as my 'throbbing pillar of passion'

Imago said:

I'm coming up on a year since I quit, and one of the things that made it easier is that I hardly know anyone who smokes anymore. I've been at parties and been amazed that, out of dozens of people in attendance--all in their 30s--no one smokes anymore. It's a good thing.

Efan said:

I agree.

I hope more people kick the habit. I wonder where people are living where they're seeing a lot of folks quit.

Here in the South, tobacco is going strong, in all its forms.

Imago said:

Here's an extra finger.
Actually when i'm dead, i will smoke one more time.

LeCram said:

I think the numbers are much higher in Europe.

I was stunned how many people smoke in the UK and Germany. And folks around them don't seem to mind as much as Americans do. Americans will actually give off very nasty glares at smokers, even when the smokers are in designated smoking areas.

I always thought Europe would be ahead of the curve in that respect, but it's much more common to find smokers there than here.

ThreadBare said:

I saw a guy dipping earlier this year in Alabama. It was....awe inquiringly disgusting.

A man in NC was killed by a shark last week ...

just sayin

Mach said:

Was he a smoker?

PANDURITO said:

Shoulda stayed on the beach and smoke a cig instead





SHARK !!!


Nom nom nom

i still see a lot of smokers.

I was amazed to hear that my in-laws haven't smoked for a week now.

These are people who have been hardcore smokers for probably 45 years. I've always been convinced their DNA smokes microscopic little Newports.

Hope they stick to it!

Imago said:[quote]

LeCram said:

Why the nasty glares when America is still one of the most polluting countries in the world?

abigail05 said:

Awesome!

It will be a great day when nobody smokes!

I quit smoking tobacco early this year.










I quit smoking weed because I don't have any.

RodeoSchro said:

You are sooooo my boo again.

RodeoSchro said:

My wife just quit a few days ago, and she's 30. She'd stopped smoking more than a couple most days for a while now, but now is trying to quit completely. Another long-time smoker friend quit just a year or two ago just like that, and yet another friend right now is cutting right back with a view to quitting. And so am I. I do better some days (7 or 8) and worse others (1 pack) but in general I'm definitely on a trend of smoking less and less.

Thinking about it, I can only think of 1 friend here (abierman aside ) who's smoking and is not currently seriously trying to quit.

Either you stop it, or it will stop YOU !

Everyone down here is quitting too. Since the no smoking in bars, restaurants and pubs came in and cigarettes went up to $13 a pack people just said "fuck it, I'm done"

I still have a ciggie if I'm out with people on the Guinness but now that I live up high I don't think the hillwalking and altitude would go well with smoking.

The hardest thing was trying to work out what to do with my pot with no tobacco

I"m noticing it, too. The smokers I encounter these days seem overwhelmingly to be the occasional teen who still seems to think it looks cool, or adults (in shrinking numbers) who admit a struggle with strong addiction. For everyone else, smoking seems to be falling rapidly out of vogue.

At least in the U.S. and Canada, I think heavy tobacco regulation combined with widespread medical information has done the trick.

As of last year, I believe all but 3 or 4 Canadian provinces have banned cigarette displays in stores altogether. Cigs can still be sold, but they must be kept entirely out of sight, out of mind -- no display wall, no ads, no suggestive sales, no nothing. Also, there's a bill in Parliament right now that would ban print ads for tobacco products from everywhere except 100% adult bars/clubs and from all print publications except those that are sent via mail to specific adult subscribers. They ain't playing up here.
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I'm smoking. Like a god damn fiend. more than ever. and I have no plans to stop. I mean, I'd like to. It's expensive. My clothes stink. My car stinks. My teeth are dingy.


But I have no plans to stop.

I need something to escape to during the work day. Plus it makes me cool and look sexy.

PANDURITO said:

I doubt it! I heard smoking was a good way to repel sharks! (and potential mates)

ZombieKitten said:

Sometimes the two are one and the same

connorhawke said:

That must be why one followed the other so naturally in my thinking