Do you have a spare smoke?

the_syco · 01-09-2008 10:47PM #1

With the old recession looming, the price of cigarettes rising, I'm wondering do people still give other people free cigarettes?

Me, I do rollies. Used to hand one out, now only to mates. Randomer asks, I say no, or the old "I don't smoke".

AlmightyCushion · 01-09-2008 10:56PM

Don't smoke so obviously don't give them out but I do plan asking people for some then packaging them up when I have 10 and selling them. I'll be rich I tells ya, rich.

Fringe · 01-09-2008 11:17PM

Randomest time was in Ballyroan with a few friends walking along some quiet street when some guy with a very obvious smoke in his mouth asks us for a smoke. What a scabby ****.

RoosterIllusion · 01-09-2008 11:18PM

When I used to smoke I once asked a guy outside a pub could I buy a cigarette off him, I had €2 to give him. It wasn't a rhetorical offer/request.

He told me to **** off and come out with money in future and threw the cigarette at me.

....shell.... · 02-09-2008 12:06AM

i hate that...especially when your on a night out..i have no bother giving one to friends because it goes without saying that theyd do the same for me if i was stuck...but it annoys me when someone sees you handing your friend one and asks for one..you cant say no cos theyve seen how many you have ahhh :mad:

iTroll · 02-09-2008 12:47AM

I always take out my packet, make a quick count and reply Nope. None spare, gonna need them all. Sorry.

The is no such thing as a spare ciggie.

Fyr.Fytr · 02-09-2008 12:54AM

Hot chicks or mates only, sometimes mates get told to f-off if they have a job

Best is skanger teenage birds asking for one "You shouldnt smoke when your pregnant" "Im not fukin pregnant" "yea but its only a matter of time"

cornbb · 02-09-2008 12:54AM

I smoke rollies. They're cheap so I have no problem sparing one. But whoever is bumming the smoke will often see that they're not "real" and will turn his/her nose up at em :rolleyes: If you're scabby enough to be begging smokes you can't afford to be fussy, sheesh!

bythewoods · 02-09-2008 01:03AM

If I've been drinking I tend to be excessively generous, sometimes I even offer them to people (!), but in general I refuse.

And then i feel bad so i give them ends on mine.

€7.60 a box people! We're in a recession for god's sake :rolleyes:

celticcutie · 02-09-2008 01:53AM

Fyr.Fytr wrote: »

Hot chicks or mates only, sometimes mates get told to f-off if they have a job

Best is skanger teenage birds asking for one "You shouldnt smoke when your pregnant" "Im not fukin pregnant" "yea but its only a matter of time"

Priceless! Have ya actually said that to someone? More balls than brains I'm thinking :P If I tried that I know I'd be the one ending up with a black eye

I always give em away - nothing worse than dying for one and not an open shop in sight!

celticcutie · 02-09-2008 01:54AM

bythewoods wrote: »

And then i feel bad so i give them ends on mine.

Sweet - you're a gem :P

tallaght01 · 02-09-2008 03:27AM

So, do people who ask strangers for smokes also ask them for other stuff?

"eh, can I have one of your crisps please?"

"Can I use your phone to text me mate?"

"Giz a sup of your beer"

Like, where do we draw the line? :P

brianthebard · 02-09-2008 03:31AM

Asking for a go with someone's gf is usually the line in my experience.

LolaLuv · 02-09-2008 03:42AM

A couple weeks ago I was in a public park and someone asked me for a smoke. I gave him one and he offered me to smoke from his blunt in return. You never know what you might get in return for a cig!

indough · 02-09-2008 03:50AM

i think when you realize what it can be like to really need a smoke and not have one then you tend to be more understanding towards someone asking for one...

120_Minutes · 02-09-2008 09:17AM

when i do smoke cigs its menthols, and nobody likes them, so its win win for me.

Mahatma coat · 02-09-2008 09:29AM

yeah I smoke Marlboro Reds so its kinda the same thing

jaffa20 · 02-09-2008 09:37AM

In this recession, we have to economise. I get a day return to Brussels whenever they're cheap (7-15Euro return flight). I buy about 200 cigarettes and 500g of tobacco. It works out about a quarter of the price i'd pay here. :eek: And i get to stroll around Brussels for the day. It's a win win situation

Cigarettes in brussels- 3.30Euro
Cigarettes in Ireland- 7.50Euro

Tobacco 25g in ireland- 7.70Euro
Tobocco 50g in Brussels-3.30Euro (Twice as much for more than half the price!!)

Mossy Monk · 02-09-2008 10:02AM

....shell.... wrote: »

you cant say no cos theyve seen how many you have ahhh :mad:

Why can't you say no?

biko · 02-09-2008 10:06AM

I don't get asked often so am inclined to share with anyone who asks. Besides I get them when I'm in the states so they're less than 2 euro/pack

cornbb · 02-09-2008 10:13AM

biko wrote: »

I don't get asked often so am inclined to share with anyone who asks. Besides I get them when I'm in the states so they're less than 2 euro/pack

^^ He does you know (I think I cadged a smoke from you once...)

Mahatma coat · 02-09-2008 10:46AM

dont know bout you ladsbut I live in a City, there are 7-11's located everywhere if someone tries to bum a ciggy of me I will point this out to them

course out in the Bush its kinda diferent tho cos the biggest Marlboro packet is 25 and most of the lads smoke winfields in 50 packs, so I generally tend to run ot first

Steve_o · 02-09-2008 10:49AM

Mates - yes
Hot chicks - yes
strangers - no
everyone else - no

Mimikyu · 02-09-2008 10:55AM

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JaneyMc · 02-09-2008 11:39AM

I give them to friends no problem because I know they would return the favour if I was stuck.
Recently though when I'm out having lunch in the park near my job, I get asked at least once, usually twice a day by the Spanish/Italian students that descend upon Dublin during the Summer. After a week or two, I started getting annoyed and started saying no. I feel crap when I say no, but I can't afford to be giving away that many smokes.

The Bollox · 02-09-2008 11:57AM

mates: yes
someone I know to see: yes
hot chicks: yes
everyone else: go away, you free-loading Canadians!

boogle · 02-09-2008 12:17PM

I used to work on Henry Street part-time in college. I was standing outside smoking a cigarette. I only brought one out of the shop with me and my lighter. Anyway, up comes this traveller girl, filthy dirty, coldsores all over her mouth and nose. She was a real mess. She asked me for a fag, I said "sorry, I only brought one with me", and says "gimme a drag of yours then" (EWWWWW!) I laughed and said "no way!". She then lunged at me and grabbed my cigarette lighter out of my hand (my zippo!). I grabbed her wrist wrested the lighter free with my free hand. She ran off down the street shouting all kinds of abuse at me and saying that she'll be back when I'm going home with a few of her brothers.

Couple of minutes later this young garda comes along and says to me "this one is accusing you of assaulting her". I explained to him what happened, and he said "yeah, she's well known anyway". She stood behind him screaming about how I'd just broken her wrist. He told her to get off the street and if he saw her or any of her family in the area today he's arrest them.

So, haven't gotten into any street fights since I quit smoking. Still have that zippo though.

seamus · 02-09-2008 12:24PM

Don't smoke, but I seem to give the impression that I do. Plenty of people have remarked to me, "Oh you've given up?", despite me having never actually smoked full time in my life.

Had a guy ask me for a smoke outside a nightclub one night a few years back. I told him I don't smoke. "Alright, fair search?" he says. "Fuck off", I says.

Imagine asking for 20c for the bus and then saying "Fair search"...

For those who don't know what "fair search" means, I used to encounter it in school where if you claimed you had no cigarettes, people thought it was only fair that they were allow to search you to make sure :rolleyes:

nomorebadtown · 02-09-2008 12:41PM

PillyPen wrote: »

A couple weeks ago I was in a public park and someone asked me for a smoke. I gave him one and he offered me a smoke from his blunt in return. You never know what you might get in return for a cig!

that was a metaphor. careful now.

02-09-2008 01:06PM

indough wrote: »

i think when you realize what it can be like to really need a smoke and not have one then you tend to be more understanding towards someone asking for one...

True, I've been so stuck for one in the past that I'll always give one if i have one spare.

jaffa20 wrote: »

In this recession, we have to economise. I get a day return to Brussels whenever they're cheap (7-15Euro return flight). I buy about 200 cigarettes and 500g of tobacco. It works out about a quarter of the price i'd pay here. :eek: And i get to stroll around Brussels for the day. It's a win win situation

Cigarettes in brussels- 3.30Euro
Cigarettes in Ireland- 7.50Euro

Tobacco 25g in ireland- 7.70Euro
Tobocco 50g in Brussels-3.30Euro (Twice as much for more than half the price!!)

When i was over there, I got a green pack of this rolling toboacco called "Belgam" and can't get the fecking stuff anywhere. How often do you go over and is it really that cheap? I'd love to get me hands on some more, nicer than any tobacco i've ever smoked (rollies or filtered).

allybhoy · 02-09-2008 01:21PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Don't smoke so obviously don't give them out but I do plan asking people for some then packaging them up when I have 10 and selling them. I'll be rich I tells ya, rich.

You will have to wait till you scab 20 then sell em, otherwise you'd be breaking the law, because kids these days are so stupid they havnt figured out how to pool their money together to pay a box of 20.

If im in a smoking garden or outside a pub\NC etc, I do give smokes out if people ask for 1, but I expect some manners or even a small bit of light conversation. If im walking down the street and a couple of scobies ask me for a smoke I simply say "no mate dont walk off"

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