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The non-smokers of 'After Hours'

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  • #32
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    These 'social' smokers make me laugh. Its not very social if you have to get up from the table at the pub and go and stand outside - a lot of the time by yourself especially among my friends as only 1 smokes. She says she smokes much less when she is out with us!


  • #33
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Just wait till we copy the new Australian laws on smoking! :D
    (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12994787)


  • #34
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    I'm a non smoker, I see it as a huge waste of money to be honest.

    However, I dont hold anything against smokers and will be honest and say that I've had the odd cigar at a celebration or on holidays or something.

    Social smoking on nights out is a bit odd to me, is it a fitting in thing or what?


  • #35
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    I smoked from 21 (I needed something to do in the pub and I didn't drink) to about 28 (stopped as a girl I was into was violently anti smoking. She was a bit of a wagon, but stopping did me the world of good.


  • #36
    holystungun9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Never smoked and never will but I have to say I do like it when I get a slight whiff of a ciggy when someone lights up. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't sit beside someone that is smoking, but if some one is lighting up as I walk past and I just get a hint of it, I'm happy. I guess it's like the smell of coffee to some people.


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  • #37
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Monty Burnz wrote: »
    Tip to smokers: you can get the same sweet relief that you get from cigarettes for free by drinking double your usual amount of water and doubling the gap between your toilet breaks.

    And you won't get cancer or heart disease either.
    No, but you'll probably be incontinent by the time you're 50.


  • #38
    jokettle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,419 ✭✭✭✭jokettle


    Never really smoked, Tried it once or twice because I loved the smell (both my parents smoked so it was a familiar smell!) but the act of smoking wasn't for me.


  • #39
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    seamus wrote: »
    No, but you'll probably be incontinent by the time you're 50.
    I'm waaay ahead of you.


  • #40
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    stupidusername wrote: »
    on dying before I'm 50? yeah sure I am. but that's not something I want to miss out on.

    My Grandad smoked sixty a day and lived until 84. Lived well until 84.

    Of course my oul fella said the ciggies killed him!


  • #41
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Gave them up 14 years ago and didn't miss them really. Now I have the odd doobie (maybe 2 or 3 times a year). I still love the smell of the smoke but not the smell of the smokers. Each to their own.


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  • #42
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Orando Broom wrote: »
    My Grandad smoked sixty a day and lived until 84. Lived well until 84.

    Of course my oul fella said the ciggies killed him!
    Your sample size of one indicates smoking to be totally harmless. Hurray!


  • #43
    gazmc18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭gazmc18


    Overall smoking is a curse and a very hard habit to kick, but for the smokers here is some upsides to smoking.

    Smoking is for winners! Churhill smoked, Roosevelt smoked, Hitler didnt.

    Since Airlines banned smoking on all airplanes, the airconditioning systems recycle the used air a lot less, which makes you more prone to airbourne viruses such as TB.

    Cowboys smoke, so it must be cool.

    Smoking can make you one of the best footballers of all time. (amongst others) both Johan Cruyff and Zidane Smoked.


  • #44
    sidneykidney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭sidneykidney


    I smoked for the best part of 20yrs, Finally made the decision to go off them last Saturday, so far so good. I hope this time I can really kick them :o


  • #45
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    Orando Broom wrote: »
    My Grandad smoked sixty a day and lived until 84. Lived well until 84.

    Of course my oul fella said the ciggies killed him!

    great news! well sure how about we all take up smoking so and we'll all live until we're 84!

    :rolleyes:


  • #46
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    stupidusername wrote: »
    great news! well sure how about we all take up smoking so and we'll all live until we're 84!

    :rolleyes:


    That's my ambition.


  • #47
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    My 'favorite' uncle died at 42 from smoking when I was about 13. Lung cancer. Was fairly p!ssed off at that as you would be so swore to myself that I would never smoke after that and I never will.


  • #48
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I quit 7 years ago. Haven't looked back since.
    Somebody might be following you.


  • #49
    stupidusername
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    dlofnep wrote: »
    I quit 7 years ago. Haven't looked back since.

    :eek: quitting causes neck paralisis?
    SeaFields wrote: »
    My 'favorite' uncle died at 42 from smoking when I was about 13. Lung cancer. Was fairly p!ssed off at that as you would be so swore to myself that I would never smoke after that and I never will.

    why have you put favorite in commas? was there something special about him? :pac:


  • #50
    Gunsfortoys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭Gunsfortoys


    Usually have a few smokes with a drink or two, winning combination.

    Never ask for them though and have never bought fags in my life.


  • #51
    Chairman Meow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,228 ✭✭✭Chairman Meow


    Never smoked and never plan on it. The smell off smokers is enough to churn my stomach. Nothing worse than when some smoke happy asshole sits beside you on the bus a 8am reeking of smoke. Its 8am for ****s sake, did you really have to smoke your ****ing head off this early? The stale, pungent, tangy smell of smoke is jsut ****ing vile. I wonder if smokers knew how god awful they smell would they quit?


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  • #52
    Monty Burnz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,455 ✭✭✭✭Monty Burnz


    Chairman Meow wrote: »
    Never smoked and never plan on it. The smell off smokers is enough to churn my stomach. Nothing worse than when some smoke happy asshole sits beside you on the bus a 8am reeking of smoke. Its 8am for ****s sake, did you really have to smoke your ****ing head off this early? The stale, pungent, tangy smell of smoke is jsut ****ing vile. I wonder if smokers knew how god awful they smell would they quit?
    Christ man, get off the fence.


  • #53
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    Dont smoke but come from a smoking family and wouldnt have a problem with smokers...


  • #54
    yawha
    Closed Accounts Posts: 695 ✭✭✭yawha


    Sc@recrow wrote: »
    I tell you now...if someone invents a nicotine replacement for cigarettes that you can smoke and get the exact same feeling without any of the negatives
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055796757


  • #55
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    They should increase the cemicals that give you cancer in smokes because smokers are vile and the quicker they die off the better


  • #56
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    stupidusername wrote: »
    on dying before I'm 50? yeah sure I am. but that's not something I want to miss out on.

    Common medical consensus is that smoking takes about 10 years off your life, average live expectancy in Ireland is about 80.


  • #57
    Wazdakka
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,467 ✭✭✭Wazdakka


    I'm trying to quit at the mo..
    Been off them nearly a month now.

    I do miss smoking, especially times when it had been a bit of a ritual or routine to have a quick cig.

    But I bought a ridiculous sports car there recently that is verrrry thirsty..
    The way I see it is that petrol is more fun that cancer :)


  • #58
    AllYourBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭AllYourBass


    The mother is like a flipping industrial chimney, if anything would put you off smoking, it's having to crawl on all fours to move between rooms. It's like John Carpenters The Fog, minus the ghost fishermen.


  • #59
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Smoked for about 12 years and by christ was it ever hard to kick those things. In the end it got to the point where I couldn't breathe properly after a night out - maybe smoking 30-40 on a session.

    I have genuine empathy for people who try to quit and only ever encourage them - I have never criticized anyone for being a smoker.

    Nothing worse than an evangelical convert spouting 'be like me' bollocks.


  • #60
    AudreyHepburn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭AudreyHepburn


    I don't smoke and never will.

    I admit I tried one once when I was 18 aka young and stupid and drunk but I hated it and regretted doing it the next day.

    It's just not worth the risks.


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  • #61
    jubella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,528 ✭✭✭jubella


    I've only ever had one drag of a cigarette, and it was the most disgusting thing I've ever done in my life! I don't understand how someone could want to smoke again after their first try. Horrible stuff.


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