Waht do you smoke, smokers?

I wish. Alas, I quit.

What about those menthol cigs? BARF. I can't understand people who smoke'em. Seriously don't.

i am obnox pretentious, but they do taste nice. (and are sold in my nearest corner shop)

I usually smoke B&H "Silver" these days. They smoke pretty good for lights. Since I only smoke when I'm drinking nowadays I find full-strength ciggies a bit rough on the throat. In theory I'm going to quit in July when you can't smoke in pubs any more.

chesterfields too when theyre about

royals when i'm feeling cheap (ok, all the time)

menthol whatever if ive got a cold

the most elegant smoker was my mum who smoked dunhills and would actually wake up in the middle of the night for a cig! she's now an avid anti-smoker. quelle surprise.

marlbruh lite (whats the point indeed)
marlbruh red (taste so flat and grey)
camel lite (taste too creamy, no one else thinks so)
b&h (heaaaavy)
dunhill (too rich, plus my mum smoked them)

so otm!!

i am having a hard time with full-on camels though, never used to. i had these 'mediumy' ones once which were great.

i, too, can't smoke regs.

Nat Sherman Phantoms are freakin fantastic but they're so clotted with sugar and additives rich that I can usually finish about 2/3 of one before I have to go lie down.

I always like it when Parliament does its weird promotions and covers the filter of the cigarette with PALM TREES!

Gitanes Blondes, Stuyvesant Reds or Marlboro Lights in France

Once upon a time, I smoked Export A Greens!

My fancy-time choice:

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gosh, yes you do. gross, dude.

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It's not that bad, really.

Anyway, ROLL-UPS are the only thing to smoke. Pure unfiltered tobacco. It's nothing to be proud of, of course. But having smoked roll-ups for some years now, I find that tailor-mades just don't do it the same.

Last night I was smoking with two other people and a woman walked up and waved her hand in front of her face as if she had to wave through the smoke! I was outside, it was 12 degrees, there were two people smoking! The third person (politely calling her girlfriend on her cell phone and hanging out with the smokers) waved back at the bitch!

Fuck that. Anyway, my friend has just been offered a job as a cheese rep - basically, he will go all over the world eating cheese and representing artisanal cheese to gourmet distributors. Another woman came out to have a smoke, and we talked about cheese. Mold. Aging processes. Artisanal goat cheese.
She raises goats and is a cheesemaker.
I think this was more interesting because of the scotch.....but let me tell you. I love cheese and I love smoking and i am glad i got to smoke with the cheese people!
If i am smoking outside a bar in 12 degree weather, the day after a blizzard, nobody should behave like it's an offensive act.

(American Spirit blue, yellow under duress. Exports (gold) when I feel a bit fancy.)

The clerks at the two local "corner stores" reach for the pack as soon as I walk in. "One or two today?" It makes me smile.

OK this irritates me a lot because the same people I know who do this kind of thing OUTSIDE are also the ones that are vehemently against even having the option of a smoking room, or smoking bars, or separated areas or anything indoors.

Of course it is scientific fact that only trashy hippie/goth girls smoke cloves, so it's possible my motivations might be non-smoking related.

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I've always been a social smoker, more or less. And these days I only really smoke on weekends. Probably because of that, regular-strength cigarettes have always been way too intense for me.

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LOL @ "dr b0ngs"

It cracks me up everytime i see an email from him.

I bought some at the convenience store down the street.

I believe French cigarettes can cause instantaneous emphysema and retroactive birth defects.

my favorite cigarettes of all time, though, are Golden American Regulars. smooth, sweet, and come in 25 packs in Poland.

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Like we do? It is so nice, having a mouth full of rotten teeth and oozing sores staring up at you from the table at the pub.

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I forgot about L&Ms, they're great!

The other day I was waiting at a bus stop, fairly cold weather, a clear day, everyone wearing scarves, etc. I light a cigarette with the ritual hope that this will make the bus come faster. A woman standing about three feet away, to my left, clad in overcoat, fur-lined cap, scarf, etc. juts her face in my direction and says something I don't quite catch about smoking. I ask her to repeat herself and she says "I don't BELIEVE in smoking." Which confuses me. Is she saying that the lit cigarette in my hand is a dream, an illusion, a piece of misdirection? Flimflam? A theory that has not been proven? As she raises her hand to her face and begins waving the air around in front of her with a rapid back and forth motion, and scrunching up her nose in disgust, I realize she means she doesn't LIKE the fact that I am smoking near her. It is apparently up to me to change this situation, so I do, without saying another word - what could I say? - grinning weirdly, this frozen grin on my face, I move a few feet farther away. The bus comes in like 20 seconds.

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This is odd, since nicotine is a vasodilator and does not by itself decrease erections. In theory, it should INCREASE them. Poor health in general can certainly make you a sad limpy boy, but to argue that nicotine is the cause is disingenuous. You may as well say that fast food makes you impotent.

I plan to quit this year, before I turn 25.

Never liked cloves, bidis, or cigars. For some reason, Black & Milds are quite popular around here, esp. in the lower-income neighborhoods. I know they don't use them for blunts, since Swisher Sweets are preferred for that purpose.

Also, Mexican cigs are definitely nastier than their US counterparts. There used to be a guy on Broadway in Downtown L.A. who sold export cigarettes out of a backpack for $2.00 a pack. They were of a higher quality than the Mexican ones, so I have reason to believe they were going to the EU or something.

There's a huge debate happening in town (and other towns, I assume) - about smoking in private clubs. It's a weird debate, because...bar owners are unhappy that the law has a loophole, but only because they feel screwed by the law. The anti-smoking screeching group wants a ban that also requires smokers to smoke 50 feet away from the entrance to a bar or restaraunt. (!!! at which point you've walked home, for fuck's sake.)The private clubs ARE: VFW and American Legion - veteran's clubs.
As a (relatively) young woman who has not served, I don't go to these clubs. Let the old geezers smoke! It's not like thousands of smokers are suddenly trying to qualify for entry to the VFW!

As much as i love my cigs, i know i have to say goodbye to this habit soon. But...smoking outside...it just amazes me that people get upset about it.
I am, despite my attitudes in other posts, a very polite smoker. At restaurants that have outdoor seating, and allow smoking, I always ask the patrons near me if they mind if I smoke. Usually people are delighted that i bothered to ask, and don't mind. And then bum a cigarette. On the few occasions that someone has said it would bother them, I have refrained, and they thanked me. (This is usually people with kids - so...I don't mind holding off for the little lungs!)
Seattle (where i used to smoke, and live) - put a law in for a 20 feet smoking thing? Those sorts of laws are ridiculous - because you're basically telling people to stand in the middle of the street. Or in front of an apartment building. huddled, and then walk back to your drinks.
it's silly! If I am not smoking in a bar - which is quite inconvenient for me, as I love smoking and drinking in bars - my smoking outside should not be something to complain about!
I guess what I want to say is - I understand the fuss and bother, and I understand why there are smoking bans. But it has become so intolerant lately, and it seems like such a non-issue. I smoke outside! Move on to more important subjects of local/national importance!
$6.25 per pack is going to kill me before the hardened arteries.

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This is the sort of thing that enrages me about smoking bans.

I am going to sue the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall Mall cigarettes, for a billion bucks! Starting when I was only 12 years old, I have never chain-smoked anything but unfiltered Pall Malls. And for many years now, right on the package, Brown and Williamson have promised to kill me. But I am now 82. Thanks a lot, you dirty rats.

Absolutely correct. I'd be less concerned about wood burning braziers. Even the top down radiant design is fundamentally unsound. On old ILX there is a substantial rant by me on the subject.

My fiancée ("Yeah right! Fiancée!") said, "Oh nooow you know how bad it stinks! See?!" (Because I used to be a smoker). I responded that it might actually smell worse to me than to her because of my ex-smoker status. She said, "Oh, I don't know about that. It smells pretty fucking bad."

Then, we got on a little discussion about how it fucking reeks and why the fuck would anyone suck that INTO their body...

Then, I made the joke that just the smell of it made me want to take a shit. Then, we got on a conversation about how smokers know cigarettes make them go poo. In fact, one smoker I know began smoking because she couldn't shit and was concerned. So her sister gave her a cigarette and said, "This will make you shit." It worked and that is actually why she started smoking. Not to be cool. She recently had a baby and stopped smoking and then had to go to the hospital for severe stomach cramps because she couldn't shit again! They did a bunch of tests and couldn't conclude anything specific. In the interim, she went back to smoking and now shits regularly again.

So, imagine how fucking toxic that shit must be. It has nothing to do with your bowels, but your bowels immediately release?

At this point, I realized that the woman in front of us was probably hearing everything we were saying and so I paused again to let her go up ahead without feeling heckled by a couple of nonsmokers behind her. Plus, her cigarette was revolting.

This is outside. Cigarettes stink outside, motherfuckers. The stench that releases bowels! Now that is a stench!

Anyway, then I basically said, "I think they should just flat out ban all cigarettes but then, I think about it and it becomes hard to justify. 'oh, it pollutes the air?' Well, if you ban cigarettes, then you've got to ban cars, jets and industrial pollution. So that's bullshit. 'oh, but a lot of houses burn down due to careless cigarettes?' That's bullshit, too, because then you pretty much have to ban fire."

There is no reason to really ban smoking. It is just the stupidest fucking pastime ever and maybe for that reason alone it should be banned. But, that's not very free and would only create another illicit drug market.

I tried to explain the sort of "pleasure" of throat and chest seizing upon the inhalation of smoke, but as I was explaining it, I had to admit that even when you're "enjoying" a smoke sometimes it disgusts you and you just have to put the thing out or take much smaller drags. It might possibly give you a little buzz, but it's a sickening one if it does. The only thing it really does is replace each breath of life with a cloud of death. It really does nothing for you, which is quite amazing. Most other such body-destroying pastimes at least get you high.

"But, a good smoke is pleasurable." Fuck that bullshit noise. The pleasure is an illusion which feeds discomfort and that is the inarguable fact of addiction. When you "enjoy" that smoke, take a moment to enjoy the realization that you have been brainwashed and continue to brainwash yourself into doing the stupidest thing ever: decreasing the quality of your life by clinging to the illusion that it is somehow increased. So, enjoy that hollow lie and realize that is the guilt a smoker is always running away from. He knows he is full of shit and feels threatened every time he lights up.

What was most interesting to me, though, is the way the smoke smells pretty much like the smoke of a Camel Light, which I smoked for years and still occasionally buy for at-the-club purposes. (Hard to roll without a table, for me.) It's the same cut of tobacco, and I suspect about the same grade. I have a personal policy never to smoke Camels (or any other brand of packaged, filtered cig) in my apartment, because they stink up the joint somethin' awful and make me feel sick to sit in the fouled air. Decent-grade rolling tobacco does not do this. Getting a whiff of a package of Midnight Special tobacco is a clue to why. To smell this stuff alongside a package of Drum (or Bali Shag, which is a little mellow for me, or even the dreaded Gitanes rolling tobacco) is to smell the difference between actual tobacco that is meant to be smoked and industrial waste. The cheap stuff is just foul by comparison.

or, more locally, londoners: does nay cafe round TCR/UCL ect permit smoking these days?

back when i did tobacco: mostly OPs or occ. export A

Known Smokers [of American Spirits]

* Ryan Adams[2]
* Dana Applebaum
* Dave Attell
* Kate Beckinsale
* Marco Benevento
* Danny Bingo
* David Carradine
* Dave Chappelle
* John Cusack
* Bob Dylan
* Aaron Fein
* Biff Fines
* Ben Folds
* Marc Ford
* Meagan Good
* Gale Harold
* Jim Jarmusch
* David Kessler
* Curt Kirkwood
* Diane Lane
* Sam Leatherwood
* Lindsay Lohan
* David Lynch[3]
* Mana
* Augusto Maz
* John Mellencamp[4]
* William Merrell III
* Joni Mitchell
* Katherine Moennig
* Ronald D. Moore
* Viggo Mortensen
* Brian Murphy
* Sean Penn[5]
* Joaquin Phoenix[6]
* Zach de la Rocha[7]
* Tyler Satterfield
* Michael Stipe
* Cecil Taylor
* Jeff Tweedy
* Vince Vaughn
* Eddie Vedder[8]
* Noelle W.
* Mark Wahlberg
* Paul Wall
* Sawyer Weir
* Ron Wood

It's a stimulant! Stimulants (nicotine, caffeine, cocaine) make you shit.

Also: Camel Lights. Delicious.

Phew.

Oh, so, I stand [i]un[/i]corrected. Thanks for clearing that up. Stimulants are toxic, and toxins are stimulatory. Stimulants increase levels of acidic waste products and other toxins.

Also, I do in fact enjoy my cigarettes, but am not addicted.

Ah, classic anecdotal "evidence." I think we've all been there. "Learning" how to smoke is becoming addicted. Not being addicted would be not craving a cigarette after a few drinks. Tobacco addiction doesn't necessarily mean you're an instant pack-a-day smoker. The psychology of tobacco addiction is brainwashing. It's a vice that mixes well with other vices. The physical addiction is quite easy to overcome.

According to this logic I'm addicted to kebabs.

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so what's the trick?

Ignoring him? Doesn't work for me though. ;-)

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You see these a lot in Tokyo. A no-smoking sign on the pavement.

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