I switched to Light 100s years ago, but yeah…free money for me. Where do I sign?
Me three (five?) For 10,000 I’d consider it but would not definitely do it. For $100,000, sign me up.
Even if I tried to smoke all 10 I might not even succeed if it turned out to be very unpleasant and the prize was only $1000. For $100,000 I’d find a way.
You know, cigarettes aren’t crack. You don’t develop an insidious addiction to them after a half a pack. In fact, I can almost guarantee that after 10 smokes, the average non-smoker would be doubly against them.
Hell there any number of drugs I’ve either never done, or haven’t done in a long time that I’d be willing to dose myself with for a good chunk of change. A few bumps isn’t going to send me to skid-row. A couple tabs isn’t going to put me in the funny farm.
To me, as I said before, this challenge is akin to something like, “would smell 10 farts for a $1,000.” Unpleasant, but $1000 buys a nice TeeVee.
When I was an ex-smoker - no way. Just one would probably get me re-addicted, ten absolutely certainly would.
For a non-smoker who could really use $1,000 - I’d say go for it, ten cigs isn’t going to make you an addict. Especially if you smoke them all in one day - that would gross out a non-smoker.
Voted no, only because previous attempts to smoke and chew tobacco were dreadful. I am sure I wouldn’t be able to do it. After retching my way through a few of them, I’d say “Y’know, $1000 is not sufficient incentive to continue to make myself feel like crap.”
Ex-smoker (last cigarette more than 15 years ago) - I would decline, because I have no desire to be involved in such a transaction.
I’ve smoked two cigarettes in my entire life. Once, just to see what it was like, and the second was while playing a part in a student-made movie. In both cases, I inhaled…a little. Coughed some. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t hellish. So, sure, for a grand, I’d gasp down ten of the stinkers.
I started to write, “For another grand, I’ll say I enjoyed it.” But changed my mind.
Ex-smoker, and no way. Escaping the clutches of tobaccy is one of very few victories in my life and I wouldn’t risk being enslaved again for 100 times what your mystery executive is offering.
I would not do it, even now in my unemployed condition. I loathe smoking; it’s just so ugly. I couldn’t watch Mad Men, even though I liked the ideas and the settings, because of the smoking.
I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life, although I’ve smoked a handful of cigars. I think I could suffer through 10 in a week for $1000 pretty easily, and the long-term risks from so few are negligible… Can I hold my nose while I smoke them?
The process of quitting for me involved numerous attempts of increasing duration followed by realapses of shorter and shorter duration. The last time I relapsed, about a year and a half ago I couldn’t wait to quit again after about two weeks. I’ m confident I could smoke ten cigarettes and then immediately quit again.
So yeah, I’d do it.
Do I have to inhale? Because if I do, no way could I get thru them. I have never smoked a day in my life and the smell disgusts me. If I can just sorta hold it in my mouth and let it burn down, I might be able to stomach that for a grand.
Maybe.
Nope. At almost 5 years off cigarettes, I’m more convinced now than when I first suit that I can never smoke again - those 10 would have me burning through more than $1000 in cigarettes in no tine at all.
Ditto. While ten cigs is only half a pack (isn’t it?), I get nauseous just from extended exposure to second-hand smoke. I even took a puff of a cigarette once in my life just to see what it was like (my dad smoked), and the memory of it is not pleasant. To smoke through to the end ten cigarettes would be Very Not Fun for me, and I’m fortunately not in a place in my life where the $1,000 is even close to enough money to tempt me to consider it.
Ten THOUSAND dollars, now, would get me to start thinking “OK, I need to smoke 10 cigs in 7 days so I’ll do it in a 1-1-1-2-2-2-1 distribution, Google tells me it’s about 10 draws per cigarette to finish one, so I’ll do 2 or 3 draws at a time 4 times a day for the 1-cig-a-day days, and 4 draws at a time 5 times a day for the 2-cigs-a-day days”. But I’d also be willing to bail out after a day if it was just too nauseating.
At about the $25,000 mark is when I’d be forcing myself to tough it out.
I have no fear whatsoever of becoming hooked on cigarettes after only 10 of them, given how much I truly hate them now.
Ex-chipper/casual smoker. Would do it in a heartbeat.
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pussy.
j/k
My father died of lung cancer, my aunt died of lung cancer, and my sister is dying of lung cancer. I’ll pass.
Non-smoker here and never was a smoker. I tried so hard to smoke cigarettes in high school and be cool, and it really didn’t agree with me, so I just stuck to smoking dope. Don’t even do that anymore.
What exactly does ‘smoke them’ mean? Light them and hold them until they burn down? Is there a minimum number of drags per smoke? Do I have to actually inhale - woohoo head rush - or can I fake it? 10 cigarettes for $1000 - seems a little cheap to me, but I’m broke enough to go for it.
I don’t even need the 1000 bucks, and I’ve never smoked in my life, but hell yeah I’d do it. I would smoke, but I would not inhale. Just use my cheeks and tongue to rapidly draw the smoke into my mouth and then just spit it out, repeat ad nauseum. I could probably be done in under 30 minutes, and I’d be 1000 dollars richer. Easiest money ever.
No. $1,000 is simply not enough to tempt me to do something so foul.