I say, light up! Fill your lungs with the rich smoke! Ignore the whiners and don’t worry about the future, for we all know it shall never come. If you choose to smoke twenty packs a day, more power to you. Light up a whole line of thick Cuban cigars and smoke five-six at once!
Not only will you reduce your term on this horrible stinking planet, but your last days will be packed: You’ll learn all about oncology, chemistry, and psychology! Oncology from when your tumors grow and metastasize, and you begin to feel the glow of new life taking root in every corner of your being. Chemistry from when the doctors pump you full of all those neat drugs, and you learn exactly what your body thinks of chemotherapy and morphine. And psychology from how your friends, who have been so helpful with a light before, react to your condition', how everyone avoids the C-word’ and tries to ignore the really nice-looking plastic tubes going in and out of your emaciated, corpselike body.
Alright I have had enough. This is rediculous. Does anybody follow the rules of this forum? I asked a question. I expected some mature, detailed answers, perhaps maybe a discussion on what cigarettes are the best. Instead, I got a bunch of whining, irritating comments with maybe a couple genuine posts mixed in between. I don’t want your opinion on smoking. I never did. I don’t care about what you think on that regard. I said this from the get - go. I just wanted to know about cigarettes. That is it. Quite frankly, some of you are more likely to die from being an elitist a-hole to the wrong person than I am from smoking. Sorry if what I just said makes this something that belongs in the pit, but if the people replying to my question can’t follow the GQ rules, why should I?
And of course will kill you even quicker: you can absorb up to almost twice as much nicotine and tar from clove cigarettes as from all-tobacco cigarettes. Plus there are other dangers unique to clove cigarettes.
The problem is, I believe, that the first two paragraphs of your original post come across as flippant and provoke this sort of response; if you’d just asked the question straight, maybe the signal-to-noise ratio would have been better.
SonOfArizona: Bashing smokers is very PC right now. If bashing black people were PC these same retards would be wearing white hoods. The anti-smoking rants are just allowed hate. That’s all. It’s the sign of a simple mind with the childish need to feel better then someone else.
It seems to me like you are aware of the risks involved in smoking. Given that it IS your life, you should be allowed to take those risks considering smoking is not illegal.
It’s the same as if you decided to have a few beers (or wine) a day. Drinking AND smoking are not the best things for your body. But, it is your body.
Just ignore these retards. It’s odvious they are SO simple minded they can’t even follow the rules.
This thread would have turned out the same no matter HOW he asked the question.
The point is, it is very trendy to hate smokers right now. Like I said above, if it were PC to do so these people filled with hate would just be bashing black people with their little white hoods.
Call whatever you like; I know for a fact I’d have approached it with a different attitude if it had been presented purely as a factual question, so there’s at least one little bit that would have been different.
To be honest, I didn’t notice a lot of actual hate in this thread; bemusement, astonishment, sarcasm, smug amusement, plenty, but hate? Surely that’s stretching a little, isn’t it?
For your information, there are several [smokers in this thread advising the OP not to start.
As a former smokler myself, I’m absolutely NOT going to answer the “factual questions” asked by the OP. If he wants to start, that’s his business, but I’m not about to help him. It took me 20 years to quit, and I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. I wish people like those in this thread had been around to talk me out of starting in the first place.
Yeah, but you have to admit that the OP’s questions were pretty simple - What’s a menthol? What are 100’s? Once those are answered, well, what the hell?
b) It’s just as much against board rules to call people trolls as it is to get snarky in GQ. And frankly, you’ve been snarkier than anyone else here, IMHO.
That, of course, is neither here nor there.
The OP has received answers to his questions, as well as admonishments about his intended actions. Had he asked about cliff diving, he probably would have received the same admonishments about the dangers of his intended course of action, but you wouldn’t have started in with some Anti-Cliffjumpers conspiracy.
Calm down. You’re the one railroading this.
Anyhoo - SoA, for the really “Cool” look my understanding is that Malboroughs are the way to go. Folks here that smoke will request them as a gift from the US when I go, and if something is cool in Canada, it’s cool EVERYWHERE.
I thought I’d go back to the start and look for all this hate you’re talking about; scrolling backwards, I did notice that there certainly were a couple or three pointed statements toward the end of page 1, but the first explicit expression of hatred in the thread comes before all those and it reads like this:
The thing is, friend: everybody here knows you’re not listening and they’re not talking to you. You threw out a joke and they’re laughing at it amongst themselves. Oh, some of them want a better life for you, I suppose. But most are just observing the truism “youth is wasted on the young.”
