Let’s say hypothetically speaking, tommorow they announce that they have a cure for the ills of smoking. Smoke all you want and at the end of a month pop a $2 pill and your lungs are clean and as good as new in 24 hours. No more lung cancer, empahzema, heart disease, birth defects, etc.
(However it doesn’t cure discolored teeth, smokers breath, smoke as an eye irritant, etc.)
Does this change anything?
Will there be an increase in cigarette sales? Are smoking bans reapealed? More people take up smoking? More youths take up smoking?
Or does it stick as a smelly habit and sales of cigarettes and number of smokers stay they same, bans stay in place, etc?
Everything stays the same. People don’t want smoking bans because of cancer, *everything * gives you cancer. They want smoking bans because they don’t like smoke, and because everyone needs someone to feel superior to.
Oh, hell yeah, I’d start smoking again in a minute.
WhyNot,
smoked her last cigarette on Dec 31, 2004
It’s still expensive, smelly, and addictive. Who needs that? And, yes, a good part of what is driving smoking bans is the fact that it is just all around nasty. When I ask for a non-smoking car or hotel room, it has nothing to do with fear of second hand smoke.
However, I do think it would lead to a huge increase in smoking among people with disposable income, which includes kids.
Perhaps it would help in some cases. Such as the city of Calabasas here in the LA area that wants to ban smoking in apartments.
Not for me. I’m grateful every day to be rid of that nasty ball and chain.
Stoid…Smoke Free since September 2000 and forever
(Even though it made my ADD WAY worse…stopping, not smoking)
I’d almost say yes, I’d take it up again, but since this miracle pill doesn’t do anything for my cardio, I wouldn’t. If this pill were taken daily and fixed my lungs up good as new, I might do it. I just exercise and cycle to much to wreck my lungs cardio threashold.
I’d pick the habit back up if there were no health consequences. (Smoke free since 1994). Menthol Cloves even!
I don’t think I would restart. It stinks too much, and my house would be all yellow and yucky!
(Smoke-free since Aug 2003)
If this pill also made it so that nicotine wouldn’t addict you, then I’d definitely smoke. But if I couldn’t get through a workday without wanting a cig, forget it.
The only person I’d care about as far as stinking goes would be my wife, and she’d be smoking too.
I don’t see why anyone would want an addiction that makes you and your clothes stink, and your house turn yellow.
I was at an eldery woman’s (smoker) house last weekend and brushed a picture on the wall with my shoulder. The original color of the walls was about four shades brighter than the dull off white that 30 years of smoke had colored them.
Yes, I’d probably succumb. It’s only been a year since I quit and I still have fond memories. And that first cigarette would give such a heavenly buzz.
wanders off in search of gum
Give Me That Pill
Eeeeew, mommy, that woman is taking the $2 pill to let her SMOKE, grooooody.
I wouldn’t. The short term effects are bad enough for me, and I’m very vain. And cheap. Nah, it’s death by chocolate for me!
Nothing could ever make smoke again.
(Smoke free since March of 1993)
I never want to go through the first two weeks of nicotine withdrawal again. once was enough,
(smoke free since 11:30 pm on 11/30/98)
Oh, I’d smoke and smoke. I really do enjoy, about 89% of the time, smoking.
It doesn’t do much for your looks, so if I lost a lot of weight, I’d probably quit smoking due to vanity (wrecks your skin–all those wrinkles–and teeth).
I’m a smoker now, and I would still be sitting around wishing I could quit (like I do now) even if it didn’t cause me any bodily harm.
Smoking is expensive, dirty and makes you stink. I would love to quit, and the fact that it probably will kill me is NOT tops on my reasons to quit. Weird, I know, but that’s how a young person’s mind works.
Never again.
Even with the hypothetical pill.
Smoke free since December 28, 1999. And damn glad I did it.
Go to Amazon and look up “Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Quit Smoking” - it will save your life and free you forever. Read the reviews. (there’s a bunch of editions, but at least one has a few hundred reviews and almost perfect 5 stars. Also see Amazon.co.uk, where it originated.)