# Ok, so who here actually likes Smoking? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451 "2003-01-18T12:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/1 "2003-01-18T12:20:15Z")
I have noticed the lack of people who actually condone smoking and enjoying a fine tobacco product now and then, so who here actually likes smoking, yes I’ve had the lessons on how ‘smoking is bad for you’ and I’ve got to admit, I don’t care for the moment, I wanna enjoy the things I want to do. So do you like smoking? What annoys people, apart from the dying bit, about people smoking? ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/2 "2003-01-18T12:33:56Z")
I kinda like smoking… even when I was a non-smoker I would go pick up a colt or two and smoke them (I love the taste of the dipped and tipped ones) The only thing that really bugs me is the people who toss their butts on the sidewalk all over the place. At least have the decency to use a receptacle if there is one… and if there isn’t when a ton of butts are lying on the ground, why isn’t there?? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/3 "2003-01-18T12:37:12Z")
Do you doubt “smoking is bad for you”? But yes, I liked smoking quite a lot. I quit last June. I’m pretty sure I’d like it again if I started again. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/4 "2003-01-18T12:55:23Z")
“I love to smoke, I smoke 7,000 packs a day and I am never! fucking quitting” - Denis Leary I enjoy smoking, it tastes good and it relaxes me, everyone says that I should quit but as I am 37 years old I feel qualified to make up my own mind with regards to my health so NEENER, NEENER, NEENER. unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/5 "2003-01-18T14:08:32Z")
Me, I’ve been smoking on average, ooh… Maybe twice a month for YEARS! I never, EVER had the daily urge for it. You lose that kickass feeling once you become a regular. ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/6 "2003-01-18T14:12:04Z")
(At least I did when I would start to smoke more at once) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/7 "2003-01-18T14:17:03Z")
I smoke more than a pack a day. On the whole, I hate it and hate the addiction, the expense, and the ill health it will bring me. However, occasionally I actively ‘enjoy’ a cigarette - maybe once a week. Usually with a coffee, usually in the afternoon. ---
**Author:** ![Chanticleer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/65b543/32.png) [@Chanticleer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanticleer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/8 "2003-01-18T15:09:37Z")
I enjoy smoking. Some might want to argue my next statement but it is true: “I am more productive and intense with my work when I smoke”. Am I the only one or do others feel the same? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/9 "2003-01-18T15:12:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chanticleer \* > **"I am more productive and intense with my work when I smoke".** I agree. My productivity goes up massively. However, I have no knowledge of how productive I’d be if I were a non-smoker. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/10 "2003-01-18T15:20:22Z")
I like to smoke. I’m a nonsmoker, but do like to have one or two when I’m out at night. There’s just something that’s right about being in a bar, watching a band, having a drink and a smoke. I don’t have any desire to have one any other time. Well, wait, sometimes when a friend comes over I’ll have a smoke with them while we have a drink and gab. I’ve been doing this for oh, 16 years now, so if I were going to get hooked, I’d be there already. Smoking is fun. I’m also lucky - I don’t appear to be at risk for addiction. I’d hate it if I were actually a smoker. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/11 "2003-01-18T15:43:23Z")
Yep, I’d hate to have the addiction too. I only really smoke in the bar or with frineds. I also enjoy the occasional hand rolled cigar 🙂 mmm…a nice smoky onyx…mmmm ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/12 "2003-01-18T15:45:39Z")
**Athena** : > [@](#): > > There’s just something that’s right about being in a bar, watching a band, having a drink and a smoke… > > I don’t appear to be at risk for addiction. I’d say it’s too late for that. Physical addiction? That you might be dodging, but the hook _is_ set, psychologically. Nicotine withdrawal ain’t fun, but I know I personally would have a lot less trouble quitting if I could figure out how to replace the physical part of smoking. And despite all the information that’s available, yeah, I likes me my smokes, too. The fuckers just don’t like me much. And they ain’t lettin’ me go easily. Knowing it’s bad for your health (and sucking a big hole out of your bank account, for the pack a day+ crowd) is one thing, but it’s awful damned tough to figure put what to do with your hands all day long, **especially** with that first cuppa joe in the morning. (And now, three pages of masturbation jokes, courtesy of the Teeming Millions.) ---
**Author:** ![sniglet999](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@sniglet999](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sniglet999)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/13 "2003-01-18T15:59:02Z")
I had this ‘proving myself’ phase in college. I smoked for three months. Luckily, all I had access to were menthol. (Once you think Menthol cigarettes taste good, you’ve permanently damaged your tastebuds.) So I smoked for three months and had cravings for about 18 months after that. It was enough to shake my resolve over addictive substances. I find smoking to be a very selfish hobby. Based on your smoking, I’ve gotta pay for your healthcare, look at your butts, smell your clothing, and breathe your secondhand smoke. Having Preemie kids and their continuing to develop lungs has heightened my awareness too. That aside, having experienced that tug of addiction, I can understand how tough it is to shake, and know how wonderful a cigarette can be. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![guitarmax\_99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@guitarmax\_99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guitarmax_99)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/14 "2003-01-18T16:19:19Z")
I’m one of those rare people who can have a cigarette every now and then (maybe once a month). When I do smoke I like strong cigarettes like camel straights, “or roll your own” cigarettes. I refuse to buy a pack of these though as if I buy a whole pack I will feel the urge to smoke the whole pack. So I end up bumming cigarettes from friends once in a great while. ---
**Author:** ![Triss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Triss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triss)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/15 "2003-01-18T16:29:55Z")
I too love to smoke, in the morning with my first coffee. It’s all downhill after that first one really. I was a pot smoker for many years too so add that to cigs and it’s no wonder my lungs hurt. (I no longer smoke pot) I’ve quit smoking a dozen times, the longest stretch being three weeks. At the end of those three weeks, death by lung cancer seemed an attractive alternative than suffering withdrawal for one more second. It’s down to less than a pack a day now but my lungs still hurt. I have no intention of costing the taxpayer any money for health care, because I have no intention of getting a chest x-ray to find out if anything’s really going on in there. It just ain’t going to happen. **sniglet99** I understand how you feel, but don’t forget smoking is a LEGAL (condoned and profited by our Loving Governments) hobby and furthermore, at least in Canada, we smokers are paying a big chunk of our own healthcare through taxes on butts. Just like a litre of gas, more than half the cost is taxes. If I were stupid enough to think governments give a rat’s ass about us, I’d say the following: Make smoking illegal…make it illegal to mass manufacture smokes, just stop making smokes available. (Oh, believe me I know it will never happen) All of us smokers would have mass-withdrawal but we’d have no choice but to deal with it, wouldn’t we? And just think how that would aid the psychological addiction: There just aren’t any cigarettes, no-one else is smoking either. Just world-wide grumpiness for a year or two. Almost everyone on my mother’s side smokes. My grandfather smoked for 60 years. Somehow, we have not had an alot of lung disease on that side of the family. I have no idea why…we should be dropping like flies. Not that I think this confers some magical immunity on myself in any way. The most annoying thing about smoking to me is that it is so terribly addictive. Making a choice to stop using a legally available, regulated product shouldn’t be so f\*cking hard IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/16 "2003-01-18T16:41:40Z")
I loved to smoke, my body didn’t. It gave me 5 to 10 minutes to just sit and think. Quietly contemplating what was going on or soon would be. I loved it. OTOH, I hated the jitters, the way my lungs felt, the nasty smell of my clothes and breath, the fact that I couldn’t climb a flight of stairs…etc etc ad nauseum… -Tcat ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/17 "2003-01-18T17:01:40Z")
I loooooooove smoking. If it wern’t for that blissful first smoke in the morning, I might never get my ass out of bed. And the perfect first smoke after a meal that lets my stomach know the curtain has closed and it can go ahead and start digesting. Or the cigarette hanging out in the ashtray, next to your beer just waiting for your turn at pool to be over. Most of my life is stress, Smoking is the part of my life where I get rid of the stress, It’s that simple. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/18 "2003-01-18T17:15:45Z")
I quit 4 years ago this month. I enjoyed every cigarette I ever smoked, including the last one. So did my dad, who died last month of lung cancer. I miss him so much. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/19 "2003-01-18T17:20:36Z")
I very much enjoyed smoking, when I smoked. I loved the feeling of it. I loved watching the smoke. I loved having that little skill of holding a cig naturally - flicking ashes four different ways as though I was born to it. Blowing smoke rings. And just looking downright cool when I had a smoke hanging from the cornere of my mouth when I played pool. BUT … I very much hated “my little brown friends” that would visit from my lungs every morning. I hated digging for quarters in the couch cushions at midnight and walking to 7-11 for a pack of smokes. I hated having to walk a mile and a half to find a smoking area in public. Now that I’ve quit, I do get annoyed seeing people flick their butts on sidewalks willy nilly. And although I generally like the smell of cigarette smoke straight of the coffin nail, the smell of stale smoke is and always has been disgusting. When I got back from NYC a few weeks ago (where smoking in bars is still allowed) I was amazed at how much my clothes stunk when I unpacked. ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Montana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@Tony\_Montana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Montana)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451/20 "2003-01-18T17:36:07Z")
I haven’t for some months,but yeah I _like_ it. This has been on/off for 16yrs(99%off) So when I _do_ occasionally puff I bum one and everyone’s jaw drops… I haven’t bought a pack in maybe a year but when I do it lasts _months_… NO SMOKING IN MY CAR!.. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-so-who-here-actually-likes-smoking/149451.md?page=2)