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"smokers not only literally are a dying breed, legally, we're pariahs, outcasts!!" What rot! No one wants to restrict your freedom to smoke except where your smoking restricts my freedom to breathe air untainted by your foul smoke.

all the best urban

I smoke cigarettes. I love to smoke and don't have any plans to quit, although I am striving to cut down. I currently smoke anywhere from 7 to 17 cigarettes a day, but I like it best when I only smoke 3 or 4, so that is my objective. I smoke pot too. I drink alcohol occasionally. I eat meat. I do yoga. I walk in nature everyday. I practice the art of allowing. I make my own choices and stand behind them and I don't respond to the bullying of non-smokers. I don't believe that you have to give up the things in life that give you pleasure in order to live a healthy, fulfilling, and long life. And I believe that this world, fine as it is, would be a much better place if every one in it would just mind their own phucking business.

I started smoking when I was 8 yrs old...i'm now 37 and smoke a pack a day and more when I'm stressed...To be honest with you I really cant stand smoking BUT its my last vice so I'm not ready to quit yet...Its expensive, dirty, smelly and all those other things BUT I'm still tackling my drug and alcohol demons so my attitude is one at a time ya know....Someday I'll quit I imagine but not today, or tomorrow...or even next yr for that matter...

I also dont associate smoking/drugs/drinking etc with a "life well lived"..in fact I think its the opposite really.....Living like that ISNT living well IMO...sure its good times AT THAT MOMENT but the paypacks are beyond being a b!tch ya know..

wow, what made you start at the age of 5? i think that is pretty early to start anything that is serious like that. what kind of child hood did you have?
but yes, you are seen as outcasts...hubby and i have been watching old dvds of the the old dragnet series and in the 50's it was 'cool' to smoke...tides have turned...

I have a kin who died last year for having a complication in his heart and having a lung cancer and he get that complication in smoking. He is a chain smoker for more than 10 years. He never stop smoking in despite of our advice to him to stop it and it is too late that when he know that he had a lung cancer and also a heart problem. And last year he fast away.