Are you a pipe, cigar, cigarette, vapor person, or none of the above?

None of the above, never have been. In school, we were shown a picture of a healthy lung vs. the lung of a smoker, and that scared me away for good.

Pipe. But never with tobacco.

I quit smoking tobacco—cold turkey—46 years ago. I’d been filling my lungs with poison regularly for over 10 years. It’s one of my proudest achievements.

Cigarette. Used to be almost 2 packs a day in my early adulthood, but now down to about a pack a month.

Despite all that, I still have over twice the lungpower of a person who has never been within a mile of a smoker in their lives.

I smoke pipe tobacco every morning sitting on my front porch drinking coffee while listening and watching birds of all varieties from humming birds to geese greet the rising sun.

Never smoked. I tried once or twice when I was a teen and found it very disgusting and impossible to tolerate. I’m glad I live during an era where smoking is less tolerated and usually not allowed in many public places, as it’s not something I want to have to breathe or smell like.

drugs are bad mm’kay?

None of the above. I tried tobacco once and it was revolting.

I should add that in the County I work in, e-cigs (aka “vaping”) has just been added to the non-smoking policy of the County, which means no vaping on public property, parks, etc.

Never ever. I had one cigarette when I was 17 years old (40+ years ago) and never since. Decided I preferred to live longer.

Same answer as @Rockfan: “None of the above. I tried tobacco once and it was revolting.”

That being said, I love the smell of some pipe and cigar tobacco.

none…ever.

I never smoked. Well to be perfectly honest I did try one when I was about 13–14 and found it terrible. Bleech.

OTOH we used cigs to light our fireworks. One of the “bad” smoking kids would have a pack and would give me a couple so I could light fuses. It was much safer and easier to control than matches.

You could also use them as a timed fuse. Those days are gone. The newer cigs have been modified to burn out if not puffed.

Our family has always been full of smokers. I jokingly attribute it to a smoking gene we must have that our family developed since we first came to these shores in about 1680, settled in Virginia, and grew tobacco. Like an alcoholic, once a smoker, always a smoker. And it is a nasty, stinky, lousy habit. I like cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco. Never tried vaping. Seems weird to me, but whatever; to each his/her own.

I quit 3 months ago.

I like to set fire to a big ball of fluff & watch the pretty pink smoke bellow toward the unicorn that resides in my wheely bin.

None of them.

@jerv How does one measure lung capacity?
@Dutchess_III How is the COPD/breathing problems? Feeling any better?

If I have CPOD I can’t feel it.
I get my insurance back next month, in July. I’ll go have all this other shite checked out then. Thanks for asking.

Often what happens is smokers have no ill effects until they’re older, and then COPD sets in. I know that’s the case with many smokers that I know.

IDK. The doctor seems to feel I have COPD, although I’m not having any trouble breathing or anything. Not sure why he thinks that. I’ll have to ask him.

I started smoking when I was stationed at Fort Benning to keep the mosquitos and flies away. Cigars mostly burning them like incense. So for 35 years I’ve smoked Cigars off and on. I tried to switch over to Pipe smoking after I retired and enjoyed it very much, but my Wife forbade me from smoking in the house just like with my cigars. So I have a humidor bursting with cigars and a butt ton of pipe tobacco aging in my man-cave and can only smoke in the garage or outdoors.

@Dutchess_III: I was directing that more at @jerv.

I smoke 3–5 American Spirit organic cigarettes a day. Not rationalizing, tobacco is tobacco but at least these are free of all additive chemicals.
I usually have one with coffee in the am, after a meal and if I have a cocktail. I have quit for lengthy stretches but I enjoy a couple cigarettes and I am not concerned about my mortality. We all have to die of something and it is usually not what we would expect.

I also smoke a little marijuana a few times a year, it has been 6 months now and have just been thinking I wouldn’t mind a wee bit o’ the herbal essence for porch sitting and star gazing this summer. haha
I can go hours and hours and not feel the need to smoke but when I do I truly enjoy it. Oh well, could be worse, I could be a heroin addict. lol
I also am very discreet, do not smoke in public, but really enjoy sitting on the porch and having that ritual cigarette with a good cup of coffee or a nice glass of wine in the evenings.

@Coloma Just FYI, not to rain on your parade or anything, but I have read in a few places that American Spirits actually deliver a much higher amount of free-base nicotine – like, ten times more – than regular cigs like Camels or Marlboros. Having a hard time now finding unbiased source material to back this up, but I’ll get back to ya.

@wildpotato Hospitals have ways. And yes, American Spirit has more nicotine, but you smoke less of it so it balances out.

@jca Cigarette smoke pales in comparison to many thing’s I’ve been exposed to. If you want to stay on that high horse though, then don’t be anywhere near any internal combustion engines, factories, or non-stick cookware or else I will take your remarks as hypocritical in addition to condescending.

@Coloma American Spirit is my choice too. I figure we’ve been smoking long enough as a species that it’s not the tobacco but the additives that get you.

@AnyoneThinkingThisIsAGoodTimeToGetOnASoapbox – Don’t. Just don’t. Those of us who choose to pave our lungs know the risks and don’t feel like being told how disgusting we are or otherwise demeaned. It’s offensive.

@jerv
I do not know anyone who deliberately inhales car or factory exhausts, so that comparison is fallacious. Intentionally so.

<- Joint person.

@ragingloli Those who live in cities. Those who work manufacturing.

Trust me, you don’t work Hazmat as long as I did without knowing a bit more about environmental science than just “Cigarettes smell gross!” or “The internet says….”.

@jerv
Wow, now you are really grasping at straws.
There is no one that lives in a city to inhale exhaust, and there is no one who works in a factory to inhale smoke. It is an unwanted side effect that, when given the choice, they would rather not have.
Just as a factory worker would rather not have life threatening working conditions at work, or a city dweller would prefer traffic lights to make crossing the street safer.
There is a reason why there are safety regulations, and environmental regulations: because the people that are affected by the risks, really wanted to reduce them, if not outright eliminate them.

@wildpotato Haha “free base” nicotine? That sounds like crack smoker lingo. lol
Interesting, but it’s not the Nicotine that’s the issue, it’s the chemicals in regular cigarettes.
I have a friend that smokes a cigarette on occasion and swears the nicotine helps her pain from an MS like condition.

@ragingloli We all inhale massive amounts of airborne pollutants very day. Carbon Monoxide is rampant. I’m not advocating smoking but, in reality, only about 20% of lung cancers are linked to smoking, the other 80% are random events for many other reasons.

”We all inhale massive amounts of airborne pollutants very day. Carbon Monoxide is rampant. I’m not advocating smoking but, in reality, only about 20% of lung cancers are linked to smoking, the other 80% are random events for many other reasons.”
What kind of argument is that supposed to be?
“Oh, other things are worse, so let us just ignore it!”
Hey, only murders were only 2 percent of all violent crimes committed in 2013, so let us not prosecute murders at all.
What a great argument!
And 20 percent is a lot more than 2.
A percentage that is certain to rise as other causes are being combated.

@ragingloli You;re the only one arguing. haha
Just stating some pertinent facts. I have zero interest in arguing. I just read, not an hour ago, that Carbon Monoxide is stunting plant growth. Just tossing in a few tidbits.

I tried smoking when I was 12 and again at 21 but didn’t like it. I don’t smoke anything at all now.

And since this has gone about as expected, I’m out. No dealing with fanatics, so I won’t even try.

yeah, go ahead, pretend to be the victim

I like to hang with @Blondesjon—<cough cough>—

I’m hypocritical and condescending for saying I think smoking is disgusting and now the anti – smokers are fanatics?

^You’re whatever you want to be. Everyone else can go fuck themselves.

@jerv A pack a month? That’s about one smoke a day? Ha you’re just about cured, bro. :)

I’ve never smoked anything. I’m a boring lad.

@Coloma We all inhale massive amounts of airborne pollutants very day. Carbon Monoxide is rampant.
then why does vaping give people the heebie jeebies to the point they want to pass laws to keep people from doing it even in a large open space like a mall corridor, sports arena, etc.?

@Hypocrisy_Central I don’t know, I don’t vape and don’t know enough about it to answer.

I’ve smoked weed on occasion, but never a cigarette.

smoke near me and i keel you

According to a study by the authors of Freakonomics a few years ago, after studying the results of 10s of millions of online matches and dates, the “Income” of the man, and “body type” of the woman, were the two factors that had the highest correlation with the success of an online match.
I read last week those factors have been surpassed by another factor: “Smoking.”
OKCupid says that factor is now stronger than any other, including age, religion, income, etc. In aggregate a non-smoker will more strongly reject a smoker, than someone with lower income, different religion, age difference, etc.
Smoker now swim in a smaller dating pool.

@LuckyGuy thats what i said.

Truth.

I vape and smoke weed.