Poll: Smoking-Cool or Not?

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The Sorrow

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Drake the Dragonheart said:
The Sorrow said:
My grandfather died because of smoking.
I hate it.
Not trying to criticize you in any way as I feel your pain, my grandpa was a smoker and a drinker for a time and he caught pnemounia after a gall stone surgery and passed away 2 years ago, but I just find it ironic you hate cigarettes but the character in your av has a cig in his mouth.
To whoever said it, I think Rock n' Roll is awesome, what are you talking about?
For the record, I don't have a problem with smokers if they are considerate and aren't blowing smoke in my face, I worked with several people who smoked and I have nothing but respect for them (well aside from the smoking part, but you get the idea).
Yeah, not too fond of that part of my avvie, but I don't think the character ever actually smokes in the series.
 

odatnarat

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smoking is not fun nor cool but its something one likes doing for no reason even with the knowledge of the harmful effects of it.. i dont consider myself cool by smoking, i think it doesnt, or shouldnt, afferct one's reputation...
 

Sion_Barzahd

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smoking is a disgusting habit, its killed off too many of my family members already and i'm stuck watching as it slowly kills off another.
Personally i'll never ever try smoking, and find it a pathetic habit. Especially since most people who smoke that i speak to regret ever trying it, and hate the taste. Yet cannot get themselves to quit.
 

Steve Dark

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I gotta say, for most people it's totally uncool. You see them standing outside in the cold, shivering in the rain because they need a fag and you PITY THEM. Also you see the punk ass kids on street corners smoking to impress their mates? Also about as far from cool as you can get.
But every now and then, you come across some total Badass, the kind who is so hardcore he could sew his own face up with rope if he had to. And somehow he manages to make Smoking look good.
 

Chechosaurus

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Smoking is cool when you are 12 and all your friends are doing it but its NOT actually cool. You just think it is.

I ain't gonna lie, I am a smoker. Ok, I only smoke about 10 a day (thats a bad day too) and they are only roll ups (not nearly as bad for you as pre-rolled but still pretty damn bad) I don't smoke because I think it makes me look cool or because it think it gives me sex appeal or any shit like that because I know that it doesn't(and I've met people who do and its almost depressing) . Truth be-told... I enjoy smoking. I love the feeling of tension draining away as I puff that first smoke in the morning and the joy as I drive around my in my beat up old car, having a smoke and listening to some good music. It's just such a good feeling. I will admit that I am the only one of my friends who smokes and I hugely discourage them from taking it up but you only live once so you might as well say something generic.
 

MorganL4

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excessum ado said:
Here's a couple of fun little statistics. Smoking kills more people in Australia than the total number killed by drink, drugs, murder, suicide, road crashes, rail crashes, air crashes, poisoning, drowning, fires, falls, lightning, electrocution, snakes, spiders and sharks. It kills 50 people a day in Australia and 1200 in the USA. Thats half a million a year in the USA alone.

nice quote,

plain and simple if you started smoking after 1970 YOU ARE STUPID, unless you became addicted via seccond hand smoke from your parents ( not much u can do there)
 

The Rusk

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I can't really think of any good reason for why smoking could be considered cool, though when I'm drunk my opinion on this matter changes completely.
 

muffincakes

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Booze Zombie said:
People on the internet are so mature.

I don't get how you can be addicted to cigarettes, though. I tried one when I was about 10, tasted nasty and I never tried one again.
Cigarettes are like beer. A lot of people don't think they taste good, but other people do it and they seem fine so you end up convincing yourself that you like the taste and then you're hooked.

Also, people don't smoke cigarettes because they think that they are "Cool," but because the chemicals help you "feel better." They are like any other drug: Marijuana gets you high, Acids sends you to the 70s, Cigarettes make you feel less stressed. I don't know anyone who smokes for any reason other than to feel better because they don't want to fix their personal problems(ie. peer pressure pussies)
 

excessum ado

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muffincakes said:
Booze Zombie said:
People on the internet are so mature.

Cigarettes are like beer. A lot of people don't think they taste good, but other people do it and they seem fine so you end up convincing yourself that you like the taste and then you're hooked.

Also, people don't smoke cigarettes because they think that they are "Cool," but because the chemicals help you "feel better." They are like any other drug: Marijuana gets you high, Acids sends you to the 70s, Cigarettes make you feel less stressed. I don't know anyone who smokes for any reason other than to feel better because they don't want to fix their personal problems(ie. peer pressure pussies)
Im fully aware that they make you feel better. The nicotine injected into your bloodstream creates a temporary mild high. I think most of us know this. This thread is for the discussion of whether or not its cool.
 
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No it's not cool, but that doesn't change the fact that as I sit here writing this I have a cigarette hanging out of the corner of my mouth. I know I'm a hypocrite but I made this decision myself nobody forced the damn things on me.
 

IronDuke

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Entirely dependent on who is smoking.

If I see an unhappy/unhealthy person smoking, I think they are likely to have a lot of problems, and are smoking just to make it through their sad lives.

If I see a young kid smoking, I mostly want to hit him for trying to look cool.

A happy fellow, anybody walking along smiling and smoking and having a good time, I think isnt necesarily cool, but it gives off a fun loving carefree vibe that is. Good looking person acting like this does = cool.

A pretty girl smoking is just about the hottest thing a girl can do with her clothes on for me.

But really alot of you guys need to stop being so whiney, it's very uncool and you are bringing down the mood, just get on with your happy healthy lives and stop giving a fuck about nothing.

PS. perhaps a little insensitive, but how many of you actually shed a tear for your grandparents dying? I cant imagine I will, not that i dont think he's a cool guy, just that he isnt an integral part of my family system, and it does not affect me. The grandparents dying thing gets thrown around like mad, but it doesnt really mean much to me.

Old people die, and they do their job damn well, smokers do it slightly better but we shouldn't praise them for being the best old people they can be, as they smell like death... wait, no, all old people do.
 

Sayvara

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The_root_of_all_evil said:
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...plus it proves you have about as much sense as a Disney lemming [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Wilderness_(film)].
You mean you dive out of the way of a truck coming at you? Sounds pretty sensible to me.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
Yes I know of the myth. Why do you think I wrote Disney lemming and not just "lemming"? Bloody heck I was reading Snopes in the last millennium! :D

/S
 

Nivag the Owl

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chronobreak said:
Nivag said:
When I see a smoker, I pretty much immediately think they're cowards.
Please explain. I don't see the correlation.
I'm really not sure. I think it's because I think all smokers have started smoking because they can't be assed to deal with a problem. Like, drinking your problems away... but smoking to fool themselves that they feel alright.
 
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Nivag said:
chronobreak said:
Nivag said:
When I see a smoker, I pretty much immediately think they're cowards.
Please explain. I don't see the correlation.
I'm really not sure. I think it's because I think all smokers have started smoking because they can't be assed to deal with a problem. Like, drinking your problems away... but smoking to fool themselves that they feel alright.
But drinking is so much cooler, right?