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by Asmoker2
on Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:11 pm |
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You know, Darkseid, I'm sick to death of all those ads! I can't watch a TV show without some "how I quit" success story sponsered by a pharmaceutical company. If you wanna quit, fine! But how much would you wager that most of those actors making the commercial smoke? lol
So cigars are bad for you?????? Well, I'll be! I guess no one told George Burns. |
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by rlf
on Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:58 pm |
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gilster wrote: Tobacco has been separated - only the inhalers are getting raped with taxation at this time.
Why do you think they are going after e-cigs now - inhalation + big Pharmacy is ticked that they didn't get the product out to the market themselves.
The irony is that a lot of people who smoke cigars are inhaling, and that makes it more damaging than cigarettes. I quit smoking for 10 years one time and believed I had left tobacco far behind me, but then I got hit with a string of losses and mega-stress.
At some point during that terrible year, I noticed a lot of people were smoking cigars. So I bought some, thinking I could get some stress relief without the stigma of smoking cigarettes. I smoked cigars for a couple of years, but I inhaled. I wasn't unique. Most ex-smokers inhale cigar smoke. Eventually I admitted the cigars were worse and just went back to cigarettes.
I'm convinced there are more people like myself than you will ever hear about. I've talked to several other people who quit for 10 years or more and then went back. But it's like seeing a UFO. After you get ridiculed a few times, you learn to keep your mouth shut about your experience.
I don't regret quitting for 10 years, but I don't have any interest in going through all that again. Anyway, if the powers-that-be think cigars are a non-inhalable product, they're wrong. They really pack a punch and have much more nicotine than cigarettes. |
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by Jellytoad
on Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:19 pm |
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by Darkseid
on Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:34 pm |
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| The worse economic times get, the more redoing or exemptions you're going to see for smoker bans, just my opinion. Just in some states, though It all depends how many RHINOS the state has. OheilO doesn't stand a chance. Loaded with Taft-type 'country club' republicans. |
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