Smokers

[Loobs]

Urgh man, I remember my Dad a pack of those. Repulsive.

[t-rey]

I used to smoke Marlboro Milds, but pretty much quit like 3 years ago.

 

I will still bum one occasionally if I am out drinking and it seems like the right thing to do.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

melx- do you smoke?

 

 

Damn, two of my very close friends (they're gf and bf) came over, drank a bottle of Finnish menthol vodka, bought a pack of Dunhill Blue, seems like I can't quit smoking. At l;east without snus,

[driverhasabomb]

You can't buy Djarums anymore? really? I used to smoke cloves in college.

 

 

Flavored cigarettes are now illegal. They made menthol exempt from the ban. I believe you can still buy clove 'cigars' and they are supposed to be similar.

[Loobs]

Why have they been outlawed?

[Dr. Goldenglove]

AFAIK, you can buy clove cigarettes from "unoffiicial" dealers, you can smoke them, you just can't buy them in shops in the US now. Djarum Black was pretty nice when I tried it, even though they were too thin to fit in my cigarette holder.

 

IMO, they've been outlawed because of the US tobacco companies, which want a bigger share of the market.

[Loobs]

They are still available in the UK, iirc

[Dr. Goldenglove]

It's just the uS, IIRC

 

Sahy what you want, but cigarettes are better than going into a long depression slump. imo, of course.

[melx]

melx- do you smoke?

 

 

yeah, I do ... tried to quit so many times. I love the idea of quitting but I hate doing it.

[Phil O'Keefe]

Stop smoking.

I did - as of March 1st of last year.

I'm glad I did, for several reasons: obviously for the health related ones, but also the financial ones; just before I quit, smokes out here were costing me about $5 a day for a pack of Pall Mall lights (cheaper than the Marlboro Lights I had previously smoked), and added up over the course of a year, that's about $1,825 - and that's a pretty nice guitar or amp per year, going up in smoke...

[Loobs]

AFAIK, you can buy clove cigarettes from "unoffiicial" dealers, you can smoke them, you just can't buy them in shops in the US now. Djarum Black was pretty nice when I tried it, even though they were too thin to fit in my cigarette holder. IMO, they've been outlawed because of the US tobacco companies, which want a bigger share of the market.

you use a cigarette holder?

[Dr. Goldenglove]

How long have you been smoking?

 

I dunno, the only thing that calms me are the fact that Tom Waits managed to quit after smoking 4 packs a day.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

My friend uses one, he's a huge Hunter S. Thompson fan.

 

And {censored}, the cheapest cigarettes in Russia cost 0.25 dollars. The most expensive cost 2 dollars, so there's no real financial reason to quit.

[Loobs]

I smoke about 5-10 a day. Creeping up to 10 though. Sucks, but that's how it goes. Everyone I live with smokes too. I need to stop being a dick and {censored}ing quit.

[Phil O'Keefe]

AFAIK, you can buy clove cigarettes from "unoffiicial" dealers, you can smoke them, you just can't buy them in shops in the US now. Djarum Black was pretty nice when I tried it, even though they were too thin to fit in my cigarette holder. IMO, they've been outlawed because of the US tobacco companies, which want a bigger share of the market.

I had heard they were outlawed, but I noticed that the drummer of the band I had in last week had a pack of Djarum Specials...

[CiceroTJones]

Flavored cigarettes are now illegal. They made menthol exempt from the ban. I believe you can still buy clove 'cigars' and they are supposed to be similar.

Not a political shot, FYI...
but Obama pushed for the ban of Djarums and other flavored cigarettes, but no one could figure out why he didn't push for the ban of menthol...

maybe because he smokes menthol?

Way to pick and choose.

[Loobs]

menthol suck

[onyxrhino]

Not a political shot, FYI... but Obama pushed for the ban of Djarums and other flavored cigarettes, but no one could figure out why he didn't push for the ban of menthol... maybe because he smokes menthol? Way to pick and choose.

Wow, I didn't even know about this. That's just a bizarre ban, no matter how you look at it. Oh well, politicians have to act like they're out to get cigarettes and tobacco companies, just so they can justify constantly raising taxes on the poor (which is essentially what every cigarette tax is). It's alot easier than raising taxes on the wealthy and influential, after all.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

Menthols suck indeed, my pulse goes right up through the {censored}ing roof after I smoke 'em.

[melx]

if I fancy a menthol I just poke the filter through a polo and suck that at the same time.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

How long have you been smoking, melx?

[melx]

How long have you been smoking, melx?

let me think....

about 27 years.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

OK, I still have hope then. I've been smoking for a year, quit twice for one month during the time.

[melx]

OK, I still have hope then. I've been smoking for a year, quit twice for one month during the time.

My advice would be this..

....unless you want to be smoking for the rest of your life, give up now because it only gets harder, never easier.

[Dr. Goldenglove]

It's a bit weird, I've never been that much into smoking - I always preferred snus, but then came all this {censored} with new tobacco laws and licenses, and it's been unavailable for nearly a year now, so smoking for me is just a way of substituting the nicotine intake. But when a friend of mine went to Sweden and brought back 10 cans of snus, I quit smoking, and by the end was just down to two snus packets a day, but then the snus ended and I took up smoking again.

I even like snus more than smoking. Hopefully it'll either get back in the shops or I'll find a way to buy it on the cheap, kick smoking and then kick snus (which is easier).

 

And snus made me feel alert, snappy and happier, while smoking just feeds my nicotine addiction - it doesn't make me feel that better. Damn, being 18 and smoking for a year. My father managed to quit after 10 years of smoking for religious reasons, my mom still smokes on weekends. I dunno, I wanna quit all the time, even it's just for the family, but it's so hard. {censored}.