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04/10/09
I'M NOT LIGHTING MY CIGG WITH SOMETHING THAT'S RADIOACTIVE!?!
/caps
*sorry*
04/09/09
04/10/09
Given the city of my birth I first thought "Troost-itutes", I'll award you one Epic Win for guessing that one, and alternatively explain it after you explain yours...
Just sign at the bottom and initial, here, here, here, and a drop of blood here...
04/09/09
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04/09/09
if it produced a flame however, then i could see this catching on for ganja. subtle smoke session in one handy device...
12/02/08
12/02/08
aaaand end sarcasm...
if u use this, ur a tool.
12/02/08
(Warning: This correction may include extra use of English words and correct grammar.)
12/02/08
*pauses and realizes most Lifehackers are American and not Canadian*
It's all about apple pie. Yeah, that's what I wanted to say. :-)
12/02/08
@SJRNWT: If you think Americans smoke less pot than Canadians, you are sorely misinformed. We are Americans, and anything we do, we OVER do.
12/01/08
12/02/08
And an over produced flash intro is just gravy at that point.
11/21/08
11/21/08
I've heard essentially those same kinds of words from so many ex-smokers, even 20-30 years after quitting. But I guess I can relate. I haven't have had a Krispy Kreme in 7 months now, but it would only take one to take me right back there.
11/21/08
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11/21/08
A very wise and younger friend of mine once said something to me about smoking I found quite profound: Smoking is a children's disease.
Here's what she meant. At the time, she was in her early 20s and had quit smoking successfully for going on 2 years. She said she had started smoking as a teenager...as had virtually all her friends...as do most people, in their teens.
Think about it, how many people pick up their first cigarette after their teen years, i.e., as an "adult"? Yeah, that's right, virtually none. Almost everyone who is a smoker as an adult STARTED as a teenager (or, in some cases, even younger). And, in our teen years, we tend to be not yet quite as wise and or clear-thinking as we might be later as adults. So, things like smoking, which are heavily marketed in so many subtle ways by tobacco companies to impressionable people, get a toehold on us at a very young, pre-adult age. Or, as my friend Barb said, as children.
Once we get a bit older, yeah, we know it's all wrong and smelly and expensive and yadda yadda yadda--BUT IT'S TOO LATE FOR LOGIC. The addiction has already set in, both as a habit and as a drug.
So, all you NON-smokers, I humbly suggest you get off your high, holier-than-thou horses and CUT SOME SLACK to our still-smoking Gizmodo friends. Unless you've been a smoker yourself (or battled some other insidious addiction), you just have no idea what they are up against. Leave 'em be, fergawdzsake! And for you SMOKERS, I'll only offer this: think about how you likely started, and is it something that still serves you well as an adult?
For the record and full disclosure, I'm not and have never been a smoker. But I do understand addiction. Specifically, food addiction. Many of you know that, up until very recently, I was a cow--in fact, a 5'9", 230 pounds kind of cow. But I decided to take on my addiction last May and, currently at 168, I am winning. Of course, weight loss is a very different battle from quitting smoking with very different strategies.
Still, all battles can be won, if you want to AND you decide to. But you won't be chastised by me if you choose not to.
11/21/08
This would still make a decent place to stash my joints!
PS: I don't consider my comment to be inappropriate or illegal in my country, because nobody cares here. :-)
Also, to anyone who has also quit smoking, keep it up! I'm finally starting to see positive results!
11/21/08
11/21/08
It's not that we associate smoking with coolness, it's that we associate not smoking with being a total douchebag.
*Sure, the actual smoking hardens our hearts more, but whatever douchey-mcdouche, go live in your glass house with your vegan-juice-diet and that treadmill you use every day and chew on the new research about how taking vitamins cause people to die earlier.
11/21/08
True story - my mother called me on my birthday to tell me that she had just been diagnosed with extensive small-cell lung cancer as a result of 45+ years of smoking. Trust me, you don't want to receive that kind of news and you don't want to have to give that news to a loved one either.
Now if you don't mind, I have compassion-fatigue.
11/21/08
11/21/08
Not sure what else to say, except that really sucks, and I'm truly sorry to hear it, from both of you.
@capitalass: I would reply to you also, but I'm not really sure what you were talking about.
11/21/08
@OMG! Ponies!:
Hey I sympathize with you all who've lost someone, even if i don't really trust the stats on lung cancer for smokers vs nonsmokers.
Just don't force me to quit. Stop raising the god damn taxes on them.
On another note, how come everyone who loses someone to say, a motorcycle accident doesn't hassle everyone who rides?
11/22/08
and to hell with the 'cool cigarette culture'... check out the 'cool pipe' culture throughout the past few centuries..!!
11/23/08
11/21/08
Despite not smoking muchm i still miss cigarettes every time I'm near one.