Smoke 'em if you got 'em
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@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
One of my favorite pathologists smoked a pipe. He was lousy in a production oriented pathology section, but I would rather have him read my stuff than any other path I worked with. He was the quintessential educated, Old Money Southerner, down to the fact that he owned a plantation. Med school at Tulane, residency at Vanderbilt, which is where he taught until he took over the reigns of the farm.
You could tell when he had a tough set of slides to read, as out came an old briar pipe from his lab coat pocket and he'd reach in his desk for his tobacco pouch and lighter. Most of the time, he'd fire it up, take a puff or two, then lay it aside while he stuck his head back in his microscope. If it was particularly tough, he might have to repack and relight that old pipe two or three times. When you smelled the pipe - which always smelled like Borkum Riff - or saw the smoke wafting out of his office, you knew he was deep in thought.
He could be maddenly slow, but he was very rarely ever wrong...
@jolly said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@lufins-dad said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Once or twice a year I'll sit outside with a nice adult beverage and a decent cigar. I thoroughly enjoy the taste and the slight nicotine buzz. Then I realize I smell like shit and shower and brush my teeth with lysol and a brillo pad.
I tried to smoke cigars countless times. After about half the cigar, my tongue felt like a backhoe drove over it.
And yeah, they're smelly.
I did enjoy a pipe, however, despite all the fussiness of it.
One of my favorite pathologists smoked a pipe. He was lousy in a production oriented pathology section, but I would rather have him read my stuff than any other path I worked with. He was the quintessential educated, Old Money Southerner, down to the fact that he owned a plantation. Med school at Tulane, residency at Vanderbilt, which is where he taught until he took over the reigns of the farm.
You could tell when he had a tough set of slides to read, as out came an old briar pipe from his lab coat pocket and he'd reach in his desk for his tobacco pouch and lighter. Most of the time, he'd fire it up, take a puff or two, then lay it aside while he stuck his head back in his microscope. If it was particularly tough, he might have to repack and relight that old pipe two or three times. When you smelled the pipe - which always smelled like Borkum Riff - or saw the smoke wafting out of his office, you knew he was deep in thought.
He could be maddenly slow, but he was very rarely ever wrong...
My dad smoked a pipe. At first glance, he was the quintessential mad scientist. Went to Cambridge, spoke with a stammer, wore a tweed sports jacket to work, and could easily get lost on the way to the shops.
He often took a long time to come to a decision, and he was rarely ever wrong, but in another way. He was possibly the most honest man I've ever known. Would always, always, always do what he believed to be right. I miss him a lot.
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Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
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Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
Still, it could easily backfire
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@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
Considering how well prohibition has worked out in the past, I'm really surprised the Kiwis are doing this.
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
Still, it could easily backfire
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
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@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
I was only joking
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It is hard to imagine how great it was
In college, we smoked in class, nobody complained
At work we smoked in crowded meetings, nobody complained
At restaurants, airplanes and hospitals, go ahead, have a smoke
Our children will never know that freedom
@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It is hard to imagine how great it was
In college, we smoked in class, nobody complained
At work we smoked in crowded meetings, nobody complained
At restaurants, airplanes and hospitals, go ahead, have a smoke
Our children will never know that freedom
Lung cancer is a horrible way to die. I had a friend who died a couple of years ago after smoking his whole life. He was younger than I am and left behind two teenage kids.
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The cigarettes got my father at age 73 with COPD
My 92 year old mother is still smoking, she is fine, her father smoked until age 98, no problem
Like most things, smoking cigarettes doesn't guarantee anything
Neither does whisky, let's hope the wokes never get ahold of alcohol again, wishful thinking I know.
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What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
I was only joking
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@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
Now ask them how many of their friends vape.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
WTF dude you were living in MA when that happened. I was spending every other week there.
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@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
Now ask them how many of their friends vape.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
WTF dude you were living in MA when that happened. I was spending every other week there.
@jon-nyc said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@george-k said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
It’s not really the same tactic. They’re not banning it for older people, just people who’ve never had the opportunity.
I totally understand the difference. But, in 20 years, when the "older" people are no longer around to smoke them, it will be precisely prohibition.
It’s interesting. I asked my kids about it and they said hardly anybody smokes tobacco that they know. Quite a few smoke weed, but not cigarettes. Now we’re talking nice middle class neighborhood, so maybe not representative.
Now ask them how many of their friends vape.
When they banned smoking in British pubs a lot of us couldn’t imagine going in any more, but it’s a distant memory, and way, way nicer now. I went to an “Irish”pub in the US a few years back where everybody smoked, and it was really quite horrible.
WTF dude you were living in MA when that happened. I was spending every other week there.
I imagine the initial whining was unbearable. I was really surprised how nice the pubs were when I went back.
The tobacco lobby is blaming the ban for the decline of pubs, but I don’t buy it. I suspect the availability of cheap beer for home use has much more to do with it.
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What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how. -
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how.@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how.No, safety in the workplace is designed to stop you from killing the people who work for you. We don’t care whether you’re happy.
Similarly, seatbelts are to allow you not to die horribly and to protect your children from being ejected from the car.
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@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how.No, safety in the workplace is designed to stop you from killing the people who work for you. We don’t care whether you’re happy.
Similarly, seatbelts are to allow you not to die horribly and to protect your children from being ejected from the car.
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how.No, safety in the workplace is designed to stop you from killing the people who work for you. We don’t care whether you’re happy.
Similarly, seatbelts are to allow you not to die horribly and to protect your children from being ejected from the car.
There are reasonable people who disagree.
I understand it is absolutely, positively, without question impossible to understand that.
These reasonable people must be insulted, yes, of course.
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Almost every smoker person that I have talked to is in favor of the restrictions on smoking in indoor public places. They realize now bad their clothes, hair etc smelled.
I was in the small town of Obenovac Serbia a long number of years ago, and I went to see a basketball game and they allowed smoking by the spectators. I though it was kind of funny. Kind of like the picture Copper showed. Althletes competing but breathing in cigarette smoke.
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@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
@doctor-phibes said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
What's been done to cigarettes is hardly a result of woke thinking - that's just revisionist. Blame something you don't approve of on wokeness.
You'll be going on about crash helmets, drink driving and seat-belts next. Not forgetting health and safety legislation in the workplace, of course!
Sure, I will be going on about all of them.
But I wouldn't take them all on at once, maybe later.
As you point out, they really do all have the same foundation, some caring soul wants me to be happy.
And they are kind enough to show me how.No, safety in the workplace is designed to stop you from killing the people who work for you. We don’t care whether you’re happy.
Similarly, seatbelts are to allow you not to die horribly and to protect your children from being ejected from the car.
There are reasonable people who disagree.
I understand it is absolutely, positively, without question impossible to understand that.
These reasonable people must be insulted, yes, of course.
@copper said in Smoke 'em if you got 'em:
There are reasonable people who disagree.
Yeah, there are a ton of reasonable people out there who think that health and safety in the workplace is a bad idea, as is wearing a safety belt. They're everywhere.
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