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RE: Smoking
October 20, 2023 at 12:00 pm
(October 20, 2023 at 11:36 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(October 20, 2023 at 11:14 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I fail to see anything cool or attractive about it, it's just hanging a sign around your neck saying "I'm just stupid"

You have to admit, however, that Bogie and Bacall were very cool.

Yup, Bogart weighed 80lbs when he died of esophageal cancer at 57. Mad cool.

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RE: Smoking
October 20, 2023 at 12:19 pm
I see a nice looking girl in the street, notice she's smoking and just think "ewww..."
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RE: Smoking
October 20, 2023 at 12:39 pm
(October 20, 2023 at 5:20 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: What are people's opinions on smoking?
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RE: Smoking
October 20, 2023 at 2:51 pm
(October 20, 2023 at 12:00 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 20, 2023 at 11:36 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: You have to admit, however, that Bogie and Bacall were very cool.

Yup, Bogart weighed 80lbs when he died of esophageal cancer at 57. Mad cool.

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RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 12:37 am
I was a smoker on and off (mostly on) for 30 years, I quit 8 years ago.

I don't care to be around it at all any longer.
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RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 12:39 am
(October 20, 2023 at 9:53 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: I've always thought it looked very cool and aesthetically pleasing.

My stepmother looked very cool and aesthetically while she was dying of lung cancer.
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#27
RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 12:44 am
(October 20, 2023 at 9:56 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Well, yes.  But that doesn't detract from its coolness and aesthetic quality.  Something can be deadly yet also look good.

Who told you it is cool and why did they tell you that?
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RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 2:26 am
(October 20, 2023 at 9:56 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Well, yes.  But that doesn't detract from its coolness and aesthetic quality.  Something can be deadly yet also look good.

If the mainstream scolds and disapproves, that makes it more desirable to some people. A desire to defy the normies makes smoking appealing to some percentage of people.
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RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 2:58 am (This post was last modified: October 21, 2023 at 3:01 am by Ravenshire.)
(October 20, 2023 at 5:20 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: What are people's opinions on smoking?

Gave it up five years ago next April, after 35 years, and don't miss it one fucking bit. That "cool factor" sucks ass when a single flight of stairs leaves you winded.

I did my first sub 13 minute mile the other day. Something that, if I had been forced to do it five years ago, would likely have caused a coronary event.

I missed smoking for a while. Now I can only look back and ask "How could I have been so monumentally fucking stupid?"
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RE: Smoking
October 21, 2023 at 2:58 am (This post was last modified: October 21, 2023 at 3:02 am by Ravenshire.)
(October 21, 2023 at 2:26 am)Belacqua Wrote:
(October 20, 2023 at 9:56 am)FrustratedFool Wrote: Well, yes.  But that doesn't detract from its coolness and aesthetic quality.  Something can be deadly yet also look good.

If the mainstream scolds and disapproves, that makes it more desirable to some people. A desire to defy the normies makes smoking appealing to some percentage of people.
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