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Moslem's Cigarettes

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:19 pm
by Space Cowboy
I wish they existed. Too many people bitch about second-hand smoke and the smell it leaves in a room.

Re: Moslem's Cigarettes

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:18 am
by Rick Deckard
Space Cowboy wrote:I wish they existed. Too many people bitch about second-hand smoke and the smell it leaves in a room.
Why shouldn't they? Because a smoking character looks quite cool in a particular videogame?

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:47 am
by Space Cowboy
Why shouldn't they complain about second-hand smoke? Because I never did when I was a non-smoker. However, if Moslems existed in todays world nobody would have a reason to complain because second-hand smoke would no longer be a threat to their health.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:56 am
by 87th
Because the selfish actions of smokers damage the health of those around them? I don't see how smokers could ever pretend to have the moral high-ground.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 8:06 am
by Space Cowboy
Inhaling second-hand smoke is apparentally more damaging then smoking the actual cigarette. But who's more likely to get some kind of health issue? Me? Or someone who's a few feet away from me when I light up? Anyway, I can tell neither of you smoke, so of course your opinion is going to be different from mine.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:20 am
by 87th
Space Cowboy wrote:Anyway, I can tell neither of you smoke, so of course your opinion is going to be different from mine.
What's your point?
If you don't care about non-smokers who have a problem with smoking, can you state so in a more blunt way? I don't care to lecture smokers, but if they try to act superior because of their habits, I find that both annoying and worrying.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:13 pm
by Marc
A lot of smokers also litter with their cigarette butts.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:01 pm
by Henry Spencer
I've tried weed on one occasion, when I was merely thirteen years of age. That's the closest I'll ever get to becoming a smoker. It's still the worst taste I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know.

EDIT: 53 guests, WTF? :shock:

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:26 pm
by Space Cowboy
87th wrote:What's your point?
If you don't care about non-smokers who have a problem with smoking, can you state so in a more blunt way? I don't care to lecture smokers, but if they try to act superior because of their habits, I find that both annoying and worrying.
I'm not trying act superior. Nor am I trying to bash non-smokers. I'm simply stating my perspective in, what I think, is a friendly manner. So if you're annoyed by this that's your problem.

One time I lit up a cigarette in an outdoor environment and some old lady I didn't even know asked me to not light it because someone she knew was struggling with lung cancer. And the way she said it was very ignorant. Now I feel for the person who's dealing with this issue but just because I'm smoking a g'damn cigarette doesn't constitute this hag to come up to me and put me on the spot about someone she know who is dieing of lung cancer. That's just rude as hell and completely uncalled for.
Osiris wrote:A lot of smokers also litter with their cigarette butts.
A lot of non-smokers also litter with McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers. Your point?
Henry Spencer wrote:I've tried weed on one occasion, when I was merely thirteen years of age. That's the closest I'll ever get to becoming a smoker. It's still the worst taste I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know.

EDIT: 53 guests, WTF? :shock:
That's too young to start smoking anything, obviously. In any case though, weed is something you gotta get used to. At least it was for me anyway. The first time you blaze is always going to be weird. Because it's a different feeling.

But as far as the taste, I don't think it's all that bad.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:10 pm
by Marc
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:A lot of smokers also litter with their cigarette butts.
A lot of non-smokers also litter with McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers. Your point?
This is a thread you started about cigarettes, not junk food. But both are disgusting. I would also ask you what the point of starting this thread was. People are right to bitch about secondary smoke in public places. While we're at it, I don't see the point of cigarettes anyway. I tried them for a while because I didn't feel I could criticize smokers unless I tried them myself, and they were disgusting. They do absolutely nothing for you, unlike a ton of other drugs. Smokers say, "They make me feel good." Well so does masturbation, sex, exercise... a whole list of other things that don't slowly ruin your health at the same time. Cigarettes only feel good to smokers because their brains have been rewired to depend on them.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:52 pm
by Henry Spencer
Space Cowboy wrote:
Henry Spencer wrote:I've tried weed on one occasion, when I was merely thirteen years of age. That's the closest I'll ever get to becoming a smoker. It's still the worst taste I've ever had the pleasure of getting to know.

EDIT: 53 guests, WTF? :shock:
That's too young to start smoking anything, obviously. In any case though, weed is something you gotta get used to. At least it was for me anyway. The first time you blaze is always going to be weird. Because it's a different feeling.

But as far as the taste, I don't think it's all that bad.
Yeah, I know it is. Just saying that I've been put off trying smoking for life. Not that I'd try it again anyway. The only reason I tried it at such a young age was because I was pressured into doing so by a bunch of my "friends" from a long, long time ago, whom were in actuality nothing more than poppy pushing, hippie fucking freaks with no lives, whom I might mention were disguised as kids who listened to too much heavy metal. They'd allowed all of that head banging get to their cerebral cortex and fuck up their way of thinking, turning their brain to mush. Hence the reason why they pushed me to try the drugs, regardless of whether I wanted to or not. :???:

The weed was more than enough before I backed out.

I have no friends who smoke, and I'm rather thankful, don't want the second hand smoke, but I wouldn't exactly look down on any of my friends for smoking, I'd just advise them to stop, not tell them to. I'm no dictator or anything.

Smoking kills and that's all there is to it, if you ask me.

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:49 pm
by shidoni
Kids like that give metal heads a bad name.
I've never tried smoking, and I've been told by people who know better than me to never get into it, so I take their advice. On the flip side, I really like the smell of smoke though... It reminds me of my dad.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:16 am
by Space Cowboy
Osiris wrote: This is a thread you started about cigarettes, not junk food.
True, but everyone litters. Maybe not all the time but every now and again.
Osiris wrote:I would also ask you what the point of starting this thread was.
Go ahead. Ask me.
Osiris wrote:People are right to bitch about secondary smoke in public places.
How? It's a public place, and smoking is perfectly legal. Why are they right?
Osiris wrote:While we're at it, I don't see the point of cigarettes anyway. I tried them for a while because I didn't feel I could criticize smokers unless I tried them myself, and they were disgusting.
So because you tried it you came to the conclusion that you could criticize smokers?
Osiris wrote:Smokers say, "They make me feel good." Well so does masturbation, sex, exercise... a whole list of other things that don't slowly ruin your health at the same time. Cigarettes only feel good to smokers because their brains have been rewired to depend on them.
Okay. But you still don't know how good a cigarette tastes in the morning.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:33 am
by Rick Deckard
Space Cowboy wrote:True, but everyone litters. Maybe not all the time but every now and again.
That's not true. People who aren't tossers don't even do it occasionally.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:I would also ask you what the point of starting this thread was.
Go ahead. Ask me.
He just did!

It's rather a cyclic debate, this, isn't it?

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:50 am
by Space Cowboy
Rick Deckard wrote:
Space Cowboy wrote:True, but everyone litters. Maybe not all the time but every now and again.
That's not true. People who aren't tossers don't even do it occasionally.
Good for them. They're keeping our environment clean. Unlike smokers though, according to Osiris. Nobody's heard of an ash tray, I guess.
Rick Deckard wrote:He just did!
No he didn't. He said he WOULD.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:29 am
by Marc
Space Cowboy wrote:How? It's a public place, and smoking is perfectly legal. Why are they right?
Because it's not an isolated act; someone sitting there smoking still affects everyone else in the vicinity. Smokers should smoke away from people who don't. Would it be okay to drink in public if someone drinking made everyone around him a little drunk?
Space Cowboy wrote:So because you tried it you came to the conclusion that you could criticize smokers?
Yes.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Rick Deckard wrote:
Space Cowboy wrote:True, but everyone litters. Maybe not all the time but every now and again.
That's not true. People who aren't tossers don't even do it occasionally.
Good for them. They're keeping our environment clean. Unlike smokers though, according to Osiris. Nobody's heard of an ash tray, I guess.
Yeah, because a lot of them don't use one. Smoking is now illegal on many Japanese streets, specifically because of too many people littering cigarette butts.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Rick Deckard wrote:He just did!
No he didn't. He said he WOULD.
I did ask you when I said it the first time. I'm sorry, but you don't understand the full range of meaning of "would" if you think I wasn't asking you there and then.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 12:16 pm
by X_Lupin
Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to end well?

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:18 pm
by Space Cowboy
Osiris wrote:Because it's not an isolated act; someone sitting there smoking still affects everyone else in the vicinity. Smokers should smoke away from people who don't.
So if someone can't smoke in a public space in the outside environment where the fuck can they smoke? In an enclosed room with the doors locked, the windows closed, and an air purifier blasting? You're not makin' much sense!
Osiris wrote:
Space Cowboy wrote:So because you tried it you came to the conclusion that you could criticize smokers?
Yes.
Tell me how that makes sense.
Osiris wrote: Yeah, because a lot of them don't use one(ash tray). Smoking is now illegal on many Japanese streets, specifically because of too many people littering cigarette butts.
Well, I dunno about you but I live in America. Just because smokers throw their butts on the ground I don't see why it makes them any different from anyone else in the world who throw trash on the ground of all shapes and sizes.
Osiris wrote:I did ask you when I said it the first time. I'm sorry, but you don't understand the full range of meaning of "would" if you think I wasn't asking you there and then.
Oh, I knew you were asking me. Trust me. I just didn't like how you wrote it. :razz:

And to finally answer your question.. the point of this topic was to get people to discuss the brand of cigarettes that David Ingram and Solid Snake smoke. Because they're futuristic and have no second-hand smoke. Little did I know it would turn into a heated debate about how bad smoking is for me and other people. Sure, I knew it would be included in this thread but little did I know it would turn out of be the center of attention. Anyway, for the record, I generally try to appeal to others when I light up. If someone has a problem with it, I move.. sometimes(heh). I don't smoke in non-smoking households or establishments either. Unless I'm given permission of course.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:42 pm
by seraphssavior
Osiris wrote:
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:A lot of smokers also litter with their cigarette butts.
A lot of non-smokers also litter with McDonald's cheeseburger wrappers. Your point?
This is a thread you started about cigarettes, not junk food. But both are disgusting. I would also ask you what the point of starting this thread was. People are right to bitch about secondary smoke in public places. While we're at it, I don't see the point of cigarettes anyway. I tried them for a while because I didn't feel I could criticize smokers unless I tried them myself, and they were disgusting. They do absolutely nothing for you, unlike a ton of other drugs. Smokers say, "They make me feel good." Well so does masturbation, sex, exercise... a whole list of other things that don't slowly ruin your health at the same time. Cigarettes only feel good to smokers because their brains have been rewired to depend on them.

I'm not here to join in the argument, but the relaxed feeling from smoking only comes from the deep breaths associated with it. Just taking deep breaths will give the same calming effect that smoking does, because that's what causes the relaxing feeling.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:51 pm
by Henry Spencer
I chew gum to calm my nerves.

Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:52 pm
by Marc
X_Lupin wrote:Why do I get the feeling that this isn't going to end well?
It's okay, I'm enjoying this.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:Because it's not an isolated act; someone sitting there smoking still affects everyone else in the vicinity. Smokers should smoke away from people who don't.
So if someone can't smoke in a public space in the outside environment where the fuck can they smoke? In an enclosed room with the doors locked, the windows closed, and an air purifier blasting? You're not makin' much sense!
Hmm, what about their residence or car? And I never said they shouldn't smoke outside, just not around other people.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:
Space Cowboy wrote:So because you tried it you came to the conclusion that you could criticize smokers?
Yes.
Tell me how that makes sense.
Why doesn't it? I never knew what cigarettes tasted like before I smoked them. I tried them for a while, so I would know what they were experiencing when they did. I saw it was disgusting.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote: Yeah, because a lot of them don't use one(ash tray). Smoking is now illegal on many Japanese streets, specifically because of too many people littering cigarette butts.
Well, I dunno about you but I live in America. Just because smokers throw their butts on the ground I don't see why it makes them any different from anyone else in the world who throw trash on the ground of all shapes and sizes.
Right, any kind of littering is disgusting, but this is cigarettes we're talking about here.
Space Cowboy wrote:
Osiris wrote:I did ask you when I said it the first time. I'm sorry, but you don't understand the full range of meaning of "would" if you think I wasn't asking you there and then.
Oh, I knew you were asking me. Trust me. I just didn't like how you wrote it. :razz:
AAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHhh111 I figured as much.
Space Cowboy wrote:Anyway, for the record, I generally try to appeal to others when I light up. If someone has a problem with it, I move.. sometimes(heh). I don't smoke in non-smoking households or establishments either. Unless I'm given permission of course.
That's great that you're a courteous smoker. But may I suggest one of these fine products instead?

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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:02 pm
by X_Lupin
I like you Space Cowboy, so don't take this the wrong way.

Also, Osiris, I'm EXTREMELY happy to finally see a board where administrators don't immediately ban those whom uphold a debate, so I give you great props for actually taking part in intelligent debate rather than ending it with a hammer.


But, on the subject of alternatives, gum has popped up a few times, might I make a suggestion?

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New 5 gum from Wrigley's.

I especially like the "Cobalt" flavor, and the menthol gives a cooling sensation similar to some cigarettes, except now with great taste!

This gum has calmed my nerves and focused my concentration much more than any cigarette that I have tried to date. (Although nothing beats a good cigar on special occasion! :razz:)

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:49 pm
by Space Cowboy
True, gentlemen. Gum chewing would be in my best interests. I'd save money and my health. But for now.. I'm gonna stick with the smokes. Nothing goes better with a beer than a cigarette! :smile: