Smoking

[pjm007]

I'm sitting here puffing away and was wondering just how many of my fellow AB'ers smoke. The poll starts here, do you smoke ?

[MichelleHall]

No - never have, never will.

Sorry smokers, I just can't stand the smell.

[LesleyTK]

Yes I have just started again after 4 months quit and using those wierd anti-smoking tablets Zyban, which worked.  It took just one puff of a marlboro light and it appears I am back where I started. I hate it but have to say there is nothing nicer than a bottle of becks and a ciggie!!

[Jules001]

not anymore - I used to smoke, but gave up years ago

[gingerflaps]

yes i have to admit that i smoke. i also roll my own usually samson, but sometimes buy duty free from the polish i work with, buying them out of shops is 2 expensive. i keep on sayin im gonna quit, maybe nx week!!

[zipadeedodah]

Im another that hasn't tried it. None of my friends got into it really, so wasn't surrounded by smokers!

[Philtaz]

Used to smoke 20-30 a day, gave up 11 years ago.

As a former smoker I am shocked to think how badly I must have smelled and have to admit that the smell of it on my children after they visited their grandparents made me want to vomit.

As someone who works in a hospital Operating Theatre I see the effects of smoking.  Just glad I stopped when I did!

[Romeo]

Not me, I've enough bad habits as it is.

[netibiza]

I gave up 21yrs ago and still want one!!!!

[Ember]

No don't smoke, only secondary!

[FP]

No.  Tried it once when I was very young and it was awful!  Hate the smell of it on peoples breath and clothing.

[funkychicken]

I don't, I quite like my body being free of disease, not smelling and not inflicting the nastiness of it on other people.  

[Hgrove]

I smoked about 15 a day between the ages of 17 and 28 then one day (it was National Non Smoking Week in March, 1992) I quit cold turkey.  I used to smoke Merit which were becoming increasingly difficult to find in this country.  For years afterwards the slightest whiff of smoke gave me severe migraines and nausea;  I still get headaches if I smell cigarette smoke now but it is not so severe nowadays.

[ll_billym]

Yes.  Anything I can get my hands on.

[magicdice]

does/did anyone else play the health warning game? coming out of the newsagents' on the way to a club & seeing who got the best one, and who can come up with a "so does...." remark.

my personal favourite was "smoking decreases fertility and damages your sperm... just like riding a bike"

[Hippy]

No nasty smelly killer tobacco for me. Formed a rather jokey "Anti Tobacco League" with schoolmates as a teenager when it was very much against the majority. I really disliked the smell and even then (1960s) we knew about the health dangers!

[fibifooz]

No, and very pleased I don't too, at the price they are now

[Chillum]

I'm down to a cigar with a pint, and the odd herbal.

[Dark Angel]

I'm a non-smoker. Have tried a few cigarettes just for fun, but have never really been what you call a "smoker".

[cheyenne]

All you non-Smokers who go up to smokers smelling their breath at close range,um very Strange!!