The problem with non-smokers

[Fuzz]

Non-smokers die every damn day.

True story.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Many of them do thanks to the second-hand smoke produced by the selfish addicts around them.

Those who don't ... outlive their smoker buddies by ten years, on average.

Cheers! :toast:

[robinlynne]

2. And people who don't have dogs generally die 5 years earlier than those who do.

so?

[Mutineer]

3. So be a non-smoking, dog owner and you'll live 15 years longer

than the smoking non-dog owner????

[Buns_of_Fire]

35. So if you're a non-smoking dog owner whose dog smokes, it all evens out.

There's something scientific in here to be gleaned, but I'll be damned if I know what it is. I think I'll just have a cigarette and meditate upon it. :smoke:

[Marrah_G]

39. Unless it is a PIT BULL!

[jefferson_dem]

6. So we should not smoke, avoid those that do, and have dogs as pets.

If healthy long lives matter to us.

So...that.

:bounce:

[Dorian Gray]

30. Own a dog

and give up smokes.... :)

[graywarrior]

4. As a non smoker, I can't wait for this. . .

Philip Morris has secret plans to launch Australia's first hand-held electronic smoking device, which it claims will reduce second-hand smoke by more than 90 per cent.

The controversial "Heatbar" is about the size of a mobile phone and is said to heat specially designed cigarettes without burning them.

[Mojambo]

8. No kidding?

That's kinda cool.

I bet it's crazy expensive though.

[graywarrior]

9. Entire article is here

http://rjmullen.com/news.htm

[Mojambo]

12. Very interesting.

Thanks!

[graywarrior]

16. You are welcome.

[Mojambo]

5. Now if we could just figure out how to take some of the people around us out too! n/t

[TahitiNut]

20. Simple. Even school kids know how. Get a 9mm semi automatic and just blow 'em away.

After all, as any "anti" will tell you, it's self-defense. (Just get a jury of "anti's.")

:shrug:

[baldguy]

7. I watched my mother be tortured for 2 yrs from cancer because she was addicted to tobacco for 30yrs.

[seabeyond]

11. i watched my mom at 59 go thru an emotional hell and kill herself

the day after christmas. it is hell to lose a love one.

[TahitiNut]

22. Apparently that's not enough. The tobacco Nazi's want folks like her to pay and suffer more.

It's all in the name of "helping" though. Maybe all those who fall ill to their smoking habit should be put in "special" hospital wards where the tobacco Nazi's can file through all day and spit on them and call them names??

[baldguy]

28. She was a "tobacco Nazi"

She watched HER mother die of lung cancer, and one of her best friends. She decided to quit when she was in her 50s. Then she got my father & my sister to quit.

She still got lung cancer herself.

[daninthemoon]

10. Why did you post this? What's the damn deal?

[robinlynne]

17. There have been several recent hateful posts attacking smokers.

[Vickers]

13. That's a problem?

:spank:






(just in case....I'M KIDDING)

[IDemo]

14. every damn day? I have a lot of catching up to do

I'm way behind...

[Froward69]

15. Cell phones are more dangerous

than cigarettes

[TomInTib]

19. Cell phones got nothing on curbs..

Them things will mess you up.

[daninthemoon]

21. Haven't seen a cell phone reduce a robust 50 yr old man to a

bed ridden 70lb chopped up pain wracked creature begging for death. But if you say so,

[Froward69]

25. Two instances.

1)guy hit broadside... He on his motorcycle,(wearing Helmet) she in a car w/ cell phone on ear, ran the stop sign. He was a friend 36. you are 400% more likely to become envolved in a car accident with a cell phone. than without. :cry:

2)father, smoked for 50 years. found the love of his life. quit smoking. spent the last 10 years of his life with her. Lingered for year and a half w/ prostate cancer. he was 83. :cry: should he have given up using his prostate?:sarcasm:

point is we are ALL gonna die one way or annother. stop worring, and enjoy it while your here.O8) :toast: :hug: :grouphug:

[daninthemoon]

29. point is cancer is a hell of a way to die

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigarette_Smoking_and_Cancer.asp

Each year, a staggering 440,000 people die in the US from tobacco use. Nearly 1 of every 5 deaths is related to smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
American Cancer Society

[Froward69]

31. all are a "hell of a way to die"

A "Heaven" way to die would be bieng chased to death by 50 naked women. I digress... like ol' Groucho there he smoked Cigars he said from the time he could walk. it was a part of him... he was 87, pneumonia flat out old age. why do I think you would like to remove his Cigar from his mouth??? "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke."~ Groucho Marx

If you take all deaths. vs lung throat cancer they still pail in comparison. preventible yes... like removing ALL cell phones when you drive? why not?? or pneumonia?

[silverojo]

33. Whatever you do

Don't let facts influence your opinions....

[Froward69]

41. ok ill just read my paper

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CANCER_RATES?SITE=CODER&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-10-15-07-52-02;

[silverojo]

32. Yeah, right

And iPods are more dangerous than eating tons of McDonald's food every day for years, until you develop heart trouble.

It's amazing, the things that nicotine addicts will come up with, to justify their cancer stick fix.

[Spinzonner]

18. But we have prettier lungs when we die

[Dr. Strange]

23. Liar!

I'm a nonsmoker and I hardly ever die. I can go days without dying.
So put that in your neighbor's pipe and second-hand smoke it!


Edited...because apostrophes are our friends.

[cboy4]

24. I'm convinced that if a thread has the word

"smoke" in it, even if it's something benign like the expression, "Holy smokes! - it will receive no fewer than 1,800 posts.

We're off to a good start with this one! :bounce:

[Fuzz]

26. Like "Holy Smoke" by Iron Maiden is a good song?

;)

[cboy4]

27. Yup!!!!!!

LOL

(and thanks for tricking me into adding to your smoker thread count!)

[LunaSea]

34. Holy smoke?

Like this?

[XOKCowboy]

36. RU a Bill Hicks fan by any chance??

:)

[Fuzz]

38. I miss him so much

;)

[NashVegas]

40. I Loved That Routine

"Two packs a day? Pansy. Why don't you just put on a tutu?"

[skyblue]

37. Having had a relative seriously incapacitated by a smoking related illness

Sorry but I'm damn proud not to be a smoker. (tho' i've wound up dating many smokers). Smokers are not more laid back than others. It's got that if i decided to jump off a cliff would you do so also kinda feel.