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What doesn't compute with me is how someone can get their hands on cigarettes, let alone that many at a Walgreens. Cigarettes are typically kept behind the counter and doled out by a clerk. Plus, I didn't think Walgreens sold cigarettes.

Edit: Apparently, Walgreens is the only big retailer that sells tobacco products. According to the most recent article I could find, they are phasing out cigar sales.

Who'da thunk?

I guess that proves I don't go to Walgreens.
 
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aleshanee said:
found it....:D .. my famous answer to the real baptists post on a smokin' hot wife....❤️‍🔥 ....the picture below of a spanish female matador .... as you can see she is clearly smoking...🚬. ... and she just came out of the bull fighting arena ...🐂..... (a very physically demanding sporting event)... .. so she;s obviously hot..🥵... ... however... i have no idea if she is a wife or not.. ...but i;m sure she would entertain offers from eligible bachelors..... .:giggle:

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Two things that are a definite turn off for me: tattoos and smoking. Nothing turns a 10 into a 0 faster than a cigarette hanging from her lips. Tattoos are a close second. I'm not talking about a small tattoo on her ankle or her wrist; I'm talking about the big ones as the picture suggests; it obviously goes around the back of her neck and probably covers her shoulder. The larger and higher on her body it goes, the more of a turn off it is to me.

Not that I evaluate whether women are a turn on or turn off ever since I began dating Angela 20+ years ago... #19 this Tuesday...
 
abcaines said:
Two things that are a definite turn off for me: tattoos and smoking. Nothing turns a 10 into a 0 faster than a cigarette hanging from her lips. Tattoos are a close second. I'm not talking about a small tattoo on her ankle or her wrist; I'm talking about the big ones as the picture suggests; it obviously goes around the back of her neck and probably covers her shoulder. The larger and higher on her body it goes, the more of a turn off it is to me.

Not that I evaluate whether women are a turn on or turn off ever since I began dating Angela 20+ years ago... #19 this Tuesday...
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I live in a 55+ community. ALL of the people with oxygen tanks and COPD smoked in their youth!

Lung cancer and COPD are in your future if you are a smoker.
 
Jo said:
I live in a 55+ community. ALL of the people with oxygen tanks and COPD smoked in their youth!

Lung cancer and COPD are in your future if you are a smoker.
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It didn't help my restrictive lung disease, either. But, I also worked for several years around bondo dust and acrylic enamel hardener (autobody shop), fiber dust (clothing industry), and sulfuric acid (brick cleaning and new construction cleaning) many, many years. I stopped smoking in March of 2000. Average life expectancy after diagnosis of restrictive lung disease is 5-7 years. I was diagnosed early last year.
 
Jo said:
I live in a 55+ community. ALL of the people with oxygen tanks and COPD smoked in their youth!

Lung cancer and COPD are in your future if you are a smoker.
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I'm the only one in my family that never started smoking habitually. Not that I never tried it but I never got hooked. I think a good part of that is I can't stand the taste it leaves in my mouth. 🤮
 
AverageJoe said:
It didn't help my restrictive lung disease, either. But, I also worked for several years around bondo dust and acrylic enamel hardener (autobody shop), fiber dust (clothing industry), and sulfuric acid (brick cleaning and new construction cleaning) many, many years. I stopped smoking in March of 2000. Average life expectancy after diagnosis of restrictive lung disease is 5-7 years. I was diagnosed early last year.
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Sorry to hear that.

“Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

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ALAYMAN said:
This thread title made me think of Guy Beaumont and pastor Joe Nelms, lol.😉
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... it reminded me of a lot of things.... . one of which i posted but since deleted....:cautious:. ..
...the other was the time i made the big mistake of grabbing a cigar from my dad and taking
a huge lung filling drag on it thinking i could some how psychologically shock him into not
smoking it... ..didn;t work... and i instantly regretted my actions.....:sick:😨😰.

i do not smoke.... but like i said - tobacco smoke itself does not bother me.... i was born
to a chain smoker and spent the first 10 years of my life in a smoke filled house... or else
being dragged into smoke filled night clubs where my mom worked.... ..it;s a wonder i
wasn;t born with a cigarette in my mouth... 🚬


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aleshanee said:
... it reminded me of a lot of things.... . one of which i posted but since deleted....:cautious:. ..
...the other was the time i made the big mistake of grabbing a cigar from my dad and taking
a huge lung filling drag on it thinking i could some how psychologically shock him into not
smoking it... ..didn;t work... and i instantly regretted my actions.....:sick:😨😰.

i do not smoke.... but like i said - tobacco smoke itself does not bother me.... i was born
to a chain smoker and spent the first 10 years of my life in a smoke filled house... or else
being dragged into smoke filled night clubs where my mom worked.... ..it;s a wonder i
wasn;t born with a cigarette in my mouth... 🚬


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Dad was a chain smoker, unfiltered Lucky Strikes. I didn’t think twice about smoke back then, but can’t stand it now.

As far as the “since deleted” post, I was just walking down memory lane for a second, and remembered how cringy and crazy TRB was, lol. But he really could stir this place up, especially the Freebirds😁
 
My mother's mom was a chain smoker. Had stacks of cartons in the back bedroom. Never saw her without a cigarette in her mouth. In the early 90s she had throat cancer, had to have a laryngectomy. She died shortly thereafter.

But...smoking doesn't bother me either, and as far as vices go, I mean...c'mon.
 
Ekklesian said:
My mother's mom was a chain smoker. Had stacks of cartons in the back bedroom. Never saw her without a cigarette in her mouth. In the early 90s she had throat cancer, had to have a laryngectomy. She died shortly thereafter.

But...smoking doesn't bother me either, and as far as vices go, I mean...c'mon.
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it;s hazardous to health - no doubt about it... ...... but it never belonged in the same category as the things scripture calls "abominable sins".... i believe fundamentalist preachers made a huge error putting it there.... of course they made errors declaring a lot of things abomination that were not.... .all it accomplished was to weaken their credibility on the things that really are abominations..... especially when some of them fell into those abominable sins scripture mentions, then tried to tell their congregations what they had done was no worse than smoking.... :rolleyes:

.... .there was a converstion on the old fff many years ago where defenders of hyles were trying to say his sins were equal to smoking cigarettes and if anyone talking about him had ever smoked themselves then they had no room to criticize..... ...i can;t remember the way the conversations actually went but i do remember it was a very sick and disgusting thread....
 
aleshanee said:
it;s hazardous to health - no doubt about it... ...... but it never belonged in the same category as the things scripture calls "abominable sins".... i believe fundamentalist preachers made a huge error putting it there.... of course they made errors declaring a lot of things abomination that were not.... .all it accomplished was to weaken their credibility on the things that really are abominations..... especially when some of them fell into those abominable sins scripture mentions, then tried to tell their congregations what they had done was no worse than smoking.... :rolleyes:

.... .there was a converstion on the old fff many years ago where defenders of hyles were trying to say his sins were equal to smoking cigarettes and if anyone talking about him had ever smoked themselves then they had no room to criticize..... ...i can;t remember the way the conversations actually went but i do remember it was a very sick and disgusting thread....
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I sort of recall that thread. Defenders of Hyles equated anything and everything to the "abomination" category. Sad.
 
I wouldn"t know if smoking is a "sin" but I SURE CAN'T STAND IT!

I Never have. Inconsistently though, I like the smell of pipe smoke.

My mother was a DIGNIFIED lady. She could have trained Princess Catherine and Princess Diana in how to dress. She was a QUEEN of a lady, with her hair always done and her fingernails always painted.

And yet,

She liked an occasional cigarette. Go figure.

I remember one time, we were going to visit my cousins and I was driving. She promised me she wouldn't smoke in the car. But, she "decided" to sit in the back seat.

We'd been on the road a few hours when I could have sworn I smelled smoke. I looked in the rearview mirrow and Mema was no where to be found. But I DID see a humped up blanket with smoke rings coming out of it. Ha ha. I've never forgotten that.

There are GOOD people that smoke and there are BAD people that don't. JUST AS there are good people that eat too much sugar and there are some bad people that don't.

But in my humble little opinion, it IS a bad habit.
 
Gringo said:
I wouldn"t know if smoking is a "sin" but I SURE CAN'T STAND IT!

I Never have. Inconsistently though, I like the smell of pipe smoke.

My mother was a DIGNIFIED lady. She could have trained Princess Catherine and Princess Diana in how to dress. She was a QUEEN of a lady, with her hair always done and her fingernails always painted.

And yet,

She liked an occasional cigarette. Go figure.

I remember one time, we were going to visit my cousins and I was driving. She promised me she wouldn't smoke in the car. But, she "decided" to sit in the back seat.

We'd been on the road a few hours when I could have sworn I smelled smoke. I looked in the rearview mirrow and Mema was no where to be found. But I DID see a humped up blanket with smoke rings coming out of it. Ha ha. I've never forgotten that.

There are GOOD people that smoke and there are BAD people that don't. JUST AS there are good people that eat too much sugar and there are some bad people that don't.

But in my humble little opinion, it IS a bad habit.
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A radio preacher once said, "Just because you smoke doesn't mean you're going to hell. It will make you smell like you have been there, though."
 
Gringo said:
I wouldn"t know if smoking is a "sin" but I SURE CAN'T STAND IT!

I Never have. Inconsistently though, I like the smell of pipe smoke.

My mother was a DIGNIFIED lady. She could have trained Princess Catherine and Princess Diana in how to dress. She was a QUEEN of a lady, with her hair always done and her fingernails always painted.

And yet,

She liked an occasional cigarette. Go figure.

I remember one time, we were going to visit my cousins and I was driving. She promised me she wouldn't smoke in the car. But, she "decided" to sit in the back seat.

We'd been on the road a few hours when I could have sworn I smelled smoke. I looked in the rearview mirrow and Mema was no where to be found. But I DID see a humped up blanket with smoke rings coming out of it. Ha ha. I've never forgotten that.

There are GOOD people that smoke and there are BAD people that don't. JUST AS there are good people that eat too much sugar and there are some bad people that don't.

But in my humble little opinion, it IS a bad habit.
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I'm so glad that I quit on March 20, 2000. Now, I'm not going to tell you that there's not been a time or two I wish I could have lit up a ciggie! But, I promised when i quit I was never going to start again. Both of my dads were lifelong smokers. The dad who adopted me died on just quit last December after smoking for 74 years. He started when he was 8 years old. He's dying from stage 4 emphysema. I've saved a whole lot of money by not smoking and was able to do things that some of my friends and family who smoked couldn't do.
 
Gringo said:
I wouldn"t know if smoking is a "sin" but I SURE CAN'T STAND IT!

I Never have. Inconsistently though, I like the smell of pipe smoke.

My mother was a DIGNIFIED lady. She could have trained Princess Catherine and Princess Diana in how to dress. She was a QUEEN of a lady, with her hair always done and her fingernails always painted.

And yet,

She liked an occasional cigarette. Go figure.

I remember one time, we were going to visit my cousins and I was driving. She promised me she wouldn't smoke in the car. But, she "decided" to sit in the back seat.

We'd been on the road a few hours when I could have sworn I smelled smoke. I looked in the rearview mirrow and Mema was no where to be found. But I DID see a humped up blanket with smoke rings coming out of it. Ha ha. I've never forgotten that.

There are GOOD people that smoke and there are BAD people that don't. JUST AS there are good people that eat too much sugar and there are some bad people that don't.

But in my humble little opinion, it IS a bad habit.
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some of the retired divers that go down to the barge when it;s in port - sit around with each other talking and smoking cigars like to blow smoke rings.... .. i go down there when my dad goes coz i usually pick up extra money cleaning and reprepping the decompression chamber if they used it on the job.... .

the troubling thing to me is on a few occasions i have actually found cigarette butts in there.... .....the first time i reported what i found to the barge captain and he told me that some of the divers liked to temp fate like that and light up a cigarette when the chamber was pressurized and nobody on the outside could do anything about it...... ....he said a few of them thought it was funny to set fire to flatulence in the pressurized hyper-oxygenated environment.. (but he worded it a little differently than i did).... ... he said a previous captain had threatened to fire divers for it in the past... but couldn;t because the ones doing it were the best most experienced divers they had .... .....
 
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aleshanee said:
some of the retired divers that go down to the barge when it;s in port - sit around with each other talking and smoking cigars like to blow smoke rings.... .. i go down there when my dad goes coz i usually pick up extra money cleaning and reprepping the decompression chamber if they used it on the job.... .

the troubling thing to me is on a few occasions i have actually found cigarette butts in there.... .....the first time i reported what i found to the barge captain and he told me that some of the divers liked to temp fate like that and light up a cigarette when the chamber was pressurized and nobody on the outside could do anything about it...... ....he said a few of them thought it was funny to set fire to flatulence in the pressurized hyper-oxygenated environment.. (but he worded it a little differently than i did).... ... he said a previous captain had threatened to fire divers for it in the past... but couldn;t because the ones doing it were the best most experienced divers they had .... .....
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Cigar smoke gives me a literal headache, Aleshanee. I don't know if those men on that boat were stupid or awfully brave!
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I never liked cigarettes (thankfully), but I used to enjoy a rare cigar back in the day. On some years for my birthday, we’d drive south to an area of Tampa called Ybor City and go to a cigar bar. They specialized in expensive coffee and, of course, cigars. It’s probably been over a decade since I’ve burned one.
 
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