Holy smoking cigs batman!
...seeing as my smoking post inspired a whole whirlwind, I may as well repost clarifying my thoughts as to why I call myself a smoker.
1) I am aware that as I become more and more tolerant, I will smoke more.
2) I've been a clear second-hand smoker for some time now. My whole life, actually. My grandparents, parents, friends, significant others.
3) The most important reason I consider myself a smoker is because I am definately not a non-smoker. What do you call a half smoker? A social smoker? That sounds lame. I make the deliberate choice to spend part of my income on a vice of my choice. I understand the health implications and chose this anyway. As for having the paraphenalia on me most of the time, I always had a lighter. (I didn't smoker but I could *clink clink* take care of the ladies that did). My purse, backpack, pocket will likely have a cigarette in it whether I smoke it that night or not.
4) I enjoy the act of smoking. I do not cough or feel uncomfortable while smoking. I can inhale it easily and pleasurably.
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Comments
okay
You are a smoker. With a dropped casual/social modifier. File that under "l" for lame or "f" for factual. But only by virtue of frequency and quantity.
By sociological standards, you've already manifested secondary attributes, have adopted a smoking career, so to speak.
It really doesn't matter.
I'm going to shut up now.
~Jules
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Historian of The Movement To Free Oompa Loompa Land From The Tyrannical Rule Of The Evil Capitalistic Despot Willy Wonka And Associates
second hand
I prefer to second hand smoke, its cheaper. may not be as effient, but it is cheaper. and requires less effort.
JB
Vice President and Drug Tsar of The Movement To Free Ommpa loompa Land From The Tyrannical Rule Of The Evil Capitalsitic Despot Willy Wonka And Associates
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Yay for smoking!
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