Smoking

[El Kabong]

...guys, a cigar every so often is a treat.

So long as you are 100% on your own at the time or with other smokers.

There's a nice smoke shop where I live and they sell cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco, beer, wine, and they allow their customers to smoke in their shop. Nice leather chairs, flat screen tv...its all very nice and relaxing.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I quite like my lungs without cancer and tar.

[Youngblood]

I quite like my lungs

how bout you get em out and let us judge that.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I quite like my lungs

how bout you get em out and let us judge that.

bob hope and no hope. And Bob's dead.

[El Kabong]

I tried dip it was awful, I played baseball when I tried it...got a hell of a buzz. I think boxers and mma fighters do it to suppress appetite and help aid them in making weight (the spitting helps a little).

I never have gotten addicted to cigarettes but I see how I could have, the gadgets and gizmos from the 20's through the 50's were quite nifty. For example I have one of my Grandfather's cigarette cases that is also a lighter...mighty classy.

Cigars are just right for me, every so often I'll have one and I've finally found some places to smoke them (away from my house). 1 place is a cigar bar, the other a smoke shop that sells tobacco, pipes, and also beer and wine.

I don't own a pipe and have never used one for tobacco, though I may invest in one yet. I've got a hand woven box from Botswana in which I keep pipe tobacco to make my house smell good...it would be nice the next time I bought some if it served its true purpose as well.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

quite like a little smell of cigar/pipe smoke, not cigs though.

[VictorCharlie]

I've avoided any addiction to Copenhagen. I enjoy it for certain activities but I also go weeks at a time w/o using it. I probably smoke 10 cigarettes a year. Smoking pretty much coincides with the handful of times I go to a bar.

[Nameless]

Never have, never will, no matter of how it smells good sometimes (for some produces), I never liked the idea of my lungs/mouth filled with smoke.

[El Kabong]

Never have, never will, no matter of how it smells good sometimes (for some produces), I never liked the idea of my lungs/mouth filled with smoke.

You should have heard the guy at the cigar store tell me about their cigars...there is a big similarity between tasting cigars and tasting wine.

[El Kabong]

Dude, next time you're in NC let me know I'll take you to a tobacco store and set you up for cheap. I think its what $3-$5 a pack in NC depending on what you smoke and the tobacco stores sell cartons for discount.

I don't do cigarettes, I never have liked them. My Granddad did, but that was the style then. He died of lung cancer at age 37...unfiltered Camels man. And my Great Granddad (my Granddad's father) lived to be 99 and he didn't smoke.

I don't smoke all the time, but every once in a while I'll have a cigar, once every other month or so. I've had 2 this year which is probably more than I had all of 2010.

[Master]

I tried mint cigarettes they were horrible.

[Ghost]

Centenarians may have a great deal of wisdom to share, but this apparently does not include advice on how to live to age 100.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people — age 95 and older — could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise.
The very old are, in fact, no more virtuous than the general population when it comes to shunning bad health habits, leaving researchers to conclude that their genes are mostly responsible for their remarkable longevity.
But before you fall off the wagon and start tossing down doughnuts for breakfast just because your Aunt Edna just turned 102, remember that genetics is a game of chance. What didn't kill Aunt Edna still could kill you prematurely, the researchers cautioned.
The chosen few
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112. They were enrolled in Einstein College's Longevity Genes Project, an ongoing study that seeks to understand why centenarians live as long as they do. About 1 in 4,400 Americans lives to age 100, according to 2010 census data.
A research team led by Nir Barzilai compared these old folks with a group of people representing the general public, captured in a snapshot of health habits collected in the 1970s. The people in this control group were born around the same time as the 95-and-above study group, but they have since died.
The living, old people in the study were remarkably ordinary in their lifestyles, Barzilai said. By and large, they weren't vegetarians, vitamin-pill-poppers or health freaks. Their profiles nearly matched that of the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, at age 107, smoked for over 90 years.




100-Year-Olds Just as Unhealthy as the Rest of Us - Yahoo! News

[generalbulldog]

Centenarians may have a great deal of wisdom to share, but this apparently does not include advice on how to live to age 100.
Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that many very old people — age 95 and older — could be poster children for bad health behavior with their smoking, drinking, poor diet, obesity and lack of exercise.
The very old are, in fact, no more virtuous than the general population when it comes to shunning bad health habits, leaving researchers to conclude that their genes are mostly responsible for their remarkable longevity.
But before you fall off the wagon and start tossing down doughnuts for breakfast just because your Aunt Edna just turned 102, remember that genetics is a game of chance. What didn't kill Aunt Edna still could kill you prematurely, the researchers cautioned.
The chosen few
The study, appearing Aug. 3 in the online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, followed the lives of 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112. They were enrolled in Einstein College's Longevity Genes Project, an ongoing study that seeks to understand why centenarians live as long as they do. About 1 in 4,400 Americans lives to age 100, according to 2010 census data.
A research team led by Nir Barzilai compared these old folks with a group of people representing the general public, captured in a snapshot of health habits collected in the 1970s. The people in this control group were born around the same time as the 95-and-above study group, but they have since died.
The living, old people in the study were remarkably ordinary in their lifestyles, Barzilai said. By and large, they weren't vegetarians, vitamin-pill-poppers or health freaks. Their profiles nearly matched that of the control group in terms of the percentage who were overweight, exercised (or didn't exercise), or smoked. One woman, at age 107, smoked for over 90 years.




100-Year-Olds Just as Unhealthy as the Rest of Us - Yahoo! News

Well if that 107 year old woman didn't smoke for over 90 years she may have lived to 140 and become the oldest living person ever.

*meh, rolls one up and lights cigarette*

[El Kabong]

You only live once, may as well have some fun.

[superheavyrhun]

You only live once, may as well have some fun.

Imagine saving all the money from 90 years of smoking. That is an absolute truckload of fun right there. Still, each to their own, I'm more down the suggested route of doughnuts for breakfast.