Does smoking turn you off?

When you see someone smoking does it turn you off?

If I see someone smoking near me I normally walk away or ask them do they mind if you don't blow the smoke towards me.

Cigs do but i vape and smoke weed so

Yes and I don't smoke. Never have done and couldn't if I wanted to due to lung disease.

MamaFrankie said:

Yes and I don't smoke. Never have done and couldn't if I wanted to due to lung disease.

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Not sure what people get out of smoking, the smell is horrible.

It is indeed.

Yep... don't smoke, never will.

Rey619 said:

Cigs do but i vape and smoke weed so

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I smoke weed and cigarettes, but I don’t smoke weed all the time.

I have never smoked and smoking does not bother me in the least. I'm a "live and let live" person.

It's not seeing someone smoking that turns me off, it's smelling the smoke. It's been a long time since that happened though. Smoking is not allowed in restaurants or most public places here.

Smithy said:

When you see someone smoking does it turn you off?

If I see someone smoking near me I normally walk away or ask them do they mind if you don't blow the smoke towards me.

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Smithy said:

Not sure what people get out of smoking, the smell is horrible.

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Nicotine.
Most people in America quit smoking, and started eating, which actually causes more health problems than cig.s.
Both are dangerous to your health and real bad habits, I'll smoke to that.

My wife had a girlfriend, deceased now, that she graduated high school with, that smoked cigs. We didn't see her and her husband much, but we tolerated her smoking when we did see her. One time, she was riding in our vehicle and was going to light up a cigarette and I, very politely, told her "please don't smoke in our vehicle" and she didn't. After she put the cigarette/lighter away, I said "thank you!".

With so many places not allowing smoking anymore, except casinos, we don't have to worry about being around smokers. And, in casinos, the A/C is on so high in the summer, the smell of cigarettes is extremely low.

Years upon years ago, I did smoke, but it was very, very easy for me to quit. I only smoked a pack and a half a week (7 days). IOW, I really wasn't a smoker at all, that is, compared to many people that do smoke. I basically started smoking in the Navy at sea during a middle-of-the-night watch.

I know a lady who is 89 years old and she's a heavy smoker and still alive..
Yet doctors say smoking is bad for you. :O

Smithy said:

I know a lady who is 89 years old and she's a heavy smoker and still alive..
Yet doctors say smoking is bad for you. :O

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Well, some very high profile actors and actresses were heavy smokers during their lives, as in:
George Burns who started smoking cigars at age 14 and died at age 100.
Dean Martin who was a lifelong heavy cigarette smoker and died of Emphysema. He was diagnosed with lung cancer and was told he would require surgery to prolong his life, but rejected the surgery.
John Wayne had been a lifelong chain smoker of Camel non-filters cigarettes.
Amanda Blake (Miss Kitty/Gunsmoke) and Chuck Connors (The Rifleman) were both heavy smokers.

John Wayne died from Cancer, and it may have had something to do with smoking. If it is true that "he smoked a cigarette every five minutes", that sounds pretty compelling to me. But it also may have been due to fallout from the Nevada Nuclear Bomb Testing near the Nevada National Security Sites. Or various other factors unrelated to either of those things, or a combination of them and who knows what else. Some things can be proven by science but not every study is accurate. So it all depends on who you talk to and what you believe. There are very compelling arguments on all sides of the issue.

I had cancer, and I smoked three packs of cigarettes a day for decades. Menthol at that. But on another note, I used to live in an areas of Arizona and Utah that are almost a strait line about 300 miles east of the Nevada National Security Sites. And I was homeless, living in the woods around Flagstaff for two years. I was told that I developed Valley Fever (Coccidioidomycosis) from sleeping on the ground. But was it really that or something else?

Follow a line strait east from the Nevada National Security Sites along the Arizona / Utah state line on the map below, then follow that dark purple line from the Nevada National Security Sites to my home of 27 years, perhaps 400 miles "as the crow flies" to Humboldt County, California. I also used to live in Nevada in Las Vegas, Stateline (Lake Tahoe) and Reno for 30 weeks at a time for 7 years.



Regardless of who you talk to and what their opinions on this are, there is little scientific evidence to prove anything. Or if there is, it may be "Classified", so who knows...

I do wish I'd quit when I was young.