Originally posted by JaxonRoberts

Originally posted by MysticPearl
I'm calling you out OP! Prove to all of us how healthy you are, and how much you exercise. Or are you a lazy, overweight #, who sits on his butt all day finding someone else to criticize?

I never said I was healthy. My lungs are shot between the second hand smoke I inhaled as a kid from my two pack a day parent, plus an older sister with a similar habit, and the 26 years of smoking I did myself. Although my sense of smell and taste have improved, I am still very susceptible to nasal, lung and brochial infections. I cannot remember a time before the age of ten when I did not have some type of respiratory infection, due to the damage being done to my lungs by the smoke filled environment I was in.

What inspired me to write this thread was that I saw a pregnant woman today who was pushing a two year old in a stroller with a cigarette in her hand that was less than a foot away from the toddlers head. So go ahead... Someone justify this to me as the sign of a good parent... Good Luck on that, by the way... It can't be done...

haha thats not a sign of bad parenting. I assume this buggy wasnt in a small box or tiny confined space right? I also assume she wasnt delibratly blowing smoke in the babies face?
With your logic anyone allowing their child outside a chemical free environment is a bad parent.

I know people that have bad chests....have never smoked in their lives and neither have their parents.
Equally....i have no problems and ive grown up in pretty much the same enviroment as yourself....bad genetics dude thats all

Here, here!


(For Redneck)

First sign of addiction:

DENIAL!!!

It ain't just a river in Egypt!

Originally posted by JaxonRoberts
First sign of addiction:

DENIAL!!!

It ain't just a river in Egypt!

Exactly, and you are denying a deep seated grudge against your parents because you blame their smoking for your poor health..

I am 36 going on 37.
I started smoking when I was 15 or 16 this grew into a 20-30 a day habit. I never smoked indoors anywhere.
Since I was 19 I have lived and worked in areas where a pack of 20 Mal-bros didn't cost me over 3 dollars US the reason I mention this is to emphasize that the cost wasn't significant for me.
I have two kids, 6 and 3.

I liked smoking but I quit a year ago. I decided to quit for them and myself in that order. It is no mean feat, in fact its the toughest thing I've ever done. I still miss it. If your a proper smoker then you'll understand, if you never smoked or only smoke occasionally then you'll never get it. I had no health problems and still don't, I decided it was just my time to quit. The biggest guilt I have is that I used my daughter as a tool to quit forever. I promised my daughter on her 5th Birthday that I wouldn't ever smoke again I haven't and I won't. The guilt or shame is in the conundrum I had to generate for myself to get what I wanted. Am I happy with the result? Hell yes. My method was a little under hand but one things for sure, I will not break that promise I made ever.

Now on to the reformed smoker and ex-smokers; you guys are by far the worst preachers not only that you still "want" to smoke your just lucky enough to have chosen not to.

Please do this for your friends and smokers. Shut the hell up. Your all hypocrites.

There is not one adult smoker on this earth that doesn't know that smoking is bad for you, no really we knew already before you lot made our ears bleed with your constant spiels. As a matter of fact, my own wife used to nag and complain about my smoking for years and years literally, I smoked longer because of it, I was adamant that I'd quit when I was good and ready. Not when she said. Maybe stubborn, maybe childish I know. I'm not proud of it but that's just how we are as smokers, I don't know if its just the cigarettes or what but smokers are a different breed of human. I didn't quit until she was away for two weeks on family business. That's when I struck up my deal with my daughter.

So smokers please try and quit when your moment comes. Even use your kids to achieve your goal. Non smokers please don't start. And finally to my ex-smoker friends... Shut it. They know already.

As a smoker, I absolutely agree.

All these past millennia, I am stunned that the constantly smoking fires in caves, tent, teepees, stone huts, log cabins etc., even allowed any population growth.

Smoke. Second-hand smoke. How in Hades did anyone ever live to reach puberty?

I agree.

Much better to chew tobacco, and show the kids how to spit.

Or drink. Or chase around. Those factors are real healthy home builders.

And gasoline. That creates tons of crap our kids breath, so if you're worth a damn as a parent, you'll never own a car, much less get the kids out on a highway so that they will be breathing in all those fuel fumes, carbon monoxide, hundreds of toxic hydrocarbon molecules, and that doesn't even count the risk of getting out on a highway.

Yep. Smokers are toxic.

Is the OP starring his own posts?? I cant work out why some of them have stars....and for the life of me i cant get why people are flagging this.