|
|  |
Poll Comments
|
Do you smoke? [240 votes total]
|
|
No, I have never smoked (161) |
 67% | |
No, but I used to (66) |
 28% | |
Yes (13) |
 5% |
|
Posted By: Perelandra
Posted On: 10 hr, 29 min. ago
Views: 17
| Well...
Well, Shar, somebody already has already marketed a poster that says
that. But turning it into a T-shirt wouldn't be that hard...just have
to ask permission and pay royalties from sales.
| Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 13 hr, 23 min. ago
Views: 27
| Do you smoke?
Pere, I love it. You should market it.
| Posted By: Perelandra
Posted On: 13 hr, 51 min. ago
Views: 32
| Non-smoking
I have smoked only once in my life. I was a li'l squirt, and Mom had
just stubbed out a cigarette butt into the ashtray. I picked it up and
(without lighting it) took an experimental drag...BLEAH!!! After that,
I had to wonder why Mom and Dad did that, because it tasted so nasty!
Same thing with chewing tobacco. A friend had some, offered me a quid,
told me it tasted good...I popped it into my mouth, expecting something
tasty, and AAACK! PTOOEY! I spat that junk right out. It was like lawn
clippings dipped in Karo syrup...not in the least appetizing!
Now, having said that, I have spent a lot of time around smokers, and so
I have probably breathed more second-hand smoke than I'd want to know
about. And unfortunately, I think that many smokers these days are just
flat rude; not only will they sit right down next to you and light up
without asking if you mind, but they will also throw their leavings
anywhere but where they ought to. Our store, along with many others,
provides a special receptacle for cigarette butts, but often they get
thrown off into the parking lot (still lit up!) instead. And people
often throw lit butts out the windows of their cars, too! When the
weather gets hot and dry in the summer, that can be a fire hazard!
I would like to have a special no-smoking kit. It would consist of a
small Super Soaker kept full of water, a small bundle of paper towels,
and a T-shirt that reads, "WARNING: If you smoke around me, I will
conclude that you are on fire, and will take appropriate measures." Any
miscreants would have their ciggies extinguished and their faces
promptly dried off afterward.
| Posted By: Jake
Posted On: 1 day ago
Views: 72
| Blowin' Smoke
I think it is much easier for people younger than my age bracket to not
smoke that it was for people in my age bracket. "back then" when I was
in the service, you were actually "pressured" to smoke. For example,
even our rations packages contained those little three cigarette packs.
During basic training, a break was announced as, "Smoke 'em if ya' got
'em .... all you others, police up the area." I never smoked before I
enlisted and managed to hold out until about a year before my hitch was
up. I was considered to be "odd" for not smoking. I guess I was "odd" in
other ways, too, because, although I was not "a jock", I ran more than
five miles every day (usually seven) .... all through high school and
until I left active duty. I also was a pretty decent distance and depth
swimmer and martial arts type, and knew smoking would hinder my
performance. Now days, everyone knows, from birth, that smoking is a bad
idea.
| Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 1 day ago
Views: 78
| Do you smoke?
What's encouraging to me about this post is the number of people that
have never smoked, as well as the number who have quit. I'm surprised
to see that there are actually very few who are still smoking. Somehow
the laws and education must be working. I know here in Florida who can
hardly smoke anywhere outside of your home. No restaurants, bars,
public buildings, etc. I worked with several women who were very upset
when our workplace went smoke-free but who eventually kicked the habit.
| Posted By: Jake
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 118
| Hooray For All Daughters
Yeah, hooray for all daughters .... except for some the times when they
grow up and .....
Actually I tend to look at that little "mid life course correction" as
proof positive that the kid had some good upbringing.
Now, does anyone else out there have a sows ear that they want made into
a silk purse?
| Posted By: Dan
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 134
| smokeing
Good Point Don the norski!!
| Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 151
| Do you smoke?
I smoked from the time I was in high school (hey, it was the cool thing
to do) until 20+ years ago. Youngest daughter begged me to quit
smoking, and although I told her I had, I was still sneaking a smoke or
two on occasion. One day she walked into my office and caught me. Can
you imagine how heart broken she was knowing that her mother had lied to
her, and can you imagine how heart broken I was having lied to my
daughter?
With the help of a lot of prayer partners, and remembering, like you,
Don, that my body was a temple of the Lord, I was finally able to quit a
terrible habit. And getting a whiff of cigarette smoke only makes me
sick. But it truly is every bit as addictive, for some people, as any
other drug.
Hooray for your daugher, Jake.
| Posted By: Don the Norski
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 157
| Smokes
Dan, this is a perfectly legitimate topic for this site. You, perhaps,
haven't been addicted, or maybe none of your family has, either. If
that's the case, count yourself as being blessed! Smoking is something
that touches nearly every family, even Lutherans. Fortunately, it is
nowhere near as prevalent as it once was.
Jake, good for your daughter. I'd say she helped you to realize your
true identity, wouldn't you? Yeah... I know whatcha mean on that
occasional scent, but 99.94% of the time, now, when I smell one, it
simply makes me want to wretch!
| Posted By: Jake
Posted On: 2 days ago
Views: 171
| How I Quit
Don, my quitting was an "enforced" thing. one time, long ago, after our
every week Sunday dinner together was finished and the mess had been
cleaned up, I was sitting in my recliner in the living room when my
daughter and son-in-law approached from the kitchen and told me I was
going to become a GP. (Everybody else had been informed of the good
news.) I jumped up, danced around the living room whooping it up and
she, "dear daughter", took me by the shoulders and forcibly sat me back
down into the recliner, and with her hands still on my shoulders, put
her nose about an inch from my nose, and told me (in a really great
representation of her drill sargeants Dad's voice) .... "You're not
going to hold this baby .... this baby is never going to be around you
.... you're never even going to see this kid .... as long as you're
smoking those %$#%^ things. Whew! (Can you imagine my kid talking to me
like that?) Things got real quiet, real quick. I got up, went to the
kitchen, tossed the pack I had in my shirt pocket into the wastebasket,
and did the same with the "supply" in the cupboard. I never smoked
again. #1GD will be getting her drivers license in a couple of months.
But, unlike your "salvation", mine is still (periodically) fraught with
an intense urge to smoke, but that just ain't gonna' happen. Before I
received my "anti-smoking medicine" from D#1, I tried everything under
the sun to quit, but I was really addicted. Now, I'm nearly an
anti-smoke saint, but sometimes when I get a wiff of a cicarette, I feel
either sickly or attracted.
| Posted By: DAN
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 213
| topic
We do need to get Topics on Being Christian or our Lutheran Faith.
This is Lutherans on line a christian web page after all
| Posted By: DAN
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 214
| SMOKER
Never have never will ! Speaking of smoking My wife does not smoke but
she is smoking
| Posted By: Don the Norski
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 217
| Smoking
I smoked for 25 years.
The, I realized my identity was that of a non-smoker. So, I accepted
that. That was about 14 years ago in the Mt. Angel Oktoberfest
beirgarten of all places!
Trying to "quit" did no good at all. "Quitting" has such a bad
connotation to it: you're giving up something, you're making a
sacrifice, you're being deprived. All negative.
I realized who, and whose, I really was. Once that happened, I have
breezed through life as a non-smoker, and yes... I *DO* dislike the
stink immensely and I *DO* wonder why anyone now, after all this time,
research, education, and... have you noticed the cost?... could
possibly continue to smoke!
Somehow, the stinking clothes, bad breath, empty pocket, brown fingers,
holey shirts, burnt upholstery, etc, didn't match with the son, brother,
child of God, father, singer, etc, that I already accepted as being
"ME".
| Posted By: Shar
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 225
| Do you smoke?
Or how long ago a person quit.
| Posted By: Jake
Posted On: 3 days ago
Views: 271
| Age Is A Factor
It would have been neat if there could have been ages (perhaps in 5 or10
year increments) associated with survey.
|
Current Poll:
How often do you wear a seat belt?
Previous Poll Results:
|