78th smoke-free day! (the great Tiki central mass stop-smoking thread) - Bilge

J JenTiki Grand Member (1 year) Home of the best rum collection in NC Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Posts: 2336	J JenTiki Posted posted on 06/14/2009 On 2009-06-14 08:27, telescopes wrote: When people quit smoking cigarettes, I am always willing to offer my kudos. However, I am a life-long pipe and cigar smoker. I smoke a few times a month and enjoy the hell out of it. My problem is that society looks at the cigar and pipe the same way they do cigarettes - like shooting up H. LIke Bill Clinton, as a general rule, pipe and cigar smokers don't inhale. Unlike cigarettes, walking away from pipes and cigars is easy. No shakes, no mental agony. Nada. But pipes and cigars will give you lung cancer, just like cigarettes do. My father was a pipe and cigar smoker into his mid-40s, but never once picked up a cigarette. He died at an early 67 from esophageal cancer that spread to his lungs, 20 years after he quit! Tobacco is tobacco and and it doesn't have to get deep into the recesses of your lungs to kill you. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy to go through what my father went through in the last two months of his life! It's not a pretty way to die and I guess I'll never understand why people are willing to continue smoking knowing what they're going to go through, and what they're going to put their loved ones through.

On 2009-06-14 08:27, telescopes wrote:
When people quit smoking cigarettes, I am always willing to offer my kudos.

However, I am a life-long pipe and cigar smoker. I smoke a few times a month and enjoy the hell out of it. My problem is that society looks at the cigar and pipe the same way they do cigarettes - like shooting up H.

LIke Bill Clinton, as a general rule, pipe and cigar smokers don't inhale. Unlike cigarettes, walking away from pipes and cigars is easy. No shakes, no mental agony. Nada.

But pipes and cigars will give you lung cancer, just like cigarettes do. My father was a pipe and cigar smoker into his mid-40s, but never once picked up a cigarette. He died at an early 67 from esophageal cancer that spread to his lungs, 20 years after he quit! Tobacco is tobacco and and it doesn't have to get deep into the recesses of your lungs to kill you. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy to go through what my father went through in the last two months of his life! It's not a pretty way to die and I guess I'll never understand why people are willing to continue smoking knowing what they're going to go through, and what they're going to put their loved ones through.

Post #461631 by JenTiki on 06/14/2009