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It is known to be highly carcinogenic.
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That sounds pretty cool
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I love the smell of cigarette smoke.
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Yaridovich posted...

I love the smell of cigarette smoke.

I do too tbh, but it isnt worth getting cancer.
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Makes you look badass
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It makes you look cool.

You get drunk, and think "well one won't hurt, I won't get addicted just from one. Always wondered what it was like". Then you don't smoke again until next time you're offered one when you're drunk, with the rationale of "well I did it last time and it wasn't bad, and it was so long ago. Only those pack a day smokers get it bad".

Then you become that guy that's cool because you smoke, but only when you drink. And you can still not smoke when you're sober.

But then you have a bad day, so you bum a cig from your friend while you're sober. Your first sober cig. And you realize you don't really like it. So then you think "yeah, fuck smoking, shits nasty".

But then you go to college and you become friends with a girl and you find out she smokes. You don't want to look like a square in front of her so you accept her offer of a cigarette because you're trying to play it cool in the hopes you'll impress her enough to do the horizontal boogie with her in the near future. You even go so far to buy your own first pack.

She ends up not banging you, and kind of distances herself from you when she turns you down for a date. So you're depressed, and well you bought a whole pack so it'd be a shamed to waste them right?

And then you just have a nightly cigarette. Then it comes up to two cigs a day. And then boom. It keeps adding up variably depending on how your day goes and how busy you are. And eventually you're hooked.
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Yaridovich posted...

I love the smell of cigarette smoke.

I smoke cigarettes and I absolutely hate the smell.


I started when I was 18 and I don't remember why but I wish I hadn't. Have tried to quit so many times, and I just get really angry for a couple days and than give up.
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Literally blasting a cig as I read this
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DoomtheGrav posted...

Literally blasting a cig as I read this

lol im hitting a bowl
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People are idiots.
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@DoomtheGrav

I've never heard that term before in relation to smoking a cig. Where are you from?
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WaterLink posted...

You get drunk, and think "well one won't hurt, I won't get addicted just from one. Always wondered what it was like". Then you don't smoke again until next time you're offered one when you're drunk, with the rationale of "well I did it last time and it wasn't bad, and it was so long ago. Only those pack a day smokers get it bad".

Then you become that guy that's cool because you smoke, but only when you drink. And you can still not smoke when you're sober.

But then you have a bad day, so you bum a cig from your friend while you're sober. Your first sober cig. And you realize you don't really like it. So then you think "yeah, fuck smoking, shits nasty".

But then you go to college and you become friends with a girl and you find out she smokes. You don't want to look like a square in front of her so you accept her offer of a cigarette because you're trying to play it cool in the hopes you'll impress her enough to do the horizontal boogie with her in the near future. You even go so far to buy your own first pack.

She ends up not banging you, and kind of distances herself from you when she turns you down for a date. So you're depressed, and well you bought a whole pack so it'd be a shamed to waste them right?

And then you just have a nightly cigarette. Then it comes up to two cigs a day. And then boom. It keeps adding up variably depending on how your day goes and how busy you are. And eventually you're hooked.

This is an example. There are many others, I'm sure, but the main takeaway is that it usually starts out rather innocuous and ends with someone smoking several packs each week (or even a pack a day) within a few years.
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yeah I just started smoking when I was a kid because I thought it looked cool

nothing more than that, peer pressure etc.
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The unfortunate truth is younger people think it makes you look cool so they want to try it...they try it...they get addicted...

I smoked because one of my previous job was extremely stressful.

Happy to say that I no longer work there and no longer smoke.
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