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How many of you smoke or did at one time? I can honestly say I’ve never had one in my mouth.
How many of you dip or chew
There were 10 guys on the first lease I was on, all but me were smokers. There is ten on the lease I’m on now, no smokers at all. There is 12 plumbers where I work, none of them smoke, 30 years ago it was all but two of us. I think the smoking percentage has gone down.
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In 1984 when I started work as a firefighter we used to clean ashtrays as housework. Smoke anyplace. Now it’s forbidden on the premises and newer employees are forbidden from using all tobacco products while employed. Smoke the occasional cigar.
Last edited by Mike_S; 08/31/19.
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I quit over 30 years ago.
The Karma bus always has an empty seat when it comes around.- High Brass
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
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Campfire Outfitter
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I smoked for about ten years. Quit in 1977. Haven't missed it at all.
L.W.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)
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Campfire Oracle
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"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I quit cigarettes in about 1993 and the only cigar I smoked after that was a good Cuban as we were leaving the Middle East on my last deployment in 1997. No dip or cud. Happy Trails
Life Member NRA, RMEF, American Legion, MAGA. Not necessarily in that order.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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been about 24 yrs since i quit a 2-3 pack a day habit. do smoke a cigar once in a while.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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My father was a smoker. Burned counter tops, dirty ashtrays, butts in the car. Based on that, I never ever had the urge or inclination. If someone smokes in their home or car that's their business.
For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: "If a man will not work, he shall not eat."
2 Thessalonians 3:10
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I quit almost 30 years ago. I smoked 3 packs of Camel straights a day, more when I was drinking. I don't do either anymore.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Started smoking in high school. Quit about 30 years ago. No issues to date. Never was really addicted. Just put down a pack, never went back.
Sam......
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Campfire 'Bwana
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dipped Copenhagen from 13 till my twenty's also.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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Campfire Ranger
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I quit 30 years ago . Was a heavy smoker starting at age 15, smoked from 1955 till 1989. Knock on wood, no cancer yet.
When I was in high school, you had to smoke to be "cool", so I did. Wish someone would have kicked my ass every time I lit up so I wouldn't do it any more. I see some kid walking down the street now puffing away, makes me want to go poke him in the nose for being stupid.
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My father was a smoker. Burned counter tops, dirty ashtrays, butts in the car. Based on that, I never ever had the urge or inclination. If someone smokes in their home or car that's their business. +1 My dad smoked from his early teens until 40 and quit cold turkey. Cigars were the only tobacco product he touched and he had pretty good taste as far as that goes.
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Smoked for about 20 years and quit about 25 years ago. My three brothers also smoked. Two quit like me the other didn’t and died from bladder cancer. By the way that’s the most common cancer from cigarettes. Every once in a while I still get a short burst of wanting one. Ed k
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I quit 30 years ago . Was a heavy smoker starting at age 15, smoked from 1955 till 1989. Knock on wood, no cancer yet.
When I was in high school, you had to smoke to be "cool", so I did. Wish someone would have kicked my ass every time I lit up so I wouldn't do it any more. I see some kid walking down the street now puffing away, makes me want to go poke him in the nose for being stupid. Now you have teenage kids vaping who never smoked a cigarette.
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I quit a 2 pack a day habit on December 8, 2013.
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Quit about 35 years ago althoughI never smoked even a pack a day.
Wife's sister and the BIL have smoked all their lives and now one has throat cancer and the other has tounge cancer.
Let's Go Brandon! FJB
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Campfire Regular
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I smoke a pack every 2 or 3 days. I took Chantix about 6 years ago and it actually worked. Was able to stay off for a little over a year but I was always irritable and sleep quality was awful. Here I am again. I don't drink alcohol but really enjoy tobacco with my coffee in the mornings especially. Terrible habit.
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Campfire Regular
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I quit in 2002 after thirty years of smoking off and on. Mostly on. Can't imagine smoking again and haven't had any desire to smoke since shortly after quitting. If I drank like I did at twenty-five and smoked like I did at forty-five I wouldn't be here at sixty-five.
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