Any former smokers here? Back when, I used to like the non filters, no pockets on a t shirt, I could carry my Luckys in a front jean pocket, and not break off the filter.

I always heard real farmers worked sun-up to sunset.

Used to smoke but gave up about 28 years ago. Just the odd cigar now. Always had pockets - can't live without shirt pockets.

Never even tried a puff on a cigarette.

Yeah, not good for ya, but it was good while it lasted. Eventually kicked the habit to avoid health issues (before anything happened). No regrets for having smoked though.

!959 to 1980, you name it I smoked it, not dope.

Dried poop?

Quit in 1990 mostly smoked a pipe and cigars, cigarettes were occasional. I'm blessed with a wife who would raise Cain if I ever started again; that is good because the desire has never quite gone away.

Don't laugh too loud. I once bought a pack in Thailand, took only one puff.

I smoked from High School until I was 49, quit them 30 years ago. Cant stand to even get a tiny whiff of one now, nor do I like the smell of the inside of a car that's been smoked in, or a stinky ol' casino.

Back in the bad old days, about everyone smoked. My doctor, my physical education teacher father, even my 80 year old grandmother smoked. Doctors did commercials telling you how good cigarettes were for you. I smoked, too, even with asthma. I stopped in my early 20s, over 50 years ago. A very dear friend didn't, and now he had COPD and had a cancerous tumor in his lung. Another dear friend got esophagus cancer from smoking and it killed him.

Back in the 1950s and 1960s you rolled up your cigaretted in your T-shirt sleeve. It went along with your "DA" (duck's a$$) haircut.

Jim Croce knew all about that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUl9l1O7sE

Jerry

I smoked about a pack a day from the early 70's until 1996. Mostly Marlboro's.

That Ky tobacco you raised were’nt good enough to smoke? 😃

Send that stuff to China.

never smoked.......thankful today.....

Never a cigarette.
Some cigars.

Smokeless was my poison, a bit of snuff, mostly side chew.
I was lucky to never get addicted, just developed a habit.
When two coworkers developed oral cancer, I decided it wasn't
worth it. That was 15 years ago, I still crave a chew when I smell
it or see a store display.

Never had one in my mouth

I learned to smoke in boot camp and loved it from day one. Usually smoked < than 1 pack/day. I quit 8 years ago because I felt stupid, at last.


mike r

Used to watch my cousin smoke crushed up oxycontin tabs in a piece of car antenna rod



He ded now

1963 to 1996. Camel . even today my nose goes up like an infield fly when I smell one. quit by dipping. that was harder to quit then cigs.
during the era of the 60's rolled plenty other smoke too. am blessed that I still have good lungs and no cancer so far.

Jeez..........maybe he shoulda went fishin.........

or to a cathouse in NV........

Quit a 2 pack a day habit Dec. 8th 2014.

Not proud of starting it as I sure knew better, but I started at a strange time in my life & that was that.

I spent 15 months in a recon unit in RVN and we never smoked outside the wire. I learned the majesty of the Zippo lighter as it could light a Marlboro in the back of a Huey during liftoff from a hot LZ. Noise and light discipline are easy, not smoking in the field separates the men from the boys.


mike r

Quit cigars 6 years ago.

Quit cigarettes 20 some odd years ago.

Wish I'd never started.

I guess they all be dead, eh?

Pretty much the same here having started smoking in junior high. Started drinking early, too and haven't totally quit that but don't drink much. Quit smoking twenty years ago and can't understand how I ever liked smoking. I try real hard not to be one of the righteous ex smokers that beetches about others smoking. Just try to avoid situations where there's smoke in the air.

Been done 15 years. Just had enough. Born to a family of smokers and tobacco farmers. I can breath now....

I've tried cigs but never became a smoker. Didn't like it.

I've chewed Copenhagen since 6th grade and love it too much to quit. I probably should though.

There is a “park” across the street from the office building I work in. The “park” is only about a 1/4 city block and is mostly pavement, full of smokers and hobos.

My late 50’s age coworker returned from a smoke break one day last week looking a bit shaken and says:

“I just had something happen to me that has never happened before. I really didn’t know how to respond to it.”

What happened? Says I.

“Some guy just came up to me in the park and said -
I’ll suck your dick for a cigarette.”
(It was about 10 degrees out)

Coworker said he did not say anything and just walked away. By the time we were done rubbing him about it, he was wishing he had kept the whole uncomfortable episode to himself!

Same here. Having moved a bunch the doctor's are always stunned...

After 30+ years, I quit cold turkey November 15, 2018, in support of my wife. Her doctor said he wouldn't do hip surgery on her unless she quit. Well she had the surgery, but didn't quit, and I didn't start up again. Actually it was a pretty easy thing to do.

Started at age 10, stopped at age 34 +.

When I stopped it wasn't unusual to go through almost 3 packs a day. Ever see that guy working with a 'grit in his mug? That was me.

Tobacco addict to the max. Would smoke a cigarette with a chew of Red Man in while drinking beer at the keg party. Did that old timey snort up the nose snuff too. Only thing I never really liked was the Cope type snuff, not because of taste or effect, just like chaw better. Smoked cigars and pipe tobacco on occasion too. Pulled apart butts from the ash trays after drinking parties when I was broke or until I could get to the store. Absolutely loved the stuff, still love the smell of unburnt tabacky. Ask friends who still smoke if I can open the lid on their hard packs and take a sniff still.

So glad I quit though. When I did, for incentive I saved half what I burned up every day in a fund for fishing equipment and "stuff". 2 packs a day was about $4 so I saved $14 a week. Could get a nice reel every month or so at that rate back then.

Cannot for the life of me imagine paying $6, $8, or even $10 a pack for smokes now.

Did I say I'm so glad I quit.

My secret, learned partially from my old man who went through a 5 pack of cigars (and not those little ones) every day and just up and quit one day, ...................I just don't smoke the first one, or take the first chew................never.

Geno

$180 a month in Skoal...Like clockwork. 😎

$150 in Copenhagen. Trying hard to quit though.

Never smoked anything.

Picked the finest Shade grown and Broadleaf grown as a kid. I learned fast just how bad that crap is from suckering and picking it. Wearing long sleeve shirts under the nets sucked but your arms turning to leather was worst!

Quit,

and buy yourselves a decent rifle or pistol, out of state DIY hunt, new loading equipment, new performance and show quality whippet puppy from excellent lines ( ), and/or............................????

Geno

Nah, got and do all that too, Geno...

Now, a Whippet? You might be on ta something right there’s. 😬😎

OK then.....................


quit and get a maid for a day!

Geno

PS my parents couldn't afford one and I still can't.

Posted before but this was our “dove field” last summer

Mrs slumlord used to raise burley and dark with her daddy and ‘papaw’. Ya think it woulda took the sass outta her.

For those that don't know, that's dark fired tobacco. Cured with heat and smoke in barns, and used for chewing and dipping, with some of what is called "wrapper" leaf used to make cigars.

Wish my dad hadn’t smoked. Maybe he would have lived past 66 and not been in so much pain his last years.

I quit in 1970 50 years ago I now have COPD.

He has a large operation to have that much dark.

The dark always seems droopy and heavy by appearance and more greener obviously.

Some of it may be air cured dark, as U.S. Tobacco contracts a lot of that out here. We used to call it One Sucker when I grew it, although why I do not know, as it had just as many suckers on it as did any other kind of tobacco.

That looks like a HUGE tobacco base!

How did that work? I understand there was/is only so much acreage allowed to be planted in tobacco. How was it assigned?

Lease up surrounding landowners’ base.

We used to lease ours out.

And yes...i was going to bring up that being a LARGE ‘base’ , figured it would fly over most greasy foreheads on here. Lol

These guys had about 30 mexis busting their asses in 95 degree heat.

My bud’s father in law used to run about 90 acres combined of both. He had a dozen mexicans that lived on site for the whole duration. He also had a couple hundred head of cattle and a shîtload of goats too for days they didnt need to be in the crop.

At least he wasn't from Billings or Salmon!

Lots of former smokers here which is kind of a surprise. My first wife was a smoker too, but I buried her from lung cancer at age 53. Her smoking cost me a new house because her smoking in the old house wasn't good for me or the kids. Well, buy us a new one with a patio she told me, so I did. One day her smokers cough contained some blood in it and by that time it had spread to her liver, then her bone and brain. She was popping 40 mg Oxi like M&M's for the year long pain. We could have spent a Hawaiian vacation every year for what she was spending on those damn things to say nothing of a year long string of medical bills for chemo and radiation.

No, I never touched the things because I was in athletics and lung capacity sure beat smoking something. My 7th grade science teacher had a great demonstration for the class when he took one drag from a cigarette through a tissue and showed the class that brown crap that was going into your lungs. Later on my MD sister was in medical school and her cadaver was a former smoker. She said that running a scalpel into his lung tissue felt like it was going through gravel? I'm off my soapbox now. carry on.

Is that the kind of tobacco that stinks to high heaven and makes you want to puke just driving by the field?

Wabigoon: I was the child of two smokers and never had a desire to partake of that "bad habit" - come to think of it my two brothers never smoked either.
Saved a LOT of money and hope I saved some wear and tear on my body by staying away from them.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy