any smoking roadgeeks?

[J N Winkler]

I have inhaled secondhand marijuana smoke; I couldn't really avoid it since I was in Amsterdam at the time and hadn't realized that it is necessary to search specially for marijuana-free lodgings.  I found the experience to be less of a definite "high" and more of a stoned-out indifference.  It also takes a considerable amount of time for the evidence of marijuana consumption to leave your system.  I felt my state of mind (in terms of affect and so on) was essentially normal after 24 hours, but it took about a week for my apocrine sweat to stop smelling of burnt rope.  People who have to submit to drug testing regularly (for either legal or occupational reasons) really can't afford even passive exposure to marijuana smoke.

Legalities aside, I object to smoking in general--not just tobacco but also marijuana, cloves, and indeed anything else that can be smoked--because of the particulate load on the lungs.  Smoke occurs naturally and the human lung can clean itself, but I feel that recreational smoking (even passively) overwhelms the natural self-cleaning mechanism and degrades lung function over time.

[seicer]

The difference in tar collection with vapos pens and bongs/bowls/etc. is also very stark. It's essentially a cleaner high with a vapo pen - you get the thc without the smoky and smelly house.

[place-saint-henri]

Now. when I think of a road meet or road trip, I just need to have Cigarettes. As I am mildly suicidal (i.e. I wont end my own life overtly, but I enjoy doing unhealthy things) I enjoy the idea of slowly killing myself and it looks cool as hell!

Any roadgeeks here puff the cancer sticks or even the herb (I am not 420 friendly but I dont care if others do it)??

me, I enjoy Cigars and when I am on the road, Marlboro 27s or Belmonts (if in Canada).

Meow.

[adventurernumber1]

I remember already seeing a thread like this looking at old threads on the forum one time.

This would be it: https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=8530.0

But as for my own answer, I am never thinking about smoking. Oddly, you love the fact you're going to get a heckload of health problems from smoking, but that's you. I don't like the thought of health problems at all (especially lung issues, yeek), so don't count on me ever smoking. Not even once.

EDIT: I don't blame you for not being able to find the first thread about smoking, it has a rather misleading name compared to the actual topic, but good thing I go deep diving into the old threads every so often 

[corco]

I will sometimes chew tobacco on roadtrips, but I almost never smoke cigarettes. I prefer huffing computer keyboard duster though- that's a pretty insane high.

When I am located in the states of Washington or Colorado and am not currently employed, I definitely enjoy partaking in reasonable amounts of marijuana.

[roadman65]

I smoked from 1981 when cigarettes were only 70 cents a pack to 1991 when they became 2 dollars. 

I do not know why I quit, but I am glad I did quit.

BTW, in Florida we have some anti smoking group having someone run their voice through a machine to scare you into thinking the cigarettes changed his voice to sound like a computer for you to stop.  Even though I am not a smoker anymore, I still think that those against it go to far overboard in attempts to get people to quit.

[Zeffy]

Now. when I think of a road meet or road trip, I just need to have Cigarettes. As I am mildly suicidal (i.e. I wont end my own life overtly, but I enjoy doing unhealthy things) I enjoy the idea of slowly killing myself and it looks cool as hell!

There is absolutely no enjoyment in suffering from the diseases brought on from the chemicals in cigarettes. Also, it doesn't look cool. If you do it to look cool then you are a tool.

I have never once smoked a cig in my life, though I was around some of my friends who did it before school, though I did my best to avoid breathing in that nasty smelling odor of Tobacco smoke. However, I enjoyed smoking marijuana every day before school to ease my stress and honestly get me through classes where I was pretty much alone without friends. I stopped because I was (and am) looking for a job, but if someone were to offer me a chance to smoke I would take it up in a heartbeat.

[hbelkins]

I've never taken the first puff off a cigarette. Never wanted to. They're nasty and they stink. My dad smoked up until I was about 7 or 8; my mother smoked until she died of smoking-related cancer at age 50.

I'm also definitely not 420-friendly. I've never smoked dope and don't have any use for it whatsoever.

These days, I couldn't afford the luxury of paying for anything to smoke even if I did have the addiction/habit.

[Pete from Boston]

The single dumbest thing I've ever done–and there's formidable competition for this title–was to start smoking.  Lest this sound like the high horse of a former smoker, I assure you that I felt this very strongly early on in smoking.  It's like willingly catching a barely-curable disease because it's fun.

Finally managing to quit after numerous attempts felt like sneaking off death row when no one was looking.

Whatever your feelings about it, or your success in beating COPD (good friggin' luck), cancer, or emphysema, smoking's the best way there is (aside from sitting in the sun all day) to make your face look like shit long before nature planned. 

It's fun, I admit, but that fun requires willful ignorance and tacit self-contempt. 

[roadman65]

Now. when I think of a road meet or road trip, I just need to have Cigarettes. As I am mildly suicidal (i.e. I wont end my own life overtly, but I enjoy doing unhealthy things) I enjoy the idea of slowly killing myself and it looks cool as hell!

There is absolutely no enjoyment in suffering from the diseases brought on from the chemicals in cigarettes. Also, it doesn't look cool. If you do it to look cool then you are a tool.

I have never once smoked a cig in my life, though I was around some of my friends who did it before school, though I did my best to avoid breathing in that nasty smelling odor of Tobacco smoke. However, I enjoyed smoking marijuana every day before school to ease my stress and honestly get me through classes where I was pretty much alone without friends. I stopped because I was (and am) looking for a job, but if someone were to offer me a chance to smoke I would take it up in a heartbeat.

Same thing with tatoos as women nowadays think that is hot and just as great as the clothes that they wear.  Smoking for some reason is quite popular to want to do with many people as for some reason its considered the "In" thing to do in many places.

I cannot tell you how many girl next door types smoke cigarettes these days.  Go to Hooters, you would think it is a requisition to be a server there as most of the girls smoke who wear the white and orange uniforms.

[spooky]

I cannot tell you how many girl next door types smoke cigarettes these days.  Go to Hooters, you would think it is a requisition to be a server there as most of the girls smoke who wear the white and orange uniforms.

I was going to suggest that the girl next door type isn't at Hooters, but then I remembered you live in Florida.

[freebrickproductions]

I haven't ever smoked a day in my life. Part of it is the law, another part of it is that I have allergies, and the last part is that I just don't want to.
My dad used to smoke, but he quit when he met my mom.

[roadman65]

I cannot tell you how many girl next door types smoke cigarettes these days.  Go to Hooters, you would think it is a requisition to be a server there as most of the girls smoke who wear the white and orange uniforms.

I was going to suggest that the girl next door type isn't at Hooters, but then I remembered you live in Florida.

I was merely suggesting that it is one of many places you will find the girl next door.  Yes in Florida we have warmth all year and even when not you have many (guys especially) people who love to dress for the Summer year round.  Matter of fact lately its been those with thin blood who wear shorts more in colder temps than those with thick blood.  It used to be those who planted themselves from the north who wore summer clothing in 60 degree weather as that was considered too cold for Floridians.  Now its the other way around, where tourists from colder climates bundle up on 40 and 50 degree days while those living here wear tank tops and shorts.

Hey in Florida, restaurants are plentiful and the best place for anyone to get a job, and Hooters and all the Breastaurants are places for girls too start serving because you do not need experience to get hired.  Just be good looking and flirtatious and your a Hooters or a Ker's Winghouse waitress without that dumb accessment test that many places make you take to apply for employment.

[J N Winkler]

I have never smoked.  Both parents were smokers--my mother smoked half a pack of cigarettes a day, while my father smoked a pipe.  They continued to smoke for a good fifteen years after my paternal grandfather, a very heavy smoker, died of lung cancer at age 59.  My mother used to smoke everywhere in the house until she noticed I was missing a lot of school due to respiratory illnesses that never seemed to clear up.  The worst of these was an episode of bronchitis that kept me out of school for three weeks in third grade; on my first day back, the other kids on the school bus told me that they thought I had died.

Thereafter my mother went into the bathroom to smoke behind a closed door, though my father used to light his pipe after bedtime and the smoke often kept me awake.

I never experienced the slightest temptation to start smoking even as an act of teenage rebellion.  Now I have friends who tell me of relatives who have emphysema and COPD because they continued smoking into their sixties . . .  No.  Just no.

As I have gotten older and bans on smoking in communal settings have proliferated, I have become more tolerant of other people's smoking, especially when they take care to do it in well-ventilated areas so that nonsmokers don't have to catch more than a whiff or two as they walk through.  However, I have my limits.  I don't want to be following someone on the sidewalk when the wind is blowing his or her cigarette smoke into my face.  I don't want to be waiting at a light next to a smoker who has a cigarette dangling in his or her fingers outside his or her open car window, since the smoke then gets sucked into my vents unless I hit the recirculate button in time.

It is nearly impossible to remove the smoke smell altogether from a house or car.  It is still possible to get a whiff of stale smoke in my parents' house when re-entering it after it has been closed up for a few days, and this is in spite of the carpet being replaced and interior walls being repainted after they stopped smoking.

[Laura]

Because lazy:

In college, I used to smoke cloves and unfiltered Lucky Strikes when I drank on the weekends. In social settings, I smoked a hookah and worked at a hookah bar one summer. I always thought regular mainstream cigarettes tasted pretty terrible and processed. I did date a guy who smoked Marlboro lights, which were probably the only mainstream ones that I tolerated.

Then I had a bad night of drinking and smoking too much and quit casually smoking. Oddly, I did not withdraw in real life, but had crazy withdraw dreams. I was more addicted subconsciously than I realized. This was at the end of 2008.

If the social situation allows, I will smoke a hookah, but that usually happens once a year or two. As for the green, I only smoke it in social situations (once every year or two), but it always takes me an ungodly amount of the stuff to feel anything. My friends would be high after a few hits, but it did nothing for me. I believe this is because I'm a pretty excited/anxious person, so i need more of it to mellow.

Interestingly, I never liked the smell of tobacco on me. It would super gross me out that my fingers smelled like it. Thankfully this kept me from smoking it more, so I never got seriously addicted.

My husband's parents smoke Winstons in their house, and it grosses me out. I smell like an ashtray when I leave and it takes me two showers to get the smell completely off. I love them to death but don't visit them as much as I'd like because of the smoke.

Pretty much nothing has changed. Got a couple of chances (literally, 2) to smoke the green this calendar year (last time was in 2010, longer than I realized), and it worked wonders for my anxiety.

I have no interest in vaps (or e-cigs) because they were deceivingly marketed as "cessation aids" and really haven't been tested for their smoking effects. They could have just as many bad chemicals in them, but we have no idea.

[Scott5114]

I've never smoked, and being in the casino industry for 5 years hasn't made me want to start any time soon. (Nothing like opening a slant-top slot machine and having it shower ashes on your head...)

[bugo]

I've never taken the first puff off a cigarette. Never wanted to. They're nasty and they stink. My dad smoked up until I was about 7 or 8; my mother smoked until she died of smoking-related cancer at age 50.

I'm also definitely not 420-friendly. I've never smoked dope and don't have any use for it whatsoever.

These days, I couldn't afford the luxury of paying for anything to smoke even if I did have the addiction/habit.

You're mixing up your drug slang. "420" refers to cannabis, while "dope" is another name for methamphetamine.

[bugo]

I'm surprised that this hasn't evolved (or devolved, if you wish) into a discussion of drinking vs. drug use.

Drinking IS drug use. I notice you separate alcohol from all other drugs. Alcohol is towards the bottom as far as safety is concerned. It's more harmful than cocaine and heroin for example.

[bugo]

Sometimes I believe I'm the only person in the world who has never smoked dope, not even once to try it.

I've never smoked meth either.

[Pete from Boston]

I've never taken the first puff off a cigarette. Never wanted to. They're nasty and they stink. My dad smoked up until I was about 7 or 8; my mother smoked until she died of smoking-related cancer at age 50.

I'm also definitely not 420-friendly. I've never smoked dope and don't have any use for it whatsoever.

These days, I couldn't afford the luxury of paying for anything to smoke even if I did have the addiction/habit.

You're mixing up your drug slang. "420" refers to cannabis, while "dope" is another name for methamphetamine.

Dope has always been a catch-all for a lot of drugs.  I hear it used all the time for weed, and no, not among PTA members, school principals, or narcs.

[Alps]

I smoked cigarettes quite a lot last year, but then I started to hit the gym more, and now I only really smoke cigarettes when I'm drunk.

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Ah, the innocence of youth. The things we post on public forums for employers to discover. I'll do you a favor and delete your latter statement.

[hbelkins]

You're mixing up your drug slang. "420" refers to cannabis, while "dope" is another name for methamphetamine.

Not here. "Dope" means weed.

[Pete from Boston]

It have encountered it used for heroin, marijuana, all drugs in general, and of course performance-enhancing drugs in sports (doping).

[M3019C LPS20]

When I was ten years old, I tried a cigarette for the first time. This was merely out of curiosity, mind you. I did not necessarily want to be "cool."

I put the cigarette in my mouth, and, about five seconds later, I immediately took it out of my mouth. The taste as I remember was truly horrible. To this day, I cannot explain to you what it tasted like, but that made me decide not to smoke again.

[bugo]

You're mixing up your drug slang. "420" refers to cannabis, while "dope" is another name for methamphetamine.

Not here. "Dope" means weed.

How do you know? Did you buy a quarter last week? Do you hang out with stoners?