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Hypocrites! If they are so against the product then make its sale in the city illegal, its no different then the dry counties that prohibit alcohol sales.
Wow, four packs. I didn't know there was enough time in a day to smoke that much.
I worked with a guy who smoked four packs a day back when you could smoke everywhere. He reeked of smoke. Always lighting up. No idea if he's still alive.
It's about 1 cigarette every 15 min. if you're awake 16 hours a day. Probably 5 min. smoking, and 10 minutes until the next one. And people don't just sit and smoke, ya know - unless they have to go outside - but those people aren't smoking 3 packs a day.
Not for everyone. My husband smokes the long ones... and he usually lights one up a few minutes after the last one. He can no longer do much so he sits on his computer all day and yes.. he can squeeze in all those smokes. The only time he goes longer in between is if the grandkids are here.
I quit cold-turkey in 1979, not for health reasons but because I got tired of paying for them, and they were around $1 to $1.50/pk back then.
Some can, some can't, quit cold turkey! It's been well-proven, some people have the constitution to do it, others can't. And the cold turkey crowd can't comprehend why everyone can't quit cold turkey.
If you find someone who can't go cold turkey, then go to Plan B: cut down, cut down, cut down!
Now that I'm smoking one cigarette in shifts, when I complete the first one third, I oftentimes have tricked myself into thinking I had whole cigarette!
It's difficult to quit any addiction, so let's put all addictions on a parallel line, yes, even the drug of the 21st century, the Smartphone.
...even the drug of the 21st century, the Smartphone.
There is an interesting parallel between cigs and Smartphones.
With cigs, quite a few people would enter a party with one lit, and as they were exiting they'd have one lit.
Smartphones too, at least at the onset.
They'd be talking on the phone entering the party where there was a good chance they wouldn't know anyone in the immediate doorway area, and also upon exiting, with the possible exception if the host/ess or someone else was seeing them to the door.
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LOL, the city is pricing itself out of business there, people will just go over the bridge and into NJ or Ct etc and buy cartons there, it will be those states that get the sales tax too.
I worked with a guy who smoked four packs a day back when you could smoke everywhere. He reeked of smoke. Always lighting up. No idea if he's still alive.
Probably not, my late sister was a 2 packs a day smoker, she died of lung cancer 18 months ago. She had a benign tumor removed a number of years earlier which SHOULD have been a wakeup call but wasnt. By the time she was diagnosed she was already at stage 4 it was that fast, and a couple of months later she was dead, made it to 71 and left behind 2 boys, husband and grandchildren.
Back when cigarettes were more affordable, and legal to smoke anywhere, I heard of at least several people that smoked 6 packs a day. So it seems that a 3 pack a day smoker is smoking half the time they are awake.
If they are in smoking prohibited places half the time, they may be smoking non-stop in allowed places.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Geek
That's what I thought too. Perhaps people embellish (for whatever reason) how much they smoke but I hear people always saying how they used to smoke 3 packs per day. I imagine you'd have to spend the majority of your day smoking if you smoke that many.
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