Do you smoke?

I’ve never smoked although the rest of my family did. All my closet relatives died of smoke related illnesses. Although they did all live at least to 80 with no other conditions. Except my DF who died at 70 with lung cancer.
I often wonder what great ages they might have reached if they hadn’t smoked.

No I’ve never smoked can’t stand the stink on clothes etc etc, none of my friends do either, we only have one in our family that enjoys a smoke

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Yeah, I have always thought that it's a bad habit but then I tried to smoke this garanimals strain after reading some reviews on askgrowers.com/strains/garanimals-strain-review and www.leafly.com/strains/garanimals and now I'm obsessed with it, as it helps me feel better and more relaxed as well.

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I’m so very sorry saetana. ?

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I’m so very sorry saetana. ?

Never smoked, didn’t start drinking till I was in my thirties and then only socially. Hit the bottle when I retired (to cope with anxiety and depression) but I’m now happily T total!

I gave up smoking in February 2021. My husband died on Christmas Day and I started smoking again the same day. Currently cut down to 5 a day and expect to be able to give up again before the end of the year. I was never a heavy smoker, no more than 10 a day, no idea how people find the time to smoke 40+ cigarettes a day!

My dad - who smoked about 50 untipped cigarettes a day - died at 47 from lung cancer. I've never smoked.

I'm 70, both my parents smoked 40+ a day, every body did then but surpsingly none of their 5 children have ever smoked although some of the next generation do (pleased to say not my two though)

i tried it at 16 when it was legal, did not like but started when i was 23 as my husband smoked, i gave up 5 years ago and i use a vape (more of a comfort thing). since i stopped i have had no end of medical problems...lol cancer twice - not smoking related, i catch every bug and virus that's going and i am always on antibiotics every few months and i have put on 4 stone that is proving very difficult to shift. lots of people i have spoke to have said the same thing about having different health problems since they stopped.

I sm9ked for years and no major health problems.

I gave up in August 2019. Since then I've got knackered kidneys, and on dialysis, 2 hernias and a burst aortic aneurysm.

I should have stuck to the cigs.

I have never smoked and detest the habit. I am a lifelong asthmatic and would be stupid to start. My mum has never smoked but my dad smoked twenty a day for years - all his side of the family smoked apart from his mother and at family gatherings they would pass the cigarettes around like sweets. My dad started smoking in the fifties. - it was almost a rite of passage then, particularly for young men. I now know l suffered from passive smoking as even simple colds nearly always turned into bronchitis or other chest infections. However, in the seventies, the dangers of smoking to oneself were becoming apparent but the dangers of passive smoking were still not widely known. All l know is that when he stopped smoking in the house when I was eighteen, my colds were much less likely to turn into chest infections. My dad drastically cut down his cigarettes as he grew older to around five a day but could never completely give up. Unfortunately, he died of lung cancer in 2018, just shy of his 78th birthday.

I’ve never smoked, though my parents, and almost all of the extended family did. There were lots of family get togethers so I certainly did a lot of of passive smoking.
Some years ago, when teaching P7 pupils, I was asked to discuss the health dangers of smoking, after which the pupils had to design a poster to highlight said dangers. We had a good discussion and the pupils took it seriously. However, for some reason, I decided to highlight other aspects of smoking. I held a lit match to a £10 note, and asked if I should burn the money. Needless to say, there were shouts of ‘ No ‘. I explained that in some ways, that is what’s really happening when you smoke a packet of twenty cigarette. We then calculated how much it cost to smoke per week, month and year. They were quite shocked by the amounts. There was a multitude of suggestions as to what these sums of money could be used for - from everyday needs to luxury goods, and savings! In the end, most of their posters were about the financial aspects of smoking. It made me wonder if more emphasis should be put on the economics of smoking, as well as the danger to health, in the education system. The eleven/twelve year olds certainly paid attention.

I smoked from 17-21 and I don’t know why I never enjoyed it. I thought it made me look cool! I only smoked about 20 a week ( I am sure you could buy packets of 5 ). My parents smoked from about the age of 14 until they died aged 81 but lived the last few years suffering badly with COPD and my Mum had many heart attacks. My brother smoked aswell for many years and has just undergone surgery for mouth cancer, probably caused by smoking.
When I met my husband he smoked and I said I couldn’t carry on seeing him if he smoked so he said ok I will give up and he did. My 2 children are very anti smokers in fact my daughter said her baby couldn’t go to her MILs house if she continued to smoke, she struggled but she gave up.

I have tried it once or twice in my young days, but never took up the habit.

I was very tired being the only person not to smoke among my family and friends. In the 1970s and 80s it was consider odd not to smoke.

Here (Denmark) it is a standard question asked by all doctors - both GPs and hospital consultants, irrespective of what you or they suspect may be wrong with you, as is if, or how much alcohol you drink.

Other frequent questions are what illnesses or operations you have had, whether anyone in your family suffers/suffered from various hereditary illnesses, diabetes, etc.

Some of these questions are asked to help make a diagnosis, others for statistical or research questions. Gynæocologists require one to remember when one last had a period - by the this time (I am 70) I frankly do not remember so I usually say December 1999 and cross my fingers! It has the virtue of being a date I can remember, so the entries are consistent, and I think it is right.

I tried it with friends when we were about 14 years old and I choked and coughed my head off, it saved me a fortune as I never bothered again. It's just a pity it never happened when I started chomping on chocolate....

1942. In the WAAF on nights in the cipher office decoding lists of casualties. We had free cigarettes from the NAAFI. When I was posted to another office gave up and swapped cigs for chocolate. Never smoked another one.

I’ve never smoked- cigarette smoke has always made me wheezy. When I was a child, a neighbour died from lung cancer, and even back then, (60 years ago) we knew smoking was dangerous to health.
My father smoked whilst he was in the navy doing national service (2 years) He developed asthma ( and married my non smoking mother ?) so gave up in his early 20s- but he still had smoking put as a secondary cause of death on his death certificate! Of course for most of his working life, colleagues he worked with, smoked in the staff room, so secondary smoke may have contributed to his poor health in his late life.

Used to smoke, probably around 10 a day, then had a really bad chest infection.
Decided to stop and have never smoked since, that was almost thirty years ago. Can’t stand the smell of them now.

My dad was a 60 a day Capstan Full Strength smoker from his teens to his early 60's. My mum smoked too till my sister was born in 1961. By then I'd had 11 years of being kippered. They had a VW Beetle too (engine in the back) and they wondered why I got car sick.... I never wanted to smoke. Oddly, my sister, who had asthma, smoked from her teens till her 40's. Both parents had cancer when they died but opted for no treatment other than palliative care and died relatively quickly and 'easily' within 6 months of diagnosis....

I smoked between the ages of 17 and 25. I started smoking as it was a bit 'cool' when I was a student and my then boyfriend also smoked. Neither of my parents smoked.

I gave up when I became pregnant at 25 and have never smoked since. I didn't even enjoy smoking and don't know how anyone can afford it these days

My ex MIL smoked Capstan full strength. She died of a smoking related disease. Her house stank of smoke and she rarely opened the windows. You could see the nicotine stains on the once white walls.

I was so pleased when they banned smoking in public places. I used to hate coming home from a night out with all of my clothes smelling of smoke. I have been in restaurants with people smoking between courses on nearby tables - revolving if you are eating.

Does anyone remember Roy Castle. He never smoked but had passively smoked when he was playing his trumpet (?) in smoky clubs. He died quite young of lung cancer. Such a shame

...and that's the net cost lizzypopbottle. You have to consider that to spend £10 on a pack of cigarettes you have to earn £12 at least. My addicted relative smokes about forty a day - £140 net a week. I truly don't know how she affords it.

I smoked about 20 a day from being 25 then retired and stopped with no effort. I’d tried numerous times before but for some unknown reason this time worked. That was 3 years ago and still no urge to smoke even when in the company of smokers.

NEver smoked and I think it is a filthy habit. So glad they banned it in public places because I was mad when I had to go outside to get away from the filthy air generated by smokers. What does annoy me is the suggestion that smokers could be paid as an incentive to give up. Exercise willpower for God's sake.