Love smoking personally, calms me down, takes the edge off. Though it could be argued that I would be less edgy if I had never started smoking in the first place, such is the virtue of 20/20 hindsight I guess. Still, it gives me something to do between loading screens.

And on the subject of chewing tobacco, don't ever eat it :/. I made the mistake of munching down on two decently sized handfuls of Winnie Red when I was pissed as a fart. Suffice it to say, it came back up as fast as it went down and the next day I could taste the tobacco itself, not the smoke, and it doesn't taste very pleasant.

heres one for the smokers;

my great grandmother smoked since she was 18 and lived to 91.

I don't smoke, but whenever I drink I get the Overwhelming urge to.

*Shakes fist* "Damn you Jim Bean!!"

elffymon:
heres one for the smokers;
my great grandmother smoked since she was 18 and lived to 91.

Bill Hicks:
Here's one for you. Non-Smokers die everyday!

:)

hughball:
mmmm nothing beats a nice coffee and a smoke pity whenever i do that people come up and cough at me, seriously have these people nothing better to do than bug me?

People have come up to me in the smoking area and complained before. You get assholes on both sides of the fence though as my brother smokes wherever he feels like.
Next time you're at a traffic crossing, start coughing at all the drivers. :)

I don't smoke purely out of fiscal reasons, it's a damn expensive habit...

On the other hand, I'm one of the few people who seem to not mind cigars or pipes over cigarettes. The latter always smelling far too chemically than the formers.

I don't smoke, but practically every adult I know under the age of thirty in my home town does, as well as many teenagers. It's not a very nice place to live and I worked damn hard to get away from it. I guess it's just a cultural thing, because smoking is a lot less common where I live now (obviously a much better place all round in terms of standards of living!)

elffymon:
heres one for the smokers;

my great grandmother smoked since she was 18 and lived to 91.

I was at my nan's 75th birthday and getting all the you shouldnt smoke from my aunt's, so my brother and I went to go out side to have a cig. My great aunt Ivy who's 96 turn's to us and says "hold on lad's ill come for a smoke with you just let me get a drink of rum"
I really hope i can be saying that at the same age.

I've never smoked cigarettes before, and I never will. My mom, her boyfriend, my sister, and my dad's wife all smoke, and they complain about wanting to quit but not being able to all the time.

I've only smoked weed like 3 times, and the last time I had a really bad anxiety attack because of it, so I'll never touch that stuff again.

I do like the occasional cigar, usually when I'm drinking. And I think pipes are cool too, although they're kind of a pain to light and everything.

I smoke every now and then but not cigarettes.

cigarette smoke makes me want to puke.

I started smoking cigars shortly after I turned 18. I then moved on to a pipe, and then a hookah, and now I smoke at least a pack of Marlboro's a day.

They teach us all our lives that it's a bad habit and all, but I grew up with an immediate family that hated smoking, and and extended family that smoked like chimneystacks. The smell of tobacco is actually kind of comforting because of that. At this point, I get nothing from the nicotine, and it's somehow a relaxation thing. I've quit for periods of up to a month, just to see if I could. But really, I just feel a lot better about a lot of things when I'm smoking. Also, they're really good during a conversation, where you have to pause and think, if only not to make a fool of yourself.

i don't smoke really, occassionally i'll sit out on the porch with my friend and smoke a cigar, it's less than once a month most of the time and it's more about the conversation and having a reason to just sit out without being bored. so i still consider myself a non-smoker

cigar smoke is just as toxic if not more so however, i will say this i do love being able to sit on my back veranda in a suit and thongs and discuss world affairs.

Alexandrous:
I started smoking cigars shortly after I turned 18. I then moved on to a pipe, and then a hookah, and now I smoke at least a pack of Marlboro's a day.

They teach us all our lives that it's a bad habit and all, but I grew up with an immediate family that hated smoking, and and extended family that smoked like chimneystacks. The smell of tobacco is actually kind of comforting because of that. At this point, I get nothing from the nicotine, and it's somehow a relaxation thing. I've quit for periods of up to a month, just to see if I could. But really, I just feel a lot better about a lot of things when I'm smoking. Also, they're really good during a conversation, where you have to pause and think, if only not to make a fool of yourself.

do you realize what you just said there?

i hope i'm not the only one who is seeing what i'm seeing.

Nods to Ultrajoe. Does sound like a cigarette fanboi.

I just hope you're not in England, because that's £6($12) you're spending a day...

Psychological comfort is not the same as Non-toxic.

Who would have thought gamers would be so health conscious?

Ì smoke coz it makes me look so very cool, I mean I'm in there with james dean, sammy davis, steve mcqueen, n mr bogart..... and you know what, yourt television gives you cancer, as does you pc and for christ sake most of you cook using a MICROwave oven..... and another point, if any other product was carcenagenic they would take it of the market, but for some reason not one single goverment around the word has forced their tobbacco companies to only grow natural tobbacco [IE as nature intended without all the burn longertaste better chemicals]

smoking may stink, but if we just did what the middle classes did with organic, we can have a friendly kinder smoke. and still look cool.

I guess I could be called a cigarette fanboy, but I'm cool with that. And no, I live in texas, so it's only about $5 a day. I can save about ten bucks if I buy a carton, though. Also, the city I live in is supported almost entirely by chemical companies, so smoker or not, I'm doomed to cancer.

Saphatorael:
Don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs.

I'm a good boy. (19y old, mind you)

Good man, me too.

The_root_of_all_evil:
I'm trying to quit but gaming (especially FPS) does bring out the need for the weed.

word.

I don't smoke. The reason why: it smells bad.

I don't smoke, drink or do drugs.

I'm so boring...

Used to smoke cigars, but gave them up because 1) I couldn't afford it, and 2) I wanted to see my daughter often, but I refused to smoke around her...

Used to, then i moved out of home with a dude who chainsmoked and chain-gamed on games like Battlefield//Planetside etc and he'd never leave the house to smoke so within a year the house reeked like his room and his walls were covered in a thin but just visible layer of yellow tar.
i kinda just stopped smoking after that....

I don't smoke neither do any of my "gamer friends".

A note to anyone who has posted that smoking relaxes them: It only does that because you are addicted to nicotine. If you had never smoked at all you would be that relaxed all the time. Why pay someone to slowly kill you?

Not true. When I smoked cigars I had a level of relaxation coming back to work that I NEVER would have felt when I didn't smoke. Want to know how I know? Because I only smoked for three months, and I had the same stressful job for five, and I quit smoking AFTER I got fired. Do the math.

ive held on to the belief that "smokers are jokers" all my life:)
many of my gamer friends however do smoke. i wud liken smoking to ethuthinasia cause you're killing yourself at the end of the day, albeit very very very very very very very slowly lol.

id rather spend the money on games, hookers and blackjack.

Infact, forget the games and black jack!

WlknCntrdiction:
ive held on to the belief that "smokers are jokers" all my life:)
many of my gamer friends however do smoke. i wud liken smoking to ethuthinasia cause you're killing yourself at the end of the day, albeit very very very very very very very slowly lol.

something usually drives people to take up the smoke, drugs or alcohol (in unhealthy amounts)

sometimes the promise of a little oblivion or a brief respite is a big temptation.

Darth Mobius:
Infact, forget the games and black jack!

only took 3 minutes for someone to do that 1 :p

Flunk:

A note to anyone who has posted that smoking relaxes them: It only does that because you are addicted to nicotine. If you had never smoked at all you would be that relaxed all the time. Why pay someone to slowly kill you?

Darth is right, you know there's a narcotic effect because when you stop, your body let's you know exactly what pain it's been in.
Also, I get far more breaks when I'm a smoker, and the action of going outside and taking deep breaths has always been calming.

As for the 'smoking is euthanasia' joke: So is Caffeine, Sucrose, Driving, Alcohol, Head Banging, Eating Meat, Having Sex etc.etc.etc.
And let's face it, if you're snorting half of Colombia through your nose, you must be cool; or you can just go into rehab and everyone calls you brave.

If you're forced to go outside in the pouring rain and spark up a little LEGAL narcotic to get you through someone being a total idiot and people still resent you for daring to have a problem; I think there's a small chance we've got our priorities wrong.

I'm just waiting for Gordon Brown to bring out all the apartheid signs with "smoking" instead of "coloured".

Fact : Smokers donate about 30 million pounds to the NHS per year. Smokers use less than a million.

/rant over

I used to think about adding tobacco as my one vice, given that I naturally avoid alcohol, narcotics and porn. Then I realised that tobacco has no natural balancing agent for what it does to you on all levels in this world. So now I appear to be a dangerous badass, but actually have no vices. Its not even a conscious effort, its just that none of that stuff attracts me.
(I'm 18 and a Uni student)

Nothing against smoking/smokers but I have/had been Asthmatic so I don't smoke but have no problem being around people currently smoking I usually sit/stand upwind or if it's not filling the room ...

P.S. Sorry you all lost the smoking section in certain public places that's total bull.

Flunk:
I don't smoke neither do any of my "gamer friends".

A note to anyone who has posted that smoking relaxes them: It only does that because you are addicted to nicotine. If you had never smoked at all you would be that relaxed all the time. Why pay someone to slowly kill you?

Anything can be a relaxent if it's a comforting activity but some like smoking just happen to have a chemical reaction to boot. Some ex-smokers can feel more relaxed just by holding an unlit cigarette to thier lips.

P.P.S. How many of you smokers have had a "Smoking is bad for you!" speech while smoking from a total stranger?