Can smoking be "social"? (28)
simpleparadox: Many a profiles on dating sites say that the person whose profile u r visting smokes socially!
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
In a word......YES
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simpleparadox: Many a profiles on dating sites say that the person whose profile u r visting smokes socially!
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
There are two elements to this.
In profiles, I believe that smoking socially means exactly that. In a social environment.
Is smoking social?
Depends on who you are with?
In the UK it is banned from public places.
Where I live in Austria, it is not.
If I am with people who smoke then I will, if I am in a group with people who do not smoke then I will not.
I do not smoke in my house, car, I go outside.
So the smoking ban has not troubled me, because I do it at home.
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In a word....NO
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
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ooby_dooby: In a word....NO
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
Hmmm..I dunno: I do know someone who only smokes when she is out with other smokers...never smokes at home, in the car or whatever...so I guess that is, technically, "social" smoking...?
Me, I'm trying to quit....it's hard because I never quit anything in my life...not sure I want to start now...
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ooby_dooby: In a word....NO
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
No apology necessary.
But the question is there.
In our profiles.
A person who smokes three a day is addicted, same as a person who smokes 20 a day.
But a smoker who is respectful of those around them is a different matter.
It does not prove that a person is in denial about being addicted at all.
Like saying that a person who has a glass of wine each night, is in denial about being addicted.
An addiction is when the choice is taken away.
I do not smoke for days on end, usually when I have a drink and am with certain people.
Does that make me addicted to both?
Or am I in denial?
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You have to have someone to pass the spliff to.
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Sommerauer71: No apology necessary.
But the question is there.
In our profiles.
A person who smokes three a day is addicted, same as a person who smokes 20 a day.
But a smoker who is respectful of those around them is a different matter.
It does not prove that a person is in denial about being addicted at all.
Like saying that a person who has a glass of wine each night, is in denial about being addicted.
An addiction is when the choice is taken away.
I do not smoke for days on end, usually when I have a drink and am with certain people.
Does that make me addicted to both?
Or am I in denial?
But the question is there.
In our profiles.
A person who smokes three a day is addicted, same as a person who smokes 20 a day.
But a smoker who is respectful of those around them is a different matter.
It does not prove that a person is in denial about being addicted at all.
Like saying that a person who has a glass of wine each night, is in denial about being addicted.
An addiction is when the choice is taken away.
I do not smoke for days on end, usually when I have a drink and am with certain people.
Does that make me addicted to both?
Or am I in denial?
I'm throwing stones from inside a glass house being addicted to caffeine (coffee) but I drank coffee since childhood. It use to be considered very bad for you but that didn't stop me. Fortunately the latest studies show coffee isn't nearly as bad as it was once thought so now I don't worry about it anymore.
Unlike you, if I was with a group of smokers I would be forced to leave which I have done more than once. Either go to another room or leave altogether. I've actually walked out of a concert that I paid $25.00 for tickets for because virtually everybody in the place was smoking.
I don't take issue with people who smoke, I take issue with the insidious tobacco plant itself. It has taken a lot of wonderful friends and people well before their time.
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ooby_dooby: In a word....NO
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
Nicotine is a powerful addictive narcotic....Period!
Sorry but claiming to smoke "socially" is a cop out. It proves the smoker is in denial about being addicted to nicotine.
so that is to say you can't be a social drinker, too??
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shipoker55: In a word......YES
I am a total social smoker and drinker. I live alone and do not smoke or drink at home. I do, however, drink and smoke a cigar when I am at karaoke. This being my only social event. Sometimes I only drink soda ans still smoke a cigar. Sometimes I drink gin and tonic and don't smoke at all. You can, indeed be a social smoker
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simpleparadox: Many a profiles on dating sites say that the person whose profile u r visting smokes socially!
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
No Smoking allowed on my turf or time........
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Whilst it is imo one of the most disgusting of habits it can be considered sociable depending on your social group however keep in mind that this does not make it suddenly any better or worse a habit it just means that you are among likeminded people
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Sommerauer71:
Where is acceptable that many of our working men's clubs in Britain have been closed down, because of the smoking ban? .
Where is acceptable that many of our working men's clubs in Britain have been closed down, because of the smoking ban? .
In Ireland a few places have closed down not because of the ban but because people are getting sick and tired of paying extortionate amounts for a night out
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crotalus_p: In Ireland a few places have closed down not because of the ban but because people are getting sick and tired of paying extortionate amounts for a night out
Yes, here too, but I could not give a toss about pubs, I do however, care what happens to our old hard working class boys, who enjoyed a couple of pints with their pals and a ciggie and now they have nowhere to go.
Here is some information for you, it you sell specialist cigars, you are exempt from the smoking ban.
Prison you can smoke, Houses of Parliament or in an institiution.
So, you can become a government official, break the law or claim that you are having a nervous breakdown, but you can still smoke, only in Britain.
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simpleparadox: Many a profiles on dating sites say that the person whose profile u r visting smokes socially!
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?
Maybe they mean smoking a joint when they socialize..
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In Ireland you have to be in a prison or a secure unit , they used to have smoking rooms in the hospitals but now every one has to go outside you can see a stack of patients outside the main door’s still in their dressing gowns with their drips and catheter bags 
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Quite often the very act of smoking whilst in company
is preceeded by a social gesture.
Most smokers would offer others one of their cigarettes
before lighting up.
This seems pretty social to me.
is preceeded by a social gesture.
Most smokers would offer others one of their cigarettes
before lighting up.
This seems pretty social to me.
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crotalus_p: In Ireland you have to be in a prison or a secure unit , they used to have smoking rooms in the hospitals but now every one has to go outside you can see a stack of patients outside the main door’s still in their dressing gowns with their drips and catheter bags
And rightly so................
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I was in France when the smoking ban was imposed.Apparently being forced to go outside to smoke has actually engineered the circumstances where people strike up a conversation,and this has led to relationships being formed.
Gauloises have a certain "je ne sais quoi" over Woodbines anyway .
Gauloises have a certain "je ne sais quoi" over Woodbines anyway .
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gongman: I was in France when the smoking ban was imposed.Apparently being forced to go outside to smoke has actually engineered the circumstances where people strike up a conversation,and this has led to relationships being formed.
Gauloises have a certain "je ne sais quoi" over Woodbines anyway .
Gauloises have a certain "je ne sais quoi" over Woodbines anyway .
Nothing wrong with 'Willy Woodbines' my friend.
I cut my smoking teeth on those little devils.
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Smoking indeed is an adult choice. Yet, I wonder whether there can be such a thing as "smoking socially"? Can smoking really be social, even if it is to socialize with those who smoke?