do u like to smoke? (95)

Thank you so much all of you smokers. Because of you I have earned a decent living for the last 26 years.

I did not like to smoke when I did. That is why I gave up. It was hard for a while, nearly year, I would say. Nicotine must be more addictive than alcohol, because few people are able to smoke only when they chose. Most get addicted and smoke one after other. I was certainly addicted.

But there are people who consciously like to smoke. Some of them are addicted and some not. I don't mind as long as they don't disturb others. I would not tolerate a man smoking inside house, no way. But if he goes out, that's fine with me.

I have absolutely no problems with non-smokers.

...............What is striking in the bulk of the material on smoking motivation is the emergence of a profile of the nonsmoker. Some characteristics of the nonsmoker crystallized more definitively from these studies than those of the smoker, the original subject of investigation. This is not to say that the nonsmokers share a single personality type or display an exclusive set of identifying characteristics. Rather, the profile is to be viewed as a group tendency on the part of the nonsmokers to exhibit particular traits more frequently.

The consensus of various studies indicates the nonsmoker to be of middle-class origin rather than in either the upper or lower classes, reflecting the mark of middle-class respectability and the persistence of the Puritanical trait. Seemingly, he considers smoking one of the small vices to which the flesh is heir, is often pious and a devout churchgoer, and is frequently an abstainer from alcohol. While the nonsmoker tends to be dependable, purposeful, hard-working, stable in marriage, and quietly progressive in general outlook, he is less gregarious and sociable than the smoker. He is described as being more often inner-directed or an introvert, and is, accordingly, immoderately preoccupied with his own thought processes and other internal states. More rigid in personality than the smoker, the nonsmoker is attracted to scientific rather than business studies, and during his adolescence he tends to be more seriously absorbed in his studies and academic achievements...........

...................Notable distinctions between smokers and nonsmokers apparently exist in the realm of psychological and personality features. Several studies stress the greater degree of extroversion of the smokers. They are described as being more energetic, restless, and more externally oriented than the nonsmokers. Possessing more "neurotic" traits, smokers tend to show more signs of psychological tension and psychosomatic symptoms than do the nonsmokers. In the words of one researcher, "the group of smokers appears to contain more of the men who are energetic, searching for aims and purposes, verbal, and perhaps, although less stable, more interesting."..................


.............Despite the inherent limitations in the research done thus far, it has become increasingly clear that smoking, the form of smoking adopted, and abstention from smoking are structured reflections of very complex forces, innate and environmental, in constant counterplay. Rather than a superficial habit overlaid indiscriminately upon various persons, smoking appears to be a response to a wide variety of personality and behavioral characteristics which have their origin, in part, in the biological or genetic makeup of the individual.

This opens up important and far-reaching implications for the highly controversial subject of the association of smoking and lung cancer.............................

thts exactly wht i thought

In reply to Stringman

hiya stringman
could be...
Sarnia was on television last summer as having the worst air in Canada....
this is just one of the many articles on it online.

such a pity....really.
i really looked into the area last summer as i was thinking about moving there. i have a very dear friend from 'wally's burg' (grin)
and he had mentioned to me.

you know, i lived in cincinnati for years..and left there with many allergies i got while there. it's a shame that big business sees us as soooo expendable.

ah come down off ur high horse man, ppl die every single day 4 numerous reasons...and ta label some1 thick or stupid, or less intelligent than non smokers is a bit thick in itself...think about it

hey jeepers....
and you said you weren't going to lecture me today...lol

Did I say anything ?

did i watch the video...

(nnooooo......xo)