a question to all you smokers out there...

[stokemaveric]

why do yoiu smoke at all???

[sandyRoe]

No matter what people say, it's an addiction.

[ummmm]

Regardless of what they say I don't believe smokers enjoy it. They enjoy relieving their craving.

[tiggerblue10]

I used to enjoy smoking a few years back but gave up as my friends dad had lung cancer. I'm glad I've stopped though, my clothes and hands don't stink anymore.

[anneasquith]

good for you tigger, and a great reason to give up, even better now you have your baby.

[tiggerblue10]

Exactly Anne, its not good for a baby to be surrounded by smoke and I feel a lot more healther since then :o)

[B00]

<potters in, sees the thread long dead, blows a few smoke rings- potters off out again>

[poodicat]

Hi stoke its addictive like any other,i am a ex smoker of some years,and i know how hard it was for me to stop..

[jackles]

i grew up in a house full of smokers. cinemas and buses full of smoke.shops ,restaurants trains;every where full of smoke.if passive smoking is as bad as they say half my generation would be dropping like flies!

[snags]

''Regardless of what they say I don't believe smokers enjoy it. They enjoy relieving their craving''

Doh... so they enjoy it...

[boxtops]

agree with sandy, it's an addiction. OH stopped when he had to, for an operation, but started again afterwards.

[vulcan]

It is amazing how the whole attitude to smoking has changed over the years. During my time in the RAF I spent time on Christmas Island in the Pacific, every few months tea chests full of cigarettes would arrive from Britain, courtesy of customs & Excise. Everybody received 400 cigarettes free, even the non smokers who quickly traded them.
However the strangest story I know was told to me by the person concerned. She was a nurse working in a cancer ward in the thirties and went to her doctor with a sore throat. He said this was caused by whatever the cancer treatment was at the time and told her to smoke. She started and never stopped until her recent death at the age of 93.