July 21, 2003
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Do you smoke cigarettes?

Nope. Thats one bad habit ive managed to avoid.

Talia, 25
Tallahassee, FL USA

Not now. I was a heavy smoker for 35 years but stopped because I didn't like belonging to a peer group of stupid people.

Jill, 61
Saylorsburg, PA USA

Yes. They've got a pretty good hold on me. I thoroughly enjoy each one of the 10 per day that I allow myself. It's a rotten stinking ucky habit among many other types of rotten stinking ucky habits in this world. I'm considerate as hell where my smoking is concerned, but I don't take kindly to lectures. I suppose if this vice, tied in with all else that I am, makes me an intolerable ogre of some sort, then best to stay far, far away.

Fisch, 47
Preston, CT USA

NO.

Karen, 23
Ames, IA USA

I quit in 1975. My husband still smokes,not usually in the house, though. I wish he'd quit too.

Judy, 62
Easton, KS USA

No.

Tam

Yep. Both my wife and I do. Serious consideration to quitting soon however.

Kevin, 35
Sugar Hill, GA USA

About 2 or 3 times a year I have a cigarette with a drink.

Laura, 38
Lowell, MA USA

No. I would but too much of a waste of money.

Laney, 60
TX USA

I've had about 5 cigarettes in my entire life and I was either extremely drunk or spinning out of control.

Felicia, 37
Lowell, MA USA

Occasionally, but I don't make a habit of it - I tend to smoke a full packet in a day and then go weeks without any. The last time I smoked was at the beginning of July.

Aly, 17
Cardiff UK

Nope. I have smoked a few cigarettes in my life, but never regularly, not lately, and may or may not ever do so again.

Cristin, 25
Frisco, TX USA

Only somtimes when I am out drinking with friends and I want one. Other than that, nope!

Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA

I quit for a couple weeks once...

A-Dog, 20
Eugene, OR USA

Gross no. Why would anyone intentionally do that to their bodies?

Stephanie, 27
TX USA

No, just the occasional small cigar (Al Capone's).

Alias Irrelevante

I've never smoked.

Jane, 63
West Linn, OR USA

Not any more. I smoked off and on for about 10 years. Salem Slim Lights. Menthol. I still have cravings every now and again even though I quit smoking almost six years ago. I quit cold turkey - no patch or anything. I couldn't go to visit my grandmother - who was dying of lung cancer - smelling like cigarette smoke. She never said a word to me and I never smoked in front of her. She smoked for 50 years. She quit about eight years before she was diagnosed. When you are young it is impossible to see the future, but I would advise teens and young folks visit someone with lung cancer. It is a horrible, lingering death. I don't mean to preach. Most folks say "well, I'm going to die of something..." Trust me, you don't want to die that way.

Cindy, 41
VA USA

No.

Reba, 57
Gaithersburg, MD USA

No. I never had the urge to start, and now I'm very glad that I didn't.

Cathie, 53
Novi, MI USA

 

You know I do. Coffee and cigarettes. I would love to quit though.

KarenNJ, 25
Milltown, NJ USA

I smoked for five years (high school) and then quite for five years (university). Then I started again this year and smoked for...about five months. I quit for four weeks, then had a relapse this Sunday. Since then I've been a non-smoker though. :)

Keri-Jade, 23
Brampton, Ontario CANADA

Nope

Ryan, 29
Riedlingen GERMANY

Yes, unfortunately. I smoked as a teenager. Quit in my early twenties and now I have been smoking on and off for the last 5 years. I just can not seem to quit permanently.

Janet, 45
E. Brunswick, NJ USA

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