Smoking, Dipping, Drinking, Burning: Why or Why Not?

[BunnyHardaway]

Re: Smoking, Dipping, Drinking, Burning: Why or Why Not?

Cigarettes = Never
Chew = Never
Cigars = Sparingly, mostly when drunk
Alcohol = Yes, please
Weed = Sparingly

[mudman]

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To me, this is a simple answer:

The majority of people do not smoke or dip. Now, if you go ask those people what they think of smoking or dipping. The response will most likely not be favorable. The vast majority of people who don't smoke think smelling like smoke = smelling like ****.....and they think even worse of dipping. Do you really want to be someone that most other people find disgusting?

As far as alcohol goes, that's your choice. You are either going to drink or you aren't and nothing anybody says on here will change that.

[CeltBhoy33]

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To me, this is a simple answer:

The majority of people do not smoke or dip. Now, if you go ask those people what they think of smoking or dipping. The response will most likely not be favorable. The vast majority of people who don't smoke think smelling like smoke = smelling like ****.....and they think even worse of dipping. Do you really want to be someone that most other people find disgusting?

As far as alcohol goes, that's your choice. You are either going to drink or you aren't and nothing anybody says on here will change that.

Ouch that was harsh. I feel my habit might be disgusting to others but as a person I don't feel I am disgusting.I dress well, I lift weights look like an average teen age actually bigger than most (muscle wise) and I enjoy chewing. I have a pinch in right now, I think if people enjoy doing it don't put them down over it. But eh never mind wouldn't like to get in to it about that.

[WazzuRC]

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I used to chew a little in HS and a bit my freshman year of college but then stopped. Couldn't stand having all the tobacco grains in my lips and teeth. Now they have pouches, and working closing with 4 guys who all still chew it's tough to not have one every now again. Especially working in baseball. During the winter I don't have any, but starting from now through about September, I'll pop in a pouch every two weeks or so. Calms me down big time during the stress of the season.

Never smoked a cigarette or cigar in my life and probably never will.

I smoked a fair amount of weed in college but that's pretty much over now. I'll burn every once in awhile, maybe 3-4 times a year.

Alcohol is a different story. I freaking love beer. Not Bud Light and Busch and that **** anymore like in college, good beer. I'll have a few beers every week but I really need to curb it. Too many calories in good beer. I'm starting to drink more of the hard stuff instead. It's just too fun for me to not go to a bar after work occasionally, grab a few beers with some buddies, and watch the game.

[bluengold34_OS]

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To me, this is a simple answer:

The majority of people do not smoke or dip. Now, if you go ask those people what they think of smoking or dipping. The response will most likely not be favorable. The vast majority of people who don't smoke think smelling like smoke = smelling like ****.....and they think even worse of dipping. Do you really want to be someone that most other people find disgusting?

As far as alcohol goes, that's your choice. You are either going to drink or you aren't and nothing anybody says on here will change that.

As I stated I do chew, but do not condone it at all. I will say this about worrying about what other people choose to think about what I do. I don't give rats *** about douche bags who are so concerned about what I do.............I'll be damned if I start living my life to please other people. I respect other people and would never make it a point of emphasis to "gross" someone out with my habit, but anyone who feels that my bad habits, or lifestyle choices are their concern, can straight up kiss my ***!!

Here is the other problem I have with this statement, since when is someones life so clean and perfect, thats it cool to judge other people....Thats half the problem today. Everyone is so quick to judge other people, when if we all realized that not a single one of us are perfect, and should work on our tolerance of all things.


Conformity is not how I live my life!

[AUChase]

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I work with a chick that dips.

I hate to play the sexist card, but for real.. it just grosses me out. We were in the break room a few days ago and everyone was discussing dip, and she was saying something about how she had to swallow some because she couldn't spit in front of a customer. I almost puked just thinking about it.

I'm not judgin' her, she can do as she pleases because she has just as much right to as any man has.. but it doesn't change the fact that I thought it was pretty nasty.

[CeltBhoy33]

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As I stated I do chew, but do not condone it at all. I will say this about worrying about what other people choose to think about what I do. I don't give rats *** about douche bags who are so concerned about what I do.............I'll be damned if I start living my life to please other people. I respect other people and would never make it a point of emphasis to "gross" someone out with my habit, but anyone who feels that my bad habits, or lifestyle choices are their concern, can straight up kiss my ***!!

Here is the other problem I have with this statement, since when is someones life so clean and perfect, thats it cool to judge other people....Thats half the problem today. Everyone is so quick to judge other people, when if we all realized that not a single one of us are perfect, and should work on our tolerance of all things.


Conformity is not how I live my life!

What do you dip pal? I prefer cheap Grizzly Wintergreen, I really can't afford the pricey skoal.

[Jonesy]

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Cigarettes, hell no. Tried a few, and while I get a good buzz off of them, just the thought of my son and wife seeing me do it is enough to make me not do it again. Plus, ya smell like balls after. Cigars, I do have occasionally, as I enjoy the various tastes and flavors out there. We've got a really nice cigar shop down the street, and i'll head down and grab a Nat Sherman once in a while. Especially when the weather warms up.

Drinking, yeah, I do it quite often. Not in excess, aside from the occasional get together with friends or when me and the wife get a night alone when my son stays with my mother for the night. I've really gotten into micro-brew's thanks to the local wine cellar down the road, which carries a TON of imported and micro-brew beers. I'll have usually one a night with dinner, and occasionally a second afterward.

My weakness used to be whiskey back in college. I spent many a night with a bottle of Jack in my hand at parties, and by the end of the night, it was typically either finished or lost. It was fun, but I really got sick of having horrible hangovers, as it started to effect my grades.

That's pretty much the same as me. No cigarettes, a very rare cigar (only a few times a year for me) and occasional big drinking sessions but usually just a glass of wine/beer or 2 with dinner. The Mrs and I still like to get away and get drunk together and party like the old days occasionally but it doesn't happen much these days.

I'm finding the older i get the more i drink for taste (good scotch/ wiskey, wines and micro breweries) and less to get drunk.

Never tried dipping or even seen it done, it's not very popular here in Australia but it does sound pretty gross. It's basically just chewing on Tobacco and spitting it out isn't it?

[bluengold34_OS]

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What do you dip pal? I prefer cheap Grizzly Wintergreen, I really can't afford the pricey skoal.

Thats what I use also.......and it has a lot less tobacco in it then Skoal. I was sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley and a guy asked to bum one from me, so I say yes of course. About 15 minutes later, he taps my back and say's " Man, this is like having nothing in my mouth" So it has just enough to keep the old urges down

That's pretty much the same as me. No cigarettes, a very rare cigar (only a few times a year for me) and occasional big drinking sessions but usually just a glass of wine/beer or 2 with dinner. The Mrs and I still like to get away and get drunk together and party like the old days occasionally but it doesn't happen much these days.

I'm finding the older i get the more i drink for taste (good scotch/ wiskey, wines and micro breweries) and less to get drunk.

Never tried dipping or even seen it done, it's not very popular here in Australia but it does sound pretty gross. It's basically just chewing on Tobacco and spitting it out isn't it?

Yes , thats what it is. It can be very gross, if the person doing it is not discreet about it. I work in a bank, as a banker, and I have to be incredibly discreet......and keep my teeth nice and clean throughout the day by brushing and mouthwash!

If you have not tried it, I would highly suggest keep going down that path

[Bellsprout]

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I had a kid in one of my classes who would sit next to me with an empty 1 liter Mountain Dew bottle. He would spit into that bottle. He just had it sitting out. It was all brownish, and damned if the thing wasn't half full by the start of class at 3pm.

SO GROSS.

[BurghFan]

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Smoking: Lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, Altzheimers disease, hypertension
Dipping: Disgusting, oral cancer, throat cancer
Drinking: Tastes awful
Burning: ?

[AUChase]

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I love that kind of thinking, Burgh.

[BurghFan]

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Guess I'll share a few stories now.

Tobacco smoke makes me physically sick and is the only thing I know of capable of making me lose my appetite. My very strong aversion to it is probably only heightened by the fact this smoking likely contributed to my fathers death from heart disease.

I remember one New Years when I was a kid my dad let me have a sip of his beer at midnight. I also remember spending the next five minutes at the kitchen sink rinsing my mouth out trying to get rid of the taste. Once I turned 21, a couple of my cousins were determined to find some alcolholic beverage that I liked, but everything I tried tasted awful. Even Rum & Coke with very little rum tasted awful to me. My Junior year in college my roommate was also trying to find something that I liked. He bought some mudslides at a local liquor store and they were okay at first, but I got sick of the taste after a few sips. My sister even tried to trick me into drinking alcohol at my cousins wedding. She told me to let her get me a coke next time I needed a refill because she thought the bartender was hot though I knew she only wanted to secretly get me a rum and coke right from the start. I drank the whole thing just to get her off my back. At the time she was one of those people who didn't think it was possible to have fun without getting drunk (which she did at the wedding and our mom wasn't to happy about it)

My 3rd year in college (I was technically a sophomore) I was supposed to be in a quad with 3 of my friends (actually only 2 of them were my friends, the other was the cousin of one of them), but one of the guys left school to join the navy. Well, during the summer I get a call from some kid telling me that he was going to be our 4th roommate replacing the guy who joined the navy. I wasn't to happy about that especially since I found out from him rather than from Res-Life that they'd put someone in that spot. The Quads in that building had a common area with 2 bedrooms coming off of it each with bunk beds and since my friend was bunking with his cousin, I would be bunking with the new guy. Well, I got there and he'd already moved but wasn't in the room when I was moving in. On his desk was what I initially thought was a nearly empty bottle of coke though my mom later informed me that the contents were actually tobacco spit. Needless to say, I was quite infuriated and stormed over to Res-Life to complain. Unfortunately, they only offered to move me into another room despite the fact that I was originally supposed to be in that room and he had been stuck in there over the summer. Fortunately the guy was rarely around and ended up moving to a different dorm on his own a few days later so he could be with some of his friends.

[mudman]

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As I stated I do chew, but do not condone it at all. I will say this about worrying about what other people choose to think about what I do. I don't give rats *** about douche bags who are so concerned about what I do.............I'll be damned if I start living my life to please other people.

First off, you act like I care what people like you do. Why would you think I care at all?...because I think that dipping is disgusting?...because I think carrying around a bottle of spit is disgusting? I don't give two ****s about what you do and me thinking that it's disgusting does not constitute me giving a **** about you.

I respect other people and would never make it a point of emphasis to "gross" someone out with my habit, but anyone who feels that my bad habits, or lifestyle choices are their concern, can straight up kiss my ***!!

Also, yet again, I didn't say, nor imply, that your habits are my concern. It would be nice if people could post something without people like you putting words in their mouth and acting like they said things they didn't nor were they even implying.

Here is the other problem I have with this statement, since when is someones life so clean and perfect, thats it cool to judge other people....Thats half the problem today. Everyone is so quick to judge other people, when if we all realized that not a single one of us are perfect, and should work on our tolerance of all things.

Now I've judged you??????

I commented on a habit, period. That's it, nothing more nothing less. I in no way indicated that you were less of a human being or anything remotely related to that.

Now, HERE's half the problem today. Way too many people, like you, are overly sensitive and get all offended and jump to conclusions.

Conformity is not how I live my life!

Actually, you're just like all the other overly sensitive people in today's society. If you truly didn't give a crap what others thought of your habit, you wouldn't have responded (actually, you didn't even respond to what I said, you responded to a bunch of things I didn't say). You'd have moved on w/o thinking about it.

Congratulations, you're just like most of the country and it's very clear you do care what others think, which again, makes you just like most everybody else.

[OSUFan_88]

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I will say this:

There is nothing, NOTHING, like smoking a cigar. It can be so smooth and so relaxing...

Damnit, I want a cigar now.

Edit: I also want to try a pipe. Not because I think it would taste good or anything, but because it would be badass to smoke a pipe. I guess I should specify, I want to smoke a pipe with legal substances...