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SMOKING AT HOME
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
I HAVE A WIFE, AN AFRICAN GRAY, A ROSEBREASTED COCKATOO (BOTH ARE PARROTS), AND A SMALL POODLE. WE ALL SMELL LIKE CIGARS. OCASSIONALLY SOME WISE ASS WHO ISN'T PAYING MY MORTGAGE OR MY CAR PAYMENTS WILL PASS BY ME WHEN I AM WALKING THE DOG, AND WILL SAY "YOUR DOG SMELLS LIKE A CIGAR" TO WHICH I RESPOND "LIKE A GOOD CIGAR" PEOPLE THAT VISIT MY HOME FOR THE FIRST TIME WILL MENTION THE SMELL OF CIGAR IN THE AIR, ON THE FURNITURE AND IN THE CARPET AND ASK TO LOOK AT MY HUMIDORS, AND GUESS WHAT, THEY ARE QUICKLY LIGHTING UP AND ENJOYING A CIGAR. THE HOUSE SMELLS LIKE PEOPLE LIVE THERE AND NOT LIKE ROOM SPRAY. INCIDENTALLY SOME CHAP IN IOWA HAND CRAFTS HUMIDORS FOR ABOUT $150, AND IT IS THE BEST LOOKING ONE I HAVE EVER SEEN. IF ANYONE WANTS HIS INFO CONTACT [email protected] AND I'LL PASS IT ALONG.
aberdeen Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 06-11-1999
Posts: 741
you know it is much more dangerous to live in a home with a bird than with someone who smokes cigarettes. No kidding! Even the left centered EPA a few years back released some reports classifying carcinogens, tobacco smoke rated a C, and inconclusive of the potential harm it could cause. By the EPA's own report, birds in a house rated as the most dangerous, much more than tobacco smoke, apparently because of the bird droppings. So why don't we ever hear about that, especially when more dangerous than second hand cigaretter smoke? Parrots haven't been politicized. And when I say dangerous, don't take me wrong, I mean birds are more dangerous, that still doesn't mean go out and shoot them, the risks are still small, but the risks of second hand smoke even less.
penzt8 Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 06-05-2000
Posts: 1,771
I've nearly completed my cigar room. Although it has been functional for quite some time, it's finally starting to look like something. I started about a year ago when I bought my new house. I had the builder frame out a room over the garage and I 've done the rest. Thanksgiving weekend I finally got the carpet and padding in. Last weekend I finished the the floor in front of the door with laminated wood flooring. All that's left is to put the base moulding and door trim up and it will be complete. I brought in all my stuff (TV, surround sound stereo, DVD player, etc) and bought some new furniture. I'm still waiting for the two leather recliners to be delivered. They're suppose to be here before Christmas. Life is good.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
PENZT8: YOU ARE TRULY A RENAISSANCE PERSON. YOU ARE DESTINED TO HAVE A LIFE OF JOY. STRANGERS WILL PASS YOU ON THE STREET AND WONDER WHAT THEIR IS ABOUT YOU THAT SHINES FROM WITHIN. CLOUDS WILL OPEN FOR YOU AND YOU WILL WALK THROUGH RAIN AND NOT GET WET.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
ABERDEEN: ARE YOU SUGGESTING I SMOKE GAMINE AND ZANA? (MY TWO BIRDS) REMEMBER MINERS USED TO USE CANARYS TO DETECT GAS IN THE CAVES. IF THEIR WAS A PROBLEM THE BIRDS WOULD DIE. MY THREE CANARYS SING TO THE MUSIC OF THE SMOKE.
hegemonic Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 01-17-2000
Posts: 1,294
I live in an open 3BR apartment (top floor of a two-family home) and I smoke at home. I don't have a problem with the smell of cigar smoke because I dispose of my cigar butts as soon as I'm done smoking. I light scented candles and the smell of cigars clears in about a day or two, just in time for me to smoke again ;) In the summer, with the cross breeze of the windows, the smell leaves in about 5 hours. None of my guests have ever complained about the smell of cigar smoke (including my sisters and mother!) and few of my guests even smoke. As per the fiancee's take on my cigars, sometimes she smokes them herself and can't see what the big deal is when she sees the posts on this board about your other halves forbidding you to do so in your own homes. We feel empathy for you gentlemen that have to go to great lengths just to enjoy a good stick now and then. p.s. I don't smoke in the bedroom, can't stand the smell when I'm trying to sleep, it keeps me up :)
BrentM01 Offline
#7 Posted:
Joined: 05-30-2000
Posts: 343
I used to be a cigarette smoker, up until about 3 years go. I realized that it wasn't just the taste of the cigarette that I liked, half of it was the habit of lighting up, that first puff, that halo of smoke above my head. Since I stopped smoking cigarettes, I feel like a million bucks. I gained about 20 pounds, which I really needed to do and can breath much easier. I never gave up smoking cigars. I love the aroma as well as the variety and the friendships that I have made along the way. I just don't inhale and it's not even a thought in my head. I can't STAND ex-cigarette smokers (myself not included). They're a bunch of psychotic and frenzied group of people who complain about the smell of ANY tobacco products due to their own problems with addiction. There is NO QUESTION that I was addicted to cigarettes and the nicotine they contain, but I will NEVER harass anyone else about their choice of tobacco products. Now, as an ex-smoker,I find cigarette smoke to be unquestionably the foulest smell I have ever encountered and I don't miss it one bit. I defend my right to smoke cigars, I just don't force the smell on other people. My lodge for cigar smoking is now in the basement of out house. It's warm with a slight breeze from outside and there's a nice recliner where I can read and enjoy a good cup of coffee. What more could a guy ask for?......Brent
aberdeen Offline
#8 Posted:
Joined: 06-11-1999
Posts: 741
as the term addiction is defined, I don't think cigarettes are addicting, habit forming yes, but a big difference, and nicotine again under the definition of addiction can not be ascribed as such. Also to the above poster, I am not saying birds in themselves are dangerous, and had absolutely nothing to do with a canary in a cave, aren't my post clear enough to not be taken out of context? I am saying the droppings of domestic birds are considered a much higher carcinogenic than second hand tobacco smoke.
RICKAMAVEN Offline
#9 Posted:
Joined: 10-01-2000
Posts: 33,248
ABERDEEN IT WAS IN JEST THAT I SPOKE.
CL Offline
#10 Posted:
Joined: 02-08-2000
Posts: 855
Penzt8: If you can, please post pictures of your room. Sounds great! We can all watch with envy.
Slimboli Offline
#11 Posted:
Joined: 07-09-2000
Posts: 16,139
Sorry ... but I beg to differ. Nicotine has been clinically proven to be more addicting than heroin ... look at how hard it is to quit for some people, and the withdrawls they go through.
aberdeen Offline
#12 Posted:
Joined: 06-11-1999
Posts: 741
if so, then why are there social smokers? Those that can take it or leave it? I smoke a cigarette now and then, I don't smoke them when sick or when I simply don't feel like having one, and there are many others like me, this simply doesn't fit the definition of addiction, for if nicotine was so addictive as you say, how can you explain the many people who are social smokers?
BrentM01 Offline
#13 Posted:
Joined: 05-30-2000
Posts: 343
Clinically speaking, yes, there are those who are much more susceptable to differing forms of addiction or dependancy if you like. It is a fact that children of alcoholics are much more likely to have problems with addiction. I think the facts about nicotine addiction speak for themself. This country has spent billions of dollars arguing that same question about "social smokers" with no real clear-cut answer. One answer is for sure and that is the conspiracy by tobacco companies to continually increase the amounts of harmful substances in cigarettes that in themselves are addictive.
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