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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 12, 2008 21:07:10 GMT -5
I like the idea too Aimee. I just don't know if that would help. Maybe we should just show him xrays and stuff of people's lungs that have smoked and everything. It's not just throat cancer you can get. My husbands grandmother is dieing from mouth cancer because she smoked.
Yes it is his decision but it doesn't mean I have to like it. I am alot older then him and can lecture him all I want.....
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Post by *~Aimee~* or Mrs. Grint on Jul 13, 2008 23:43:37 GMT -5
Exactly!!! Where can we find him?? lmao
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Post by Leigh on Jul 18, 2008 3:27:19 GMT -5
Smoking is so gross. Like someone was saying earlier in this thread, it's really annoying when the smokers at work go take their breaks. Being a non-smoker, I don't get a break at all, even if I'm working all day. I usually try to stay away from the people after they've smoked, just because it smells awful. In Oklahoma, you can't smoke in public places or restaurants (unless they have a seperate room with a seperate vent system). Thank Goodness! We were at Frontier City (theme park) one time, and this lady was smoking, and my friend's mom went up to her and was like "This is a non-smoking area, so I would appreciate it if you would stop polluting my kids' lungs with that cancer stick you've got stuck in your mouth." The lady replied "You don't work here!" And then my friend's mom said "No, but I won't hesitate to find someone who does." It was great.
I'm really lucky to have a group of friends who feel the same way (or close to it) about smoking/drugs/alcohol/sex, so I don't really have any pressure. What was really funny was when the one friend who has had sex was telling her mom, and her mom was saying stuff about it being okay and she knew there was peer pressure, my friend said "No! You don't understand, with the people I hang around, there's pressure NOT to have sex." Pretty much the same with smoking. I'm sure if any of us started to, the others would grab the pack, throw it in the trash, and then throw nasty food over it or something.
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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 18, 2008 14:01:18 GMT -5
That is great that your friends are like that Leigh.. I wish that when I was growing up I had friends like that, with the smoking stuff, I am not saying that all my friends smoked but no one would stop you if you did smoke, so in a way they were approving of it by not doing anything.
I don't think it is peer pressure not to have sex or to have sex. I think that is what we like to say if we do or don't do something that our friends do. We put the pressure on ourselves. I hope that doesn't sound mean. I guess since I am older I view things differently now then I did when I was a teenager.
I love what you said your mom said at that park. I can't stand it when people smoke around me. We were over my sister-in-laws house once for a picnic. Well everyone except my husband and I smoke. Everyone went into the kitchen and were talking and smoking. I literally walked out and went downstairs with the kids. I couldn't breathe with 5 adults smoking. I even walked out of the kitchen coughing. I looked at my husband as he just sat there talking with everyone. Oh it was so disgusting. I smelled like smoke the rest of the night, that I actually went home and took a shower.
I think there are more people now a days that don't smoke and would prefer to eat where there is no smoking.
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Post by Leigh on Jul 20, 2008 14:15:45 GMT -5
About the peer pressure - that may be so. I've heard it put like that before, but it's such a common saying. I think it does help a little bit if doing it or not doing it (Smoking, I mean. Or anything else really) is considered cool to your friends. Obviously, most people want to fit in. But, yeah, that choice would, ultimately, be your own. If you chose to stand out, then there's not that pressure.
I know I would prefer to eat where there is no smoking. You end up smelling like smoke and somehow the food seems to taste worse (which I'm guessing is due to the fact that smelling and tasting are related or however you would like to put it. Gah, my speech/composition of this sucks. I'm sorry.)
EW! That's so gross and way too much smoke in one area. I would take a shower, too.
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Post by *~Aimee~* or Mrs. Grint on Jul 21, 2008 5:37:11 GMT -5
"This is a non-smoking area, so I would appreciate it if you would stop polluting my kids' lungs with that cancer stick you've got stuck in your mouth." The lady replied "You don't work here!" And then my friend's mom said "No, but I won't hesitate to find someone who does." It was great. LMAO That sounds like my mom, and how I act at work. lol We had a sound guy at the Martina Mcbride concert last Friday and he was standing right behind me in the sound booth and I walked passed my superviser and into the booth and told him it was non smoking and he said "I'm with the band." I said "I dont care if you're with Elvis himself, if you smoke in here, you are going to have other people smoking and meaning I've got to go tell them to put it out. Now be a good tech and save me some time." He gave me a look and put it out. It was funny. Hey, I just extended his life spand by... 3 hours. lmao
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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 21, 2008 17:35:47 GMT -5
Lol... That is good that you were able to get him to stop even if only for a little bit..
I think it is a shame that some people don't stop until they are stricken with either cancer or emphysema and what ever else you could get.
Keep up the good work all us none smokers...!!!
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Post by Leigh on Jul 22, 2008 23:20:48 GMT -5
UGH, I know about the whole "don't quit until they have issues." My dad's girlfriend smokes. Her mom is sick (and almost died a few months ago) from smoking all her life, and Bonita's constantly saying "Oh, I'm going to quit..." but she's still smoking. It's pretty gross, and I always smell like smoke when I come back from visiting him. I absolutely hate it.
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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 24, 2008 6:19:23 GMT -5
Well Leigh maybe you should say something and ask her not to smoke around you. I don't know why people are so rude and just smoke with out asking everyone around them if they mind.
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Post by Leigh on Jul 27, 2008 0:51:12 GMT -5
I would, but it wouldn't help, since their entire house smells like it anyway. But, they're getting a new house, so hopefully, since she's trying to quit (supposedly), she'll smoke outside and not stink up the house. Doubtful, though.
We were busy one day at work, and the girl that smokes was like "I need a cigarette..." and then she looks at me and she's like "Don't you ever, ever, ever start smoking. Ever." Yeahhh... I mean, come one, when people who smoke regret starting to smoke, that should be a nice, clear signal that you don't want to smoke.
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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 27, 2008 8:43:24 GMT -5
Yes I agree about that Leigh. I know people always told me that about smoking. I think it should also be a sign to them to stop smoking too.
It would be nice if she did smoke outside. I never allowed smoking in my house and my mom respected that by smoking outside. Plus my in laws respected it too, especially those that smoke. The only one that didn't was my husband's grandfather. He has difficulty moving around too that I didn't get too upset about it but he hasn't been back to my house either..
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Post by Leigh on Jul 27, 2008 23:00:19 GMT -5
Yeah, but it'll be her house, not mine. I'll only live there every other weekend. Ugh. That's so depressing. I've never thought about my parents' divorce and re-marriages that way.
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Post by *~Aimee~* or Mrs. Grint on Jul 30, 2008 22:44:33 GMT -5
When my grandmother died 2 years ago (the one who got caught on fire from smoking) we had to clean out her apartment, well it had been almost a week since she had died and when we left, everything was gone.... the whole apartment still smelled like smoke. It was horrible!!!!!
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Post by nutz4hpotter6 on Jul 31, 2008 4:36:03 GMT -5
I don't think the smell of smoke ever gets out of a house.
I was out last night with people from work and all of a sudden some one lights a cigar. All of us were so turned off by it. There were about 15 people in our party and we all commented about it. We didn't say anything because you are allowed to smoke in the restaurant we were at. We are just glad that we had all finished eating by the time the guy with the cigar came in.
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Post by *~Aimee~* or Mrs. Grint on Jul 31, 2008 7:08:14 GMT -5
I'm ok with ciggerate smoke, weed smoke makes me sick to my stomach, and cigar smoke gives me a headach. It really sucks. And I can pick them out too. Daddy says I have a hound dog for picking out where the smokers are. lmao
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