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Anybody else feel cool smoking because the hair's long? Weird combo, I suppose, but I had to ask. It seems most of the dudes with the longer hair here in Denver also smoke.
I don't smoke.
Personally, I think it's minging. Makes your breath, clothes smell, gives you yellow teeth, can make your hair grow slower, nasty flemming sessions in the morning, increased visible aging, possability of eventual long term health problems, and the fact I'm into health. :)
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Nichol
I don't smoke and I do not allow smoking in my home or car. My personal opinion is that smoking is not cool, regardless of the smoker's hair length. Actually I have tobacco smoke allergy and one of the most unpleasant experience for me is when my hair and clothes smell of stale tobacco smoke after having been in a smoke-filled place.
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A Linux Longhair
It makes the hair smell DISGUSTING - and then there are the black lungs, the smokers cough, and a little old thing called Cancer...so my answer is NO...smoking never looks cool...in fact i think it makes you look like an idiot with no respect for your body...but that's just my opinion.
whatever one's hair length.
I agree. It's horrible just going into a pub and having the smell in your hair and on your skin afterwards just from passive smoking.
Sorry to any smokers out there - no hard feelings or anything but it really is my number one pet hate.
Well, I agree that cigarette smoke is disgusting, and in crowded places, absolutely. But I actually enjoy the smell of certain pipe tobaccos, and I don't smoke Salvia Divinorum in public (you only take one drag anyways).
I must agree Ball Guy, pipe tobaccoes and cigar smokes can smell delightful, pipes and cigars, they're the only time I don't mind somebody smoking around me. I just love the smell and I get a whole lot of it at re-enactments, though I get even more cigarette smoke there. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I smoke a pipe a couple of times a month, and the occasional Salvia Divinorum, but that's it.
Oh man, I'm dying to try that but I can't get it here - in the only country in the world to have made it illegal
for those who, like me, had no clue what that is:
http://www.sagewisdom.org/faq.html
I don't think smoking looks cool. In Ottawa the authorities have made smoking illegal in public indoor places, including bars. They are also rules on how far smokers have to stay from the doors of a building. You see groups of people out smoking during 'coffee break'. The sure look 'uncool' huddled 15ft/5m from the doors puffing away - especially in the wintertime! I have nothing against adults who want to smoke and I believe they should be free to do so - provided *I* don't have to also inhale smoke.
Smoking is a disgusting habit and should be made completely illegal, cigarettes that is. Pipes...well they are only for an occasional thing (I don't smoke at all, I'm just saying) such as historical English re-enactments when they used those clay pipes or Civil War re-enactments with the curvy pipes. Anywho, the main point...don't smoke. Why? Because...don't smoke! :D
Tobacco is not cool.
Of course, long hair has been associated with smoking something, but it's not tobacco!
I don't see anything really interesting about ciagarette smoking, but damned if long-stemmed pipes aren't the coolest thing in existence. : )
I keep thinkning of Gandalf in front of the fire...
"Riddles in the dark..."
Granted, it still isn't good for you, but I do think it looks quite cool.
Or Aragorn. : )
i just use a bong lol lol
peace cody
I guess I'm one of the few here that agree with you. Never took to cigarettes, but I've smoked a pipe since I was 14.
I personally don't smoke cigs. I've smoke a few a day when I was in HS, but I've since decided its not worth it.
Anyway, I do think there might be a slight correlation between smokers and longhairs, just because they are both considered somewhat rebellious. I think people who are attracted to longhair might also be attracted to cigs.
However, I would say that longhairs aren't significantly more likely to smoke.
Peace
I don't smoke cigs nor do I ever plan to start. I do, however, defend someone's right to do so. It bothers me when folks try to argue for them to be made illegal. Sure, it's great to have non-smoking bars, restraunts, hotel rooms, etc. But there are those out there who get something out of smoking. Sure, it's not healty, but life's all about balancing costs and benefits. The former being your health and money, the latter being the aquired taste, feeling of calmness, "cool look" (if you get off on that), etc. Why do people jump out of planes, drive race cars, go into boxing, etc. when there's such a risk to safety and health? If cigs should be made illegal, why not make McDonalds illegal as well? How about pepsi? None of these are all that good for your health. Where do you draw the line? It's a slippery slope.
Well, I don't smoke but I think that as adults people should not be forced into doing something in the name of democracy. Just like having long hair. However, I really hate the habit not so much because of the stink but because of all the litter most smokers generate with those stupid little cottonlike stick thingies. It cuts down on the very reason for smoking I think and if anything should be banned or made illegal its the filters. At work there is this 55 gal trash can 1/2 full of sand with a BIG sign that sez cigarette butts. Normally there will be more around it than in it. I hate having to constantly sweep up all that trash.
Then there's this ex smoker I asked how much he saved in the last week (5 days ) since he stopped. Dang! I said, and people complain about the price of gas.
I have a co-worker who smokes and was just diagnosed with cancer. It is all over his throat, tonsils, palate, etc. He has not been to work since receiving his diagnosis. If and when I ever see him again, and if the cancer is operable, I expect he will be missing a lot of tissue from inside his mouth, throat, etc. Even if they remove all of the cancer surgically there is no assurance that it won't come back later.
I have another co-worker of normal weight who smokes and just had a heart attack. Days after his heart attack he had triple-bypass surgery. There is a connection between smoking and heart disease as well, not to mention emphysema.
Yet another former co-worker just died of lung cancer within the past two weeks. He was a TV announcer who worked on Family Feud and was known for introducing RRRRRRRichard Dawson. Yeah, that guy.
The link between smoking and cancer and other diseases hadn't been established when my folks were growing up (WWII era) but as of 2004 the link has been known about for several decades. I am not a cancer patient but I have known several. Once you see the hell cancer patients go through with surgery, chemo, constant medical supervision, fear that it will spread, fear that you will not survive it, etc. it might change your mind about smoking. Once diagnosed, your life is all about cancer.
If all this talk doesn't change your mind and you think you have some special immunity to cancer, then you can certainly say you earned whatever health maladies may come your way. If this post sounds dire in its tone, it is nothing compared to the dire experience of having cancer, triple-bypass surgery, etc.
In addition to all that, many treatments for cancer cause your hair to fall out. ALL of it. Not cool for longhairs.
Bill
"In all things moderation".
There needs to be a distinction made in today's world between the use of something, and the ABuse of it. For example, wine is healthy for you, but if you overdo it you get sclerosis of the liver(and other problems). Eating is good, but too much of that will/can cause obesity, heart problems, and cancers. Tobacco smoke is the same. I know an 86 year old who's smoked 3 times a week nearly his whole life. Never had cancer or anything. I know a 33 year old who has smoked every day since about 16 and has already had one lung replaced.
That "Ball" Guy
Smoking accelerates male pattern baldness. And I had a dad who smoked 3 packs/day for 30 years and then had a heart-attack followed by quadruple bypass surgery. The last 20 years of his life were spent in and out of hospitals/Dr.'s offices. Having been witness to his slow demise, it's the quality of life that was lost which was most frustrating to him and to me. It is one's choice to smoke but keep in mind there are and will always be consequences to our individual actions. I will now step down from my soapbox. :-)
i watched my father go through 3 years of living hell from chemo and 2 surgerys and eventually die due to throat cancer because he smoked since he was 13
(he was 68 when he passed) he survived serving in WW2 and was a great man and this sadly had to end his life
. because of that i never have and never will smoke cigarettes and i pretty much despise the huge corperations that make them
Arguably I lost both grandfathers to smoking. One died of chronic bronchitis and the other had arteriosclerosis and a series of strokes. As a result, I agree with your last sentence 100%.
I no longer smoke, but I did for quite sometime. One of the reasons, was that, yes, I did think it looked cool. Not in the typical "I do this to fit in" kind of way, but I honestly found smokers more attractive, and I found the act of smoking to actually increase the "coolness" of people I'd see at bars or on the street. Especially if they had long-hair, piercings, or some other "rebellious" thing going on as well.
I think smoking is petty, worthless, waste of time, and pointless in the long run.
I have never smoked a ciggarette in my life, I have had only two drags on a cigar and I despised the smell, taste, and overall feeling of it. In GCSE (exams before you leave school at 16) biology, they teach you about the perils of smoking, but the facts are very poorly described. For example, I remember in a revision guide, one of a few facts, that it stated "Smoking gives you a nasty cough" A NASTY COUGH! This is the kind of advice I (and the whole class) had to listen to, and we were being taught this at the time when you were most likely to smoke! I think the government interviened in that decision, they did not want to put people off too much or they would lose money in the form of tax. Now, in A level biology, do we really understand how smoking is toxic and precisely how it effects us. I think that after reading about 9 pages, I have been put off for life for smoking tobacco. If they had taught the school leavers a couple of these pages, I'm sure most would have either given up, or never even attempt to seriously smoke.
>If they had taught the school leavers a couple of these pages, I'm
>sure most would have either given up, or never even attempt to
>seriously smoke.
Nah, most people do understand the dangers (here, at least, don't know about the rest of the world), they just don't care. Or, perhaps they're already so addicted that they can't do anything.
I don't think they understand the dangers thoroughly enough. Sure, they know that smoking is bad, why?: because everyone says so and coughing all the time must be bad for you. The stuff they go into in A level biology is emphysemia, chronic bronchitis, constriction of various tissues, and TS's of dead lung's full of cancers, and after reading that, I'd imagine it would put a far greater percentage of smokers off than with the basic GCSE crap we were taught.
That's what I'm saying I think most people here are aware of.
Humans just have a very developed way of ignoring stuff they don't want to consider.
Also the good old, it'll happen to my neighbour, not me.
People should have the right to make that choice.
I choose not to smoke because...
1. Smoking would take years off my life, which would mean fewer years to keep my long hair and beard long.
2. Smoking could burn my hair.
3. Smoke filled rooms would make my hair less visible.
4. Smoking may set a bad example for long hair.
5. If you get caught smoking something illegal, they may require haircuts in jail.
About "most of the dudes" in Denver, it may be the people you choose to be with, instead of the general population, that tend to smoke. Most people don't smoke--unless you live in an area where the air pollusion is so bad that the air is considered smoke.
