| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/4/2006 8:36:08 PM | scottallen said:
This is America - A free, democratic society in which life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is guaranteed by act of Congress... If lighting a smoke is a person's concept of happiness & liberty, stand down, and allow that person to express their civil liberties as you would expect them to respect yours ...
Oh...yes...yes....it's all very well to spout democratic rhetoric to justify yourself, and your actions. But let me tell you this: YOUR right to smoke ENDS where other people's right to breathe smoke-free air BEGINS. You have every right to enjoy your civil liberty to destroy your own lungs and health with cigarette smoke. But don't subject other people to it in the process. So....smoke in your own house, your own car - your own office. But DON'T sit next to me in a public place and force the bi-product of your stinking habit on ME. | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/5/2006 9:49:28 AM | Yes, I get turned off by smokers.
I was driving down the road with a friend. WEll, I was in the passenger seat but whatever. We pulled up to a red light and there was this absolutely GORGEOUS(physically, anyway) girl sitting in the car next to us. We both had our tongues hanging out and little hearts in our eyes. She saw us, smiled, and then, did the nastiest thing, pulled out a cig and lit up. I guess she thought it was cool, needless to say I went flaccid right then. I probably offended her with the facial expression I more than likely had.
I was so disappointed. I almost had my cell phone up and would have said give me your number....*SIGH*  | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/5/2006 10:03:55 AM |
I guess she thought it was cool
Maybe, just maybe, she lit up because she felt like having a cigarette, not because she "thought it was cool"...
And if you had your tongues hanging out... then I doubt she actually would have felt like calling you had you held your cell phone up and told her to.
Sheesh. Talk about things that turn people off. | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/5/2006 2:21:28 PM | You know... as a smoker, it makes perfect sense for non-smokers to not want to date us, and I completely understand & support that decision.
On the other hand, I've turned down dating someone who didn't smoke and all I heard was crap like "what, you don't like to date healthy women?" and "you know, all you have to do is quit and this wouldn't be an issue."
I go out of my way not to have my habit be something non-smokers have to deal with. I go outside to smoke if necessary, never try to smoke in their presence, etc., but some non-smokers are worse than bible-thumpers on a crusade, and I think they also need to learn a little discretion.
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/12/2006 8:51:47 PM | Yes, this is true, we should open our minds more....from the health care profession let me expand your minds a little..... I've taken care of elderly people most of my life, a lot of them were smokers when they were younger and at 8o years old and 85 they are telling me that if they had life to live all over again they would never touch cigarettes.....why you ask, well most of them are on oxygen, and they have to tote their tanks of oxygen around with them wherever they go, a real hassle, is what they tell me.....some are survivors of cancer, from there own cigarettes or from second hand smoke, which in "their day" did'nt exist, but definitely effected there health. They inform me, from smoking they aged faster, their skin looked old faster, more wrinkles....now tell me does this expand your mind?
I dated a smoker once....will never again, he was a considerate smoker, but I just don't care for the health risks to my own health, when you have asthma, it makes life difficult to be around a smoker. To be around a person that chews...not to bad, however then you have to consider throat cancer, cancer of the tongue, ummmm, does'ent that sound terrific....it's just not for me..... Call me cancer free.... | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 1:54:50 PM | | Well personally If I see a girl lightup then she is automatically put in the no no category even if she is really hot. Infact one girl who was interested in me started smoking when dancing with me it didn't go any further. It is gross. | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 2:30:07 PM | I think all us smokers should be taken out and beaten like the dogs that we are.
How dare somebody make a choice that other's don't like. After all it's only smokers that do something that's bad for them, nobody else. lol
BTW, quiting soon but still bugs me that other feel they have a right to impose thier belief's on other's even if it is a filty habit. | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 3:26:26 PM | I will only date smokers. I smoke and enjoy it.To the pof member who talks to people of 80+
who wish they had not smoked,what do you think people of this age would be like if they had not smoked?,maybe they would be in the olympics now?(they are doing well to get to 80+,smokers or not).I smoke at home,in my car ,in smoking area at work ,no one who dose not like smoke has to breath mine!
A lot of people say that the site of a hot woman smoking puts them of,i say GREAT more hot woman for those of us that dont mind. Sorry friends your lossjavascript:smilie(' ') | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 3:47:44 PM | Well, obviously you all hate smokers. O.K, fine, then dont date them. If it's a turn off for you then put up a freakin filter so you can't e-mail them and vice-versa. In the real world, well, just put us all in a cage since you feel the need! Moving on now... | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 10:38:26 PM | I am lucky as I live in a smoke free state. But if I didn't live in a smoke free state, I would find out where a non smoking place and in my profile, I tell them, I am a non smoker, which clues into me that I am not into smoking. I have asthma.
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/13/2006 10:59:43 PM | | I prefer to date nonsmokers. It's not so much the stink or the expense for me....it's the idea that if a man loved me so much, he'd want to be healthy to be around with me as long as possible! It's proved to be unhealthy as hell and I want a man to love me so much that he'd want to stay healthy for me, for us! I could see the most gorgeous man in the world on the street, but the moment he lights up, I lose interest. Witness that chain-smoker, Brad Pitt....not so sexy since I found that out! | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/14/2006 12:25:20 AM | | Smokers are the new scapegoat for everything. Someone gets turned down for a date and they bring their fury to the antismoking forum. But thats alright. I have nicotine certified nerves of steel, bring your wrath. | |
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/14/2006 8:59:48 AM | (As another poster said..non-negotiable issue for me and has been the reason for my not dating several people....tried to compromise once and it was a disaster.)
Dating smokers, wow, nothing worse than an ex smoker....that's me.
Smoked for 23 years, quite 12 years ago. My grandfather dies from smoking (CANCER), my brother died from smoking (CANCER) I just hope I stopped in time.
Now back to the dating: I love to kiss and cuddle...but the 'ashtray' effect is a turn-off. The clothes stink (and smoke-Cologne) is really bad.
Smoking is not pretty, and yes it is very hard to quite, and NO, I will not date a smoker.
Have a wonderful day,
Tomi
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| does anyone get as turned off with a smoker as i do?
Posted: 9/14/2006 9:07:33 AM | (as was stated by BLUEZ: I go out of my way not to have my habit be something non-smokers have to deal with. I go outside to smoke if necessary, never try to smoke in their presence, etc., but some non-smokers are worse than bible-thumpers on a crusade, and I think they also need to learn a little discretion.)
Non-Smokers need to learn discretion...ok. True. And on the other side of the coin, second-hand smoke kills. So please Smokes, don't take my life away, be discreet.
Tomi
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