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Maybe thats what sparked your sudden interest in the Trombone...

Why not start now? Lots of fun!

It was 4 years ago Sunday since I quit. I don't miss it at all.

Good for you Cal, man I love to smoke and did not start until I was 23! Now that I am smoking the natural home rolled cigs my health has improved and I no longer have a smokers cough, I've lost weight and can maintian cardiovasculer exercise for at least a half hour. Although the truth be told I was in tri athelete condition in '98 and had a 2 pak a day Marlboro 100 habit. My real problems started after I got a desk job and gained a lot of weight, now that I lost most of it and been off manufactured cigs for over a year I feel great.

still smoking...
I've switched to a less expensive brand, though...

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"bit of nostalgia for the old folks."

Smokers Smoke to look busy ,because they dont want to be lazy. - Zut boF

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Je suis désolé pour les roles que j'ai joué dans toutes ces videos, ce n'est pas tres valorisant pour l'humanité mais si cela peut avoir fait progresser la science, alors il y aura eu un coté positif.

Not in my experiance...

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current vape flavoUr -
menthol breeze, touch of cappuccino cream, touch of classic tobacco.
TT

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and I know, I think

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Tried the wife's pineapple - hmmm .
Tried someones aniseed - average, as was strawberry.
The mixed fruit tasted like detergent - I might snort it instead.
The bourbon could be good - need to find some...
TT

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Haven't had a real cig for 2 years now. But, I'm currently using the Vuse e-cig. Mostly because it's made by RJ Reynolds, and I'm looking for the flavor of those Camels I smoked for 35 years.

What are the advantages to these vaping devices, and can you just get a Camel like flavor?

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

Try Turkish flavor it may taste like camel...

Very funny smartass.

But if there is a Turkish flavor, you never know. Might be what I'm looking for?

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

Actually the cigs I roll are no chemicals unwashed straight dried tobacco using a paper tube and filter no additives and I use Turkish Red or Bold, great smoke no cough very green, very healthy…

Sigh

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What's the ugliest part of your body ?

Don't smoke, vape:

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There is probably a percentage of people out there who are relatively unaffected by the damage that smoking tobacco does. Unfortunately, I think this number is rather small. I mean, you're inhaling fine particulates in massive quanities into your lungs, which are laced with poisonous chemicals that are also addicting. I'm a 30 year smoker and I don't see myself having the willpower to quit in the near future. However, the science has been there for a long time and Frank was a scientifically minded guy. I'm certain he knew he was fooling himself. I'd like to think that if he were still alive he'd have quit the habit by now.

yeah, i just don't approve of his "tobacco is a vegetable" safety net.

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that's what happens when you don't read you loose your link to higher thinking

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Not disputing anything else in your post, but according to what I can find they are 4.8 mg instead of 48?

I seriously do want to check these out. I've seen them at a couple of stores around the area

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

Supposedly Bob Zappa's new memoir of growing up with Frank addresses Frank's tobacco addiction and other unhealthy habits (poor diet). In some related stuff Arthur Barrow commented on his poor dental health (he always had toothaches) and reluctance to go to see a Doctor when he started having urinary problems because of the cancer. Frank couldn't pee and finally passed out and had to be taken for treatment to emergency. It also infers that Frank could have had surgery but declined becàuse he didn't want to deal with the consequences (sexual dysfunction?). Barrow also said Frank didn't have health insurance even though he was wealthy. Frank's distrust in people and American institutions probably ended up costing him (and his family). Barrow and Tom Fowler are both quoted as saying that Frank thought his chain smoking had nothing to do with his cancer and that he kept smoking after his diagnosis. I guess I can understand if you think you're going to die anyway. I'll find the link and attach it when I can.

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quote...
"research has shown that it isn't the nicotine that kills you. It's the tar and the rat poison that does that. Nicotine in fact offers a range of health benefits that are quite beneficial to human functioning.
For starters, smokers have notably lower incidences of Alzheimer's disease than their non-smoking counterparts. Nicotine mimics the action of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a dearth of which is the main cause of this disease. It is believed that this effect could also help sufferers of other neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's, Tourette's, ADHD and schizophrenia. Even depression had been targeted as an area which nicotine could prove useful. Diabetes is another area where nicotine offers potential transformative effects. The chemical has been shown to improve the growth and health of blood vessels. Diabetics often struggle with blood flow to their extremities and medical scientists are trialing a nicotine-based gel to combat this."

I've been on and off the smokes since I was 14, with a few periods lasting several years off them. About 10 years ago, I gave a hitchhiker a lift and he accidentally left a pack on the passenger seat - cue taking it up again, albeit part-time (two/three a day) for 8 years. Its not easy limiting yourself to that few, and looking back, during that time I was tetchy and moody. Two years ago, I bought my first e-cig, and now vape - a lot. I'm 'addicted' to nicotine, but so what? During the last two years, I feel much calmer, I'm not living a clandestine smokers life with the kids, and my health has improved a great deal. I'm really enjoying 'living it up' too, and the kids don't mind.
FZ must have realised the positive effects of nicotine, and chose to ignore the detrimental effects of smoking. I think if vape had been around 40 years ago, he would have been one of the first in on it.
TT

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Aren't you just replacing one expense for another? I would have been tempting by vaping and all that if it were a lot more popular when I quit. But it's really nice to not have to pay anything to stay addicted to a drug. (Let me stress, I don't care if people smoke or not - my wife still does.)