BlakNWyte, you sound so wonderfully american. I plan to start working out and living healthily, when I'm in a more stable point in my life. At the moment, to just have a cigarette and a glass of coke is one of the few times when you really can relax. You don't ACTIVELY force out stress as you do with gymming, you just lean back and relax.
KronosLord, you should start campaigning for something. You're salting the truth here, and you're doing it alot. Unless cigarettes actively go against your brothers employer, his girlfriends and his landlords religion, there's no way a cigarette addiction will fuck shit up that bad. There had to be some underlying causes. Also lol, cigarettes won't make you rebel against the establishment and laze around your home for days. >_>
FoodEater, I can see how that's true. Seeing as my friends with non-smoking parents usually go "ew, cig smoke" and I on the other hand go "how wonderful". I seriously always loved the smell, and I liked the taste from cig one. I suppose I was just introduced early. On the other hand, you can't view parenting through a statistics-lens. Kids/teens, and also, adults have their own choices. Parents are allowed to live, and they are still allowed to smoke. All they can really do is tell them that it's bad and that it MIGHT eventually kill you. My mother said wisely "since I've smoked since I was 11, I can't judge you. But I can tell you that it was one of my worst mistakes". I fully know what I sign up for, both my maternal grandparents have had cancer (my grandfather died of it). So all these anti-smoking campaigns.. We know what we're doing.
Lastly, Peter: That's true, which is why I smoked them. I'm smoking Prince White at the moment though, pretty shitty aftertaste. :|
as far As I know it was only cigars.
I have asked him before if there was more involved but he wont say anything when I ask him.