I guess I'm in the 'drink till it comes out of your ears' categorrry,

While never inhaling, she counts herself lucky her habit has never caused her harm.

she never inhaled? 5 smokes a day for 94 years and she didn't ever inhale?

/hope i'm reading that wrong

Megain: While never inhaling, she counts herself lucky her habit has never caused her harm.she never inhaled? 5 smokes a day for 94 years and she didn't ever inhale?

/hope i'm reading that wrong

She could run for president.

Megain: While never inhaling, she counts herself lucky her habit has never caused her harm.she never inhaled? 5 smokes a day for 94 years and she didn't ever inhale?

/hope i'm reading that wrong

Hell, I don't even light them. I just hang it off my lip to look cool.

/and to piss the hell out of anti-smokers
//who still managed to start hacking and coughing

Where's the hero tag?

Never inhaled? Doesn't drink? Oh, she is a female.

Actually I read somewhere that five cigarettes a day is not all that bad for you. Especially if you do not INHALE. I smoke about 15-20 though and do inhale. I can be hardcore as well. When I was living in Beijing (where just living there is the equivalent of smoking two packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day) I would smoke cheap local cigarettes. Everyone in Beijing smokes. And don't get me started on drinking. I am drunk now.

/smoking trifecta in play?

amateur.

Jeanne Calment (new window)

"She gave up smoking at the age of 117, only five years before her death.[10] Though she relapsed for a year she finally gave up smoking at the age of 119 years (blindness made it difficult for her to light a cigarette, and she was reluctant to ask others for help)."

whats the point of not inhaling?

/does she not swallow either?

Has anybody heard of a 'bell curve'?

How about a 'median'? Anybody know what a median is?

illustri: whats the point of not inhaling?

/does she not swallow either?

Congrats, you just made me cringe at the thought.

Joce678: Has anybody heard of a 'bell curve'?

How about a 'median'? Anybody know what a median is?

I think it has more to do with the not inhaling. Though I don't think three or four a day is all that harmful either.

Oh, she doesn't inhale the SMOKE. For a minute I thought she didn't inhale AT ALL, and I was trying to figure out, you know...

2 packs a day, here. Order them online now, no taxes. Cartons of Marlboro Reds for $22. Taste a little different at first. I got over it.

/screw you, government.

So she just lets them burn?
Why would anyone do this?

I guess I know a few cigar 'smokers' that do that...

robohobo: Order them online now, no taxes.

got a link?

Seriously. I know a good handfull of cigar smokers, and none of them inhale. Is that how one 'smokes' cigars? What's the point? Are there any cigar smoker here who can explain this phenomenon? Cause everything I smoke, I inhale. By that I mean I smoke cigarettes and pounds of mari-ju-wanna.

Huh.

I object to smoking only in places that are difficult to hose down with eleventy-hundred gallons of Uber Febreze after. (You know, the kind designed for airplanes and rooms containing incontinent pterodactyls.)

Buying a car that was owned by smokers can save you a grand, easily, but you then have to spend six hours and $50 to get it to smell halfway decent, and by that I mean people get into it and JUST KNOW you're the sicko who's been kidnapping Yankee Candle girls from the mall.

And if said smokers were also formaldehyde-y Aqua Velva and rose-water-drenched OLD PEOPLE, forget it. A Wal-Mart bicycle takes less effort to get you to and from work in any relative comfort.

It took me more scented products than the average drag queen owns to get that Camry to smell like something other than a sports bar for the geriatric that had not been cleaned since Ronald Reagan threw up in it during his first term. Jelly beans, stale smoke and fail.

So, yeah, the grannylady probably makes dogs evolve thumbs on the spot just so they can shoot themselves. But smokers are okay, provided they keep the cheap 'USA Gold' shiat outside and wipe down the walls every Presidential administration or so. Clove-smoking hipsters with OCD are, of course, welcome.

The lady in question??

SeamusFerrell

Actually I read somewhere that five cigarettes a day is not all that bad for you.

Smoker mythology, mostly. Smokers sometimes bray out lines like "there's no statistical evidence that smoking less than five a day is harmful". Well, it's not really true. A few studies do show that. For the studies that don't, it's a matter of not being able to tease a trend out of the noise (it's very hard to control for noise with human subjects).

Especially if you do not INHALE.

However, this is true, and should be obvious.

I realize there's always a few outliers, but most likely this woman would have died at least 20 years ago if she inhaled.

i used to smoke cigars and i never inhaled. you get the taste of the tobacco and the smell of it. contrary to what many believe (many of my friends) you DO take in niccotine through your gums and what little gets into your lungs.

Kygz: robohobo: Order them online now, no taxes.

got a link?

http://www.smokinforfree.com/


Fark Obama.

Thanks robohobo, I think I'll give it a whirl.

/fark vice taxation.

robohobo: 2 packs a day, here. Order them online now, no taxes. Cartons of Marlboro Reds for $22. Taste a little different at first. I got over it.

/screw you, government.

At least until you need medicaid for your chemo.

Kygz: robohobo: Order them online now, no taxes.

got a link?

He must be ordering them from Europe (probably Russia). Just do a search for cheap cigarettes or European cigarettes and you will get plenty of links. Be warned that you are only allowed to import something like 2 cartons per month. Most companies waive shipping if you order 10 cartons. If you get caught, guess what? You can be charged with smuggling and go to federal PMITA prison.

Or you could just roll your own. It is still taxed, but not as much as packaged cigarettes. Or go to an Indian reservation if one is near you. Or Mexico of you have a Mexico near you.

Someone should do some math and determine how much she has spent on cigs over the years. You'll have to adjust for inflation every year after determining the rate. Shouldn't take more than 20 minutes. Someone get on this, OK? It's important.

SpiderQueenDemon: Huh....

SeamusFerrell: He must be ordering them from Europe (probably Russia).

I got a carton of Russian Marlboros once. They sucked, were like Dorals.

TOO OLD >:(

when I smoked, I smoke 2-3 cigs a day, 3 days a week, and I only do that when I feel like buying some cigs, 2-3 times a year. (which won't be anymore now that they are 50 bucks) I know that this is not common, but I doubt, just from knowledge of my body, that it harms me any more than just living in the city.

anyway as somebody who used to just smoke occasionally I can say that the days after I smoke, it is harder to get out of bed, and of course am always clearing my throat. BUT any time I feel like I am getting a soar throat or cold, I grab a pack if I can. smoke 3-4 a day and I don't get sick. when I don't smoke, I do get sick and just take medicine (which is hard to find because of the damn meth heads).

not that one person analyzing himself is any kind of science, just mentioning.

I looked into online sales a couple years ago.

This article scared me away from it.If there has been a change ,i would love to know.
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robohobo: 2 packs a day, here. Order them online now, no taxes. Cartons of Marlboro Reds for $22. Taste a little different at first. I got over it.

/screw you, government.

I used to do that but ended up getting dinged by customs. They charge about $30 per carton you import so it's barely worth it. That's if the inspectors don't swipe them... or the postal workers...

/Canadian
//Lucky Strikes are the greatest

I need a vice? I'd sooner take up paddling asexual midgets then submit my lungs to that much radiation.

CruJones: I think it has more to do with the not inhaling. Though I don't think three or four a day is all that harmful either.

I just read the whole article. She smokes one after every meal and doesn't inhale.

I'm not sure where the number 171,500 comes from unless she has five meals per day.

/Maybe 'meal' is a euphemism for every time she has sex.

you can still get cancer of the mouth or gums if you don't inhale. Some people are just lucky... Not everyone that smokes gets lung cancer, either.

Just depends on how the cards fall.

Tr0mBoNe: robohobo: 2 packs a day, here. Order them online now, no taxes. Cartons of Marlboro Reds for $22. Taste a little different at first. I got over it.

/screw you, government.

I used to do that but ended up getting dinged by customs. They charge about $30 per carton you import so it's barely worth it. That's if the inspectors don't swipe them... or the postal workers...

/Canadian
//Lucky Strikes are the greatest

I order half my smokes to my places, the other half to my neighbors' house, just in case. It's worked for months, now.

SeamusFerrell: Kygz: robohobo: Order them online now, no taxes.

got a link?

He must be ordering them from Europe (probably Russia). Just do a search for cheap cigarettes or European cigarettes and you will get plenty of links. Be warned that you are only allowed to import something like 2 cartons per month. Most companies waive shipping if you order 10 cartons. If you get caught, guess what? You can be charged with smuggling and go to federal PMITA prison.

Or you could just roll your own. It is still taxed, but not as much as packaged cigarettes. Or go to an Indian reservation if one is near you. Or Mexico of you have a Mexico near you.

They tax the fark out of rolling your own now. Cost of a can of American Spirit has doubled since this guy came in office.

Smokes are like buying lottery tickets. The more you smoke the better chance you have of "winning" cancer, emphysema or heart disease.

Of course, the law of probability says that one can still buy thousands of lottery tickets for each drawing and still never win anything....

Freaking amateur.

I smoked an average of 2 packs a day for 35 years, for a total of roughly 511,350 cigarettes.

I singlehandedly consumed enough poison to kill every man, woman and child in a small city, and spent wasted enough money paying for it to buy a small house.

By the time I quit, I was coughing up little gray-green oysters every morning, and I looked right over the edge of my grave (gaw-DAMN, that's a helluva way down!) before I did what had to be done.

Clean 5249 days so far.

Nicotine is what "smack" wants to be when it grows up.

Something smells funny here: this story and the old biatch in it.

Well since each cigarette takes 10 min off your life she could have lived to 104 if she didn't smoke.

/of course I not sure how that "didn't inhale" would affect these results.

Half a pack a day of roll your own American Spirit. Good stuff.

robohobo: Kygz: robohobo: Order them online now, no taxes.

got a link?

http://www.smokinforfree.com/


Fark Obama.

I wonder why all the menthol cigarettes are sold out???

/not snarking
//actually wondering

Gyrfalcon, you owe me a new keyboard.

I'm a former cigarette smoker and a current cigar and pipe smoker.

First off tobacco is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE INHALED!!! Yes thats right. It's only because of all the crap they do to cigarette tobacco that makes it possible to be inhaled. Don't believe me? Hand a cigar to any cigarette smoker and tell them to inhale, stand back so they don't hit you with the forth coming vomit.

If you don't inhale, tobacco really isn't that bad for you despite what the anti-tobacco and cigarette companies want you to think. It wasn't really until after ww2 when cigarette popularity went through the roof that people started dropping dead from smoking. Just think of all the old people that smoked cigars and lived past 90. Now think how many cigarette smokers make it past 90.

Also by not inhaling you slow down the absorbtion rate of nicotine. Your brain doesn't get the instant hit of nicotine like you do when the smoke is absorbed into the lungs. While you'll get more nicotine out of a single large cigar than you will a pack of cigarettes, you don't develop the same addiction. I rate my caffine addiction as higher than my nicotine addiction. Skipping smoking isn't really a big deal. See how many cigarette smokers can just cold turkey for a week and not think twice about it.

This is all just food for thought. Go do your own research and hit up a cigar shop near you.

Tweeker: They tax the fark out of rolling your own now. Cost of a can of American Spirit has doubled since this guy came in office.

Yeah, I know. It is still way cheaper than buying packaged smokes though. The tax on loose tobacco went up something like 400 percent thanks to Barry. At least that is my experience in Chicago. You have this crazy federal tax, but the state, county, and city taxes are not nearly as bad as they are on packaged cigarettes.

What the hell? Isn't it taxed up the ass enough? And I find it completely absurd that American tobacco is being packaged in Europe and then shipped back to America because it is cheaper to buy from a European company instead of the Ma & Pa store on the corner. Liquor is next...

Joce678: Has anybody heard of a 'bell curve'?

How about a 'median'? Anybody know what a median is?

is this what your talking about?

aerojockey: Smoker mythology, mostly. Smokers sometimes bray out lines like "there's no statistical evidence that smoking less than five a day is harmful". Well, it's not really true. A few studies do show that. For the studies that don't, it's a matter of not being able to tease a trend out of the noise (it's very hard to control for noise with human subjects).

I don't know about 5 a day, but considering that the lungs do have remarkable ability to cleanse themselves, there should be some amount of toxins you can take in from smoking that your body can handle. There is also a lot more to getting cancer than just smoking (studies show that people who drink decaf, both ex-smokers and consistent smokers, are less likely to get lung cancer than their counterparts and the credit goes to the flavinoids (sp?), an antioxidant) and depending on what other factors you have going on, the number of smokes you can get handle without getting cancer is going to be affected by it.

robohobo: I order half my smokes to my places, the other half to my neighbors' house, just in case. It's worked for months, now.

I did that too... I got about a years worth of smokes out of the internet before my name got on some list. I tried a few weeks ago with my new address and they attached the bill on the first order.

According to the letter in the pack, they search 10-25% of all internationally shipped packages. I guess I got unlucky on my first attempt at the new spot. I'm not going to do it again... I don't smoke as much any more... down to about a pack a week depending on how much I drink.

mxwjs: when I smoked, I smoke 2-3 cigs a day, 3 days a week, and I only do that when I feel like buying some cigs, 2-3 times a year. (which won't be anymore now that they are 50 bucks) I know that this is not common, but I doubt, just from knowledge of my body, that it harms me any more than just living in the city.

anyway as somebody who used to just smoke occasionally I can say that the days after I smoke, it is harder to get out of bed, and of course am always clearing my throat. BUT any time I feel like I am getting a soar throat or cold, I grab a pack if I can. smoke 3-4 a day and I don't get sick. when I don't smoke, I do get sick and just take medicine (which is hard to find because of the damn meth heads).

not that one person analyzing himself is any kind of science, just mentioning.

Well, not that it makes it any better, but I'll back up everything you just said as describing my personal experience to the letter.