Gonna die no matter what, and I like smoking, so fark you anti-smokers.

I'll just continue saving $2,500 a year by not paying taxes on my cigarettes.

A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

You still get to die of cancer, but with self righteousness. Eventually.

I know it's a bad habit, but it only costs me about $160 to smoke for a year.

swahnhennessy: I buy whole leaf tobacco for $10 a kilo and process it myself. That's $40 a year for a product that's better than anything you can buy in a store. I spend an additional $20-30 a year on papers, and my biggest expense is importing Swan extra slim filters from the UK, which runs me about $80 a year, postage included. And those aren't a necessity, as I smoked Lucky Strikes before I decided to be cooler than you.

Thats a good idea, I didn't know you could buy cured leaves online and make your own blends and such. I think I might try that.

AverageAmericanGuy: dustlesswalnut: AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

You sound not-cool.

Your father died because he was human. Could cigarettes have been a contributing factor? Of course! Do you know what would have happened if he never smoked? No.

Also from the sound of it, cigarettes provided everything you ever had that came from your dad. You should thank RJReynolds for the roof over your head and the food on your table when you were a kid.

A pallet of cigarettes fell on him.

I was waiting for that. Ha!

WildManBand: a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

You sound like the 1% to me.

Pete_T_Mann: Thats a good idea, I didn't know you could buy cured leaves online and make your own blends and such. I think I might try that.

You totally should. I haven't even tried experimenting with blends, as the Virginia brightleaf I first tried proved to make for a fine smoke all by itself, but it is intriguing to think of the options. It being so cheap is nice, but you can really have yourself a top-notch smoke, as well. Not to mention there's no pesky additives to it. As for prep, I bought a shredder online for about $25, and spend about 30 minutes every month de-stemming the leaf and shredding it.

I feel bad not having done it earlier. I've rolled my own for over a decade, but it never occurred to me that I could do it better. I'd thought I was being smart by importing pouches of tobacco from Australia for cheap (at least cheap for Sweden - there's something sad about having something flown halfway around the world and it still being half the price of what you'd pay down the street), but I was still throwing money away. I probably still am, but I'm not involved enough to grow/cure it myself.

Two people on my floor at work have died from smoking in the past couple of years, and both were in their early 50s. Which seems old when you are 17, but you'll be 45 like me soon, and that won't seem old at all.

Anyone younger than 40 who smokes is a real moran.

AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

At least he died doing what he loved though, so there's that.

dustlesswalnut: A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

Or you could stop doing something you enjoy and get hit by a bus tomorrow.

I've never met anybody that made it out alive. Give me a quick death at 60 over a slow buildup of medical conditions any day.

I quit smoking because I didn't want to date a smoker and felt that was hypocritical of me. Been a few years, though I do still light up if I'm drunk and someone has a pack.

So, you're cool with being a hypocrite when you're drunk?

Mad Scientist: Two people on my floor at work have died from smoking in the past couple of years, and both were in their early 50s. Which seems old when you are 17, but you'll be 45 like me soon, and that won't seem old at all.

Anyone younger than 40 who smokes is a real moran.

Everything in moderation

AverageAmericanGuy: dustlesswalnut: AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

You sound not-cool.

Your father died because he was human. Could cigarettes have been a contributing factor? Of course! Do you know what would have happened if he never smoked? No.

Also from the sound of it, cigarettes provided everything you ever had that came from your dad. You should thank RJReynolds for the roof over your head and the food on your table when you were a kid.

A pallet of cigarettes fell on him.

LMAO, well done.

*golf clap*

tbyte: SumoJeb: Gee maybe I should take up smoking. I spend about 6500 to 7000 a year on chewing tobacco.

Wow, that's insane. Really? Is it just a matter of where you live?

I'd venture a guess one of those states where they 'y'all" a lot.

swahnhennessy: As for prep, I bought a shredder online for about $25, and spend about 30 minutes every month de-stemming the leaf and shredding it.

Do you make your own warning labels, or do you buy them pre-printed?

Yeah, already did that, smartass subby. 2 weeks in, and capable of cold-blooded murder. Thanks for bringing it up.

Really? I have to be the one?

Quitters, Inc (new window)

Besides, when I quit smoking 2 years ago September 24th, I thought about the money I'd be saving up, etc... But then I look back after 2 years and realize that, thanks to the economy tanking and my wife being out of a job, I want to smoke more now sometimes than I wanted to then, and I'm further in debt...

Seriously though, I don't miss it, considering the way the smell turns my stomach into knots...

The wife and I both smoke. At $6.60 a pack and three packs a day between the two of us, that would be a savings of $6652.00 ish. Damn that makes me sad.

WildManBand: "For those needing a bit more motivation to quit smoking, a U.S. physician suggests focusing on the thousands of dollars a smoker will keep in his or her pocket."

Money is no object when it comes to pleasure, or addiction. Besides, the label on the smokes tells you that it will kill you, If i still buy smokes after that warning, a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

It worked for me several years ago when a pack per day was a $100 monthly expense. I guess it depends on how much one values money and how theoretical your own death from smoking in 50 years may seem. The money issue seems more practical to me in general and even more so given the economy.

jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

I've already saved 1/10 of that in the last month by switching to this ecig. I can look cooler than them with my little blue light AND save money! (without the stink, secondhand smoke, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, diacetyl, or 3900-ish other chemicals, don't have to worry about burning the car seat, the couch or that one of the kids is going to run up behind me and bump into it)

Oznog: A Terrible Human: You could also buy a cigarette machine,tubes and tobacco or quit and not possibly die of a horrible cancer.
/Decisions,decisions.

Let's turn this into an e-cig thread right here and now.

I'm fake-smoking my KR808D-1 with a carto full of RY4 sitting at my desk at work riiiight now. Wish these would have existed 10 years ago.

swahnhennessy: I buy whole leaf tobacco for $10 a kilo and process it myself. That's $40 a year for a product that's better than anything you can buy in a store. I spend an additional $20-30 a year on papers, and my biggest expense is importing Swan extra slim filters from the UK, which runs me about $80 a year, postage included. And those aren't a necessity, as I smoked Lucky Strikes before I decided to be cooler than you.

Ah, the hipsters have arrived. How mainstream.

Chevello: Ah, the hipsters have arrived. How mainstream.

Jesus. Bad enough you took that seriously, but to use the "hipster" label? Come on.

/Fark. Where everyone who is not you is a hipster.

AverageAmericanGuy: jingks: I just consider it a $3300 a year charge to look cooler than the rest of you.

/ whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz, sploosh...

Really? Smoking makes you cooler? The brown teeth, bad breath, brittle hair, body odor, and burnt carseats are really cool, dipshiat.

My father was killed by cigarettes. He worked for decades at the RJR cigarette factory (Winston), and he smoked a pack every day. One day he didn't come home from work. We got a call instead from the factory manager that he had died at work.

/csb

You don't even want to know how much I used to spend per year on pot :(

Is this the thread where people talk about ramping up their smoking habits out of spite for people who don't like smelly smokers?

I have a better idea. Get rid of the farking sin tax on stupid assed shiat.

Looks like I piced the wrong week to quit smoking.

Seriously. I'm on day two smoke free.

Mad Scientist: Two people on my floor at work have died from smoking in the past couple of years, and both were in their early 50s. Which seems old when you are 17, but you'll be 45 like me soon, and that won't seem old at all.

Anyone younger than 40 who smokes is a real moran.

You're an uneducated moran yourself, there, sparky. People have known smoking is absolutely terrible for your health for way more than a hundred years, and there have been numerous pr campaigns throughout as well. Do some research and learn a book ffs.

swahnhennessy: Chevello: Ah, the hipsters have arrived. How mainstream.

Jesus. Bad enough you took that seriously, but to use the "hipster" label? Come on.

/Fark. Where everyone who is not you is a hipster.

Heh. Come on, it's Fark. Does anyone take anything seriously?

I am soooo glad no one reads this far down.

/$520 a year
//smokes a pipe
///always been a lot cheaper than cigarettes

anyone who doesn't live the way i do is a fool.

FTA: "Twenty minutes after quitting, your heart rate and blood pressure drop. Twelve hours after quitting, the carbon monoxide level in your blood drops to normal," Reynes said. "One year after quitting, the excess risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a continuing smoker's."

And six years after quitting my femoral arteries are still 80% blocked. Yes, smoking caused that. As a result I can hardly walk. I have ulcers on my foot. I can't get it up with a crane. That 3000 bucks I'm saving is a drop in the bucket compared to the expense of trying to stay alive. But, damn it, I sure looked cool.

Go on, smoke 'em if you got 'em!

Tater1337: I am soooo glad no one reads this far down.

/$520 a year
//smokes a pipe
///always been a lot cheaper than cigarettes

I was asking yesterday in TFD for recommendations on different types of pipe tobacco. Care to share any of your favorites?

Puffing on my Janty Ego. With fluid and atomizers, probably runs about $120 for the year.

Been going for about a year now and my chest and cardio health as never felt better. The few times i tried a cigarrette it made me feel nauseous. I really don't see the point of smoking at all anymore with these things around.

Protip:don't buy one at the mall. Start of with an Ego or 510 or your doing it wrong. Also, the desire to have it look exactly like a cigarette fades after the first week.

jimjazz: The wife and I both smoke. At $6.60 a pack and three packs a day between the two of us, that would be a savings of $6652.00 ish. Damn that makes me sad.

Trust me, you'll find some other useless shiat to fritter the cash away on. It's not like those of us that have quit suddenly find that we have tons of spare cash.

You should totally quit because it'll kill you , and you'll feel better, you won't smell so bad, you'll get your own sense of smell back etc etc, but the cash... it just goes one way or another.

+1 for a quality e-cig, such as the eGo (above). I'm 6 weeks without a cigarette after 17 years of smoking. The e-cig is a game-changer, if you get the right one.

Advice:
- If it looks like a real cigarette, it's crap
- If you got it at the mall or a gas station, it's crap
- If you can only buy replacement cartridges from the company that sold you the e-cig, it's crap
- If it's not Scottish...

No smell, no ash, no tar, no 1000's of chemicals and by-products. It's a propylene glycol solution (used in asthma inhalers, medical nebulizers, OTC meds, food processing, etc.) with nicotine and candy flavorings.

I buy by the carton. $5/pack 1pack/day

$1826.25/year

My 4 shot lattes cost $4.38. I've been drinking 10 of those a week.

$2277.60/year

My mortgage payment is $1420.

$17040/year.

Obviously I should go be homeless. I'd save the most money that way.

no.

I don't see the big deal. Smoke if you want to. I'll encourage you to smoke more.

1. It's taxed to death, so you are raising your own taxes.
2. It's generally a very obvious habit. If I don't like your smoking, I can choose not to talk to you.
3. Smokers generally die quicker, so they are less of a burden on the healthcare system.
4. I have a few shares of Altria. My retirement account profits from every pack of Marlboros sold.

WildManBand: "For those needing a bit more motivation to quit smoking, a U.S. physician suggests focusing on the thousands of dollars a smoker will keep in his or her pocket."

Money is no object when it comes to pleasure, or addiction. Besides, the label on the smokes tells you that it will kill you, If i still buy smokes after that warning, a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

This AND fast food bags and Marie Callender's pot pies should come with the same warning.

m3000: You also stop being a asshole when smoking in crowded public places, so there's that benefit too.

Funny, because as a smoker, I always make sure I smoke away from people. Go out of my way to be away when I do it - yet somehow, people like you always find it necessary to walk over to me for no reason at all and then complain about it.

I'll keep ponying up my $4 a day - it is cheaper than paying for the lawyer fees and going to jail for murdering assclowns in public.

Add in the fact that there are chain smoking gamers who pay 13-15 a month (depending on the package deal) for World of Warcraft and it's loony tunes time

qitty: WildManBand: "For those needing a bit more motivation to quit smoking, a U.S. physician suggests focusing on the thousands of dollars a smoker will keep in his or her pocket."

Money is no object when it comes to pleasure, or addiction. Besides, the label on the smokes tells you that it will kill you, If i still buy smokes after that warning, a measly 1500 - 3300 dollars won't motivate me to quit smoking.

I found the best way to quit was not gimmicks or patches or whatever.. it was simply deciding that I was stronger than the urge to have a smoke. I quit a pack a day habit cold turkey and never went back.

and that happened years and years before watching my dad die of lung cancer...


You stopped smoking cold turkey? What did you smoke before, baked ham?

Gotta love Fark, where people will continually post in one thread to legalize marijuana, then come into a tobacco thread to demonize "smoking."

GoodyearPimp: I don't see the big deal. Smoke if you want to. I'll encourage you to smoke more.

And if your friends don't smoke, and if they don't smoke, they're ... no friends of smoke.