I have a friend that learned how to put lit cigarettes out on his tongue. Haven’t seen him do it in a while though. hehe
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I never learned any tricks. Except the one where you can smoke a whole cigarette in one shot. I can’t do that anymore. Lungs are too shitty.
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Oh damn. We used to call that the fireman’s drag. Never managed though. Only trick I ever learned was never getting addicted. I don’t know what’s up with that. Nicotine and opioids hold no sway over me. I watch my friends go through hell trying to quit and I can take em or leave em (ciggies, I mean). Smoked the last one at the new year and don’t intend to smoke again… unless I get drunk and want one, I guess.
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You lucky bastard.
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Coffee, on the other hand. Yikes.
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One of the rock bands I like (Foxy Shazam) had this lead singer who ate lit cigarettes on stage. No joke, no tricks. He said in an interview that the inside of the mouth heals from burns really quickly, so he got used to it.
If you want to skip the monologue and go straight to the start of the song, it starts at about 2:56. The cigarette trick is around 4:16 or so.
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As a smoker, I understand that people don’t want to breathe in air pollution from secondhand smoke. And I’d be happy to oblige under one condition - that they don’t make me breathe in their air pollution.
You have every right to complain about secondhand smoke if, and only if, you do not use any electricity from the grid or travel in any motorized vehicle that burns fossil fuels. Otherwise, you’re dumping out tons of air pollution for every fraction of an ounce that I exhale while smoking. I’ll stop polluting your air if you’ll stop polluting mine.
Seriously, the exhaust fumes near any road are orders of magnitude more intense than a whiff of smoke from a nearby cigarette.
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Probably that one. I respond well to requests about my smoking but not to drama queen behavior.
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Splendid idea! But why stop at smokers. The model could also make smacking noises and breathe heavy when overweight people are detected, slur and babble aggressively at people drinking alcohol, take a dump when dog owners walk by, show pictures of animals suffering in cages and clogged-up arteries to meat eaters, african kids suffering in coltan mines to smartphone users…
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There is no person in the billboard. The billboard is not being harmed. If anything, this perpetuates the idea that everyone who’s physically bothered by smoking is a busybody ostentatiously faking coughs.
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Yup. Especially the harm done by second hand cigarette smoke in an open space. Sure, standing in an open-roofed stadium full of smokers is comparable to exposure inside a building.
Standing outside at a bus stop, open on multiple sides? You might smell second hand smoke, but you’re not getting cancer from it.
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Yeah, but mostly in the minds of smokers looking for any excuse not to quit.
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Oh bullshit.
I spent an entire childhood either coming down with a cold or getting over one. One parent (ironically, the one who was super health-conscious about food) smoked.
As an adult, an evening out hearing a band or going to a pub meant an automatic sinus infection. Even just an evening at a friend’s house could mean a sick day if there were people smoking (yeah, even if we were outside in the back yard. It doesn’t all blow away immediately.).
I thought I just wasn’t cut out for socialising, until Ontario banned smoking in music venues and bars. Now the price of live music does not include getting sick. It had nothing to do with staying out late or getting dehydrated, like my smoking friends always insisted. It didn’t even have to do with waiting for the bus under-dressed in sub-zero weather in the winter. All of that stayed the same, but the smoke exposure went away and it’s made a huge difference.
Why do people have to have a life-threatening disease from second-hand smoke before it’s considered worth butting out for? It stinks and it feels awful to be sitting next to someone who reeks of stale ash. I can count the number of drags I’ve taken in my life on one hand, yet smoking has had a huge impact on my life. I would rather walk past a heroin addict shooting up on the street than a group of smokers.
ETA: As far as “shaming” goes, comparing it to fat or other shaming isn’t equivalent. Fat shaming is telling a person they’re disgusting because of their size, often with a soupçon of concern driving trollies thrown in. I don’t give a rat’s ass about smoker’s habits and health choices – their body, their choice. What I do care about is when just being in the same room as someone smoking messes up my health, even if I never even get close to them.
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Most smokers would probably just go out of their way to blow smoke at it.
For whatever reason, smokers are some of the most inherently rude people I have ever seen. Ever watch one deliberately walk upwind of a group of people to light up? Or take that last huge drag on a cigarette just before getting on a bus and exhaling it onto the crowd inside?
But it’s not addicting. Of course.
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WTF? Could you not, please? What you’re doing there is called prejudice.
Also, I don’t think many smokers, regular smokers at least, claim they’re not addicted. That would be absurd.
It’s based on a lifetime of observation of the behavior of smokers.
If I could have a dollar for every time I see people smoking in front of a “No Smoking” sign, I’d not need my pension, as a brisk walk around my city daily would more than compensate…
Read some of the posts above made by smokers, not a few of whom indicate such a sign as this article discusses would cause them to blow smoke at it.
And it has been the Tobacco industry’s policy for more than a century that tobacco/nicotine is not addictive.or at least the evidence is “inconclusive”.
Notice the extent to which smokers try to dance around how offensive it is to non-smokers:
“Unless you are (a) severely asthmatic, already dying from emphysema, etc. or (b) spend a substantial portion of your lifetime in an environment smoky enough to make your eyes water, then other people’s smoking will have no significant effect on your health whatsoever.”
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So now you’re calling them rude, too? Gotcha.
In the first case, would that rudeness be to the sign itself?! This is nonsense.
In the second, probably not a statement I would have made, but what makes you such a medical authority on second-hand smoke? I mean, come on, why don’t you just admit that your experience might not be entirely representative? Or else name a few counties that your lifetime of observation comes from.
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As a smoker, THANKS John! (we’re not all rectal orifices) 
Lets be realistic Jimp: Give a class of college students an anonymous quiz and assuming they’re honest, maybe 5-8% will answer yes to having smoked a cigarette. But 95+% will say that they’ve “Broken a driving law while texting”
And seriously; a “no-smoking” sign is just a joke unless it’s on Govt. property (local, natl., etc.)…Or if under Govt. rules such as on an airplane, subway, etc…
The most anyone can do is ASK a smoker to ‘put it out’ or leave ~ and unless the cops are involved, the only ‘laws’ being broken outside are political correctness or trespassing after being asked to leave.
IE: All our local hospitals are owned by corporations. Other than common sense, it’s not the law saying we have to abide by any ‘request’ posted on their property.
Personally I smoke out on my driveway when at home, regardless of the weather. I’ve not lit a cig. in my house in 16 years !
Smoking has some good points too… It’s the stressed-out non-smokers that have been in every bar, sports arena, or work fight I’ve ever seen.
I have a history of rather severe asthma and sinus polyps. Currently, there’s a lot of things that are worse for me than secondhand smoke, mainly because there really isn’t secondhand smoke like there used to be. My state banned smoking in bars and restaurants at least ten years ago, and I haven’t worked in a place where smoking was allowed indoors in about 20 years. Everybody smoking at once in closed spaces isn’t nearly the problem it used to be. Relatively few people smoking outside is a little irritating to me, but not like exhaust fumes, harsh chemicals, etc. I’m okay with people smoking as long as they aren’t obnoxious about it.
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