geetee
Landlord.
Growing up with my mother smoking I could not stand smoke and could not even go upstairs on a bus, glad to say she put me off it for life!
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Growing up with my mother smoking I could not stand smoke and could not even go upstairs on a bus, glad to say she put me off it for life!
Godsdog
Landlord.
my old mates dad back in the late 60s used to smoke senior service or capstan full strength now there were two great smokes back in the day,anyway he would smoke 5/6 at a go lighting one off the butt end of the previous one ,come the early 80s he had to have both his legs off due to smoking related then shortly after succumbed to lung cancer.if you can do yourself one favour for your health its to kick this killer habit
My Granddad used to smoke capstan full strength, he died in his early seventies from pneumonia.
3 years between these two videos by rjthesmoker.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudCCZjiz_I[/ame]
1966 - 2016 - 50 years old!
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBj8r50-PSg[/ame]
His mate is gutted but has a fag while talking about his death!
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMOkUOpA2o[/ame]
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mudCCZjiz_I[/ame]
1966 - 2016 - 50 years old!
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBj8r50-PSg[/ame]
His mate is gutted but has a fag while talking about his death!
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOMOkUOpA2o[/ame]
Godsdog
Landlord.
if ever there was a thread on here to convince you to do something for your own health/benefit this is the one.sadly this guy in the video will probably suffer the exact same fate and is too ignorant to see and appreciate it
Did you know chippy that those "Film Stars" were actually paid by Tobacco companies to smoke in films to make it look cool.
It is insidious
These people are not stupid they are addicts.
Have you ever smoked?
We all drink alcohol which is not good for us we know it but we carry on does that make us stupid?
Being unable to break an addiction is not stupid. There's a word for it, but it sure ain't 'stupid'.
You have to question the thought processes of a person who would say it is.
Don't think you're being nasty atall fella. It was then that I changed "upstairs" and hated the damn things for it.
Having said that if your gonna quit to quickly you have to pay the piper i suppose.
My mates father-in-Law was a great smoker and died of lung cancer aged about 55 ...
... but that isn't why I remember Pop. :nono: :nono:
Pop was a lumper down on the fish-docks, generally worked nights and enjoyed his fags and a few beers.
As a lumper he was never going to be wildly rich so his missus was very pleased when he announced that he was going into work a couple of hours early two nights a week, for a bit of overtime to help support his smoking and drinking.
That was until one evening, about a month later, when one of Pop's mates from work came round to see him and discovered that he was working overtime. "I've not been offered any overtime." he said in a huff when Pop's wife explained where he was; and the response got Pop's missus doing a bit of thinking as a result.
To cut a long story short, the very next time Pop went out to do a bit of overtime she followed him ...
... all the way to the widowed ladies house, five doors down the street, where Pop was putting in all kinds of unpaid overtime.
Pop definitely wasn't stupid and at that time (the 1960's) the tobacco companies were spending millions of pounds to explain that smoking tobacco was almost good for you ...
... but after the roasting Pop's missus gave him I would think that dying was almost a blessed relief! :whistle:
... but that isn't why I remember Pop. :nono: :nono:
Pop was a lumper down on the fish-docks, generally worked nights and enjoyed his fags and a few beers.
As a lumper he was never going to be wildly rich so his missus was very pleased when he announced that he was going into work a couple of hours early two nights a week, for a bit of overtime to help support his smoking and drinking.
That was until one evening, about a month later, when one of Pop's mates from work came round to see him and discovered that he was working overtime. "I've not been offered any overtime." he said in a huff when Pop's wife explained where he was; and the response got Pop's missus doing a bit of thinking as a result.
To cut a long story short, the very next time Pop went out to do a bit of overtime she followed him ...
... all the way to the widowed ladies house, five doors down the street, where Pop was putting in all kinds of unpaid overtime.
Pop definitely wasn't stupid and at that time (the 1960's) the tobacco companies were spending millions of pounds to explain that smoking tobacco was almost good for you ...
... but after the roasting Pop's missus gave him I would think that dying was almost a blessed relief! :whistle:
Graz
Landlord.
I smoked from about 16 to 33, I'm now 44. Never heavily, probably about 30-40 a week at the peak, really used to enjoy a fag and a pint. Dabbled with the whacky backy in my student days too. I gave up when I met my now wife as she didn't smoke and didn't want to date a smoker.
About this time two years ago I had a suspicious chest X-Ray due to a cough I couldn't shift, swiftly followed by a CT scan, bronchoscopy, and finally a biopsy under general anaesthetic. Cr*pping myself the whole time that I had the big C and that smoking in my younger days was totally to blame.
Luckily it wasn't, had a rare autoimmune disease called Sarcoidosis instead which was affecting my lymph glands and lungs, now controlled by medication. Smoking for me now would be a very bad thing as the disease can damage my lungs. Weirdly though having looked into it a bit there's no known link between smoking and sarcoid, even read a report that suggested smokers are less likely to get it!
But the moral of this story is not to smoke as there's no getting away from the fact that it's really bad for you. Also spending the day on a chest ward whilst my biopsy op was done is very eye opening, some folk in there who were properly messed up due to the damage that smoking had done to their lungs.
About this time two years ago I had a suspicious chest X-Ray due to a cough I couldn't shift, swiftly followed by a CT scan, bronchoscopy, and finally a biopsy under general anaesthetic. Cr*pping myself the whole time that I had the big C and that smoking in my younger days was totally to blame.
Luckily it wasn't, had a rare autoimmune disease called Sarcoidosis instead which was affecting my lymph glands and lungs, now controlled by medication. Smoking for me now would be a very bad thing as the disease can damage my lungs. Weirdly though having looked into it a bit there's no known link between smoking and sarcoid, even read a report that suggested smokers are less likely to get it!
But the moral of this story is not to smoke as there's no getting away from the fact that it's really bad for you. Also spending the day on a chest ward whilst my biopsy op was done is very eye opening, some folk in there who were properly messed up due to the damage that smoking had done to their lungs.
My Granddad used to smoke capstan full strength, he died in his early seventies from pneumonia.
I used to smoke those too. Even as a then regular smoker I remember you felt 'different' after getting through one or two of them. And in addition to above I also smoked untipped versions of Senior Service, Players, Capstan ordinary (blue packet), Piccadilly, Gold Flake, Weights, but mostly Park Drive which I got into when I started a holiday building job cos all the blokes I worked with smoked them, how's that for wanting to be 'part of the gang'. And this is in the days when there was no reduced tar cigs, only Silk Cut which everyone thought were for wimps
.And on reflection if the legislators reduce the strength of cigs people probably tend to smoke more to compensate for the reduced hit, which in turn means more money for the Exchequer.
Finally I still cannot get over some cigs now costing �ã10 a packet. Utter madness.
I guess most of us started on the Embassy brands, what were the more "unusual" brands you tried, mine was these with a tear pack.
Visited someone I know today,chronic heavy smoker. ..suffered a clot this time last year,only spoke to his wife as the nurse was there. ..had a stroke in November and half a leg amputated. A family in bits...
Cheers
Clint
Cheers
Clint
chub1
Junior Member
Only ever tried one Capstan full strengthI used to smoke those too. Even as a then regular smoker I remember you felt 'different' after getting through one or two of them. And in addition to above I also smoked untipped versions of Senior Service, Players, Capstan ordinary (blue packet), Piccadilly, Gold Flake, Weights, but mostly Park Drive which I got into when I started a holiday building job cos all the blokes I worked with smoked them, how's that for wanting to be 'part of the gang'. And this is in the days when there was no reduced tar cigs, only Silk Cut which everyone thought were for wimps
And on reflection if the legislators reduce the strength of cigs people probably tend to smoke more to compensate for the reduced hit, which in turn means more money for the Exchequer.
Finally I still cannot get over some cigs now costing ��ã10 a packet. Utter madness.
:-o, never ever went near one again
I tried one of my granddads when i was a smoker and as you say never again.
