Top 100 reasons not to smoke

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Nothing personal against any people who smoke, just was reading the thread where the lady decided to leave the plane (mid-flight) so that she could light up and got the idea.

Smokers are welcome to make a competing 1000 reasons to smoke thread, but please only put reasons not to smoke on this one. Thanks.

I’ll do the first 20.

  1. Kissing tastes better
  2. You could be buying chocolate instead
  3. Tobacco stains on your teeth
  4. 16 hour flights across the Atlantic
  5. There’s just something moronic about sucking poison into your body
  6. Wanting to breathe longer when playing back-yard basketball
  7. Your heart would prefer you not to
  8. People wouldn’t annoy you with lists of 1000 reasons why you shouldn’t do it if you already didn’t
  9. Moral high-ground when talking about other health issues
  10. Aircraft fuel
  11. If you’re gonna stick something betweeen your lips, there are a lot of better things to put there— like lollipops
  12. It clashes with your cologne
  13. You don’t want to support big government through the luxury tax
  14. There’s already enough pollution in Taiwan
  15. Young children have lungs, too
  16. There’s something moronic about paying good money for a poisonous product
  17. Wanting to breathe longer when you are playing full-court basketball
  18. So you can go into those exclusive “non-smoking” sections
  19. The Marlboro Man
  20. When you and a friend are running from a soul-sucking creature of the Abyss, you gotta be able to outlast him
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  1. Enjoy the complex flavors of a good meal! (Smoking does a number on the sense of taste/smell).
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  1. Just living and breathing in Taiwanese cities is the equivalent of 20 a day, do you really want to make it 40?..
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  1. It makes your clothes stink.
  2. It makes your hair stink.
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25: You might get mistaken for a fire…

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  1. Leaves you free to worry yourself to death about what other great things there are to die of other than lung cancer.
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  1. This is one that people forget about. Nicotine constricts circulation and is a risk factor for amputation.

You can sometimes tell a smoker by their facial skin as well.

[quote]who smoke often have a paler skin tone, darker circles under their eyes, more crepeyness and premature wrinkling, especially around their eyes and mouth, than non-smokers. Some of this is due to the decrease in circulation to the skin caused by nicotine. When circulation decreases, fewer nutrients can get to the skin and the skin is less able to release toxins produced by cell metabolism. This results in slow skin growth and rejuvenation. Smoking also dehydrates the skin and depletes it of vitamins A, E, C and B

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  1. You get to spend a week in a hospital, sitting next to your father’s death bed.

  2. At the end of that week, your father dies — on your birthday.

9
  1. Because you care and listen to what other people say and think.
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[quote=“TainanCowboy”]23. It makes your clothes stink.
24. It makes your hair stink.[/quote]
30. You can be on a long flight without craving a drag.

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[quote=“puiwaihin”]
4. 16 hour flights across the Atlantic
[/quote][quote=“Chris”]30. You can be on a long flight without craving a drag.[/quote]

The worst is some aircraft still have the ashtrays mounted to the seats armrest. True torture.

31-It makes you dislike puiwaihin. :wink:

bobepine

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  1. I have saved about $1,500 USD per year since I quit (almost 6 years now).
  2. I don’t get stressed out as easily, and I can handle more stress in general than when I was a smoker.
  3. Women are more attracted to me (no kidding).
  4. My supervisor no longer has it in for me since I’ve quit taking so many smoke breaks.
  5. I set a good example for my brother, who used to be a smoker as well. He decided to quit because he was so proud of me and wanted to do something equally good for himself.
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  1. You can travel over longer distance without having a smoking break every 100 km.
  2. You don’t need to carry a lighter and a box of poison with you all the time.
  3. You don’t need to get worried where you get the next one from when the you take the last cigarette out of the box.
  4. You can be of clear conscience as you don’t harm others.
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41: You don’t have to look like a dweeb when at lunchtime, you stand outside sheltering from the rain with other employees who also smoke, huddled together in small group because the company you work for no longer tolerates smoking on their premises.

42: Your teeth are white, not maggot coloured.

43: You don’t need to look away or leave the room in shame when anti smoking campaign adverts come on TV.

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  1. You don’t have to hear people telling you their top 100 reasons to quit.
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[quote=“puiwaihin”]4. 16 hour flights across the Atlantic
[/quote]

Are there any? Does this include a stopover on Ascension Island?

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I miss those. They were useful for throwing small pieces of trash in.

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[quote=“Bear Loon”][quote=“puiwaihin”]4. 16 hour flights across the Atlantic
[/quote]

Are there any?[/quote] Yes there are. I once was on a 15 hours flight from Canada to Korea.(close enough)

bobepine

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Are there any?[/quote] Yes there are. I once was on a 15 hours flight from Canada to Korea.(close enough)[/quote]
That’s one helluva fast flight. You take a rocket?

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  1. You don’t have yellow fingers anymore.
  2. you don’t have to clean out the spilled tobacco out of your purse/ pockets all the time.
  3. you don’t wake up coughing
  4. you don’t wake up with a sore throat
  5. of you DO have to go to the DR for a cough or a sore throat, now he takes you seriously.
  6. no more black bugers :laughing: