Do you smoke?

[Atlantagaguy]

Just an observation, it seems the percentage of gays smoking is higher than Str8? What do you think? I am an ex smoker for20yrs.

[jawjateck]

Nope. Not even once. Can't stand the smell of cigs, for which prolonged second-hand exposure can give me a headache, and cigars and pipes make me nauseated. Dope is beyond disgusting. YUCK to all of it!

[Samai139]

Haven't smoked cigarettes for 28 years and commiserate with those who do and have a tough time giving them up, and look at young people who smoke with sadness because they just don't understand the long-term effects of actions they take---and I include myself in that statement when I was that age.

As far as gays vs. straights? Don't know but I would speculate that people who smoke tend to have less formal education than non-smokers and also lower incomes. Here in New York City/State and in Ontario and Quebec Provinces, smoking is strictly limited in many places so it may be tough to observe in areas where gay people gather.

[jjkrkwood]

On the contrary, i think its quite the opposite... My parents were Big smokers. I was always Repulsed by it.... Never even tried it...

[jgoo]

I really enjoy a quality cigar but limit myself to indulging only on special occasions.

 

I hadn't thought about or noticed if more smokers are gay or str8. I'll have to do a survey of smokers I see outside and ask if they are gay or str8.

[wayout]

Never smoked but here is what I observed, particularly related to a wedding reception I attended this past weekend. I was absolutely amazed at the number of young guys standing outside smoking. Very few young women and very few over the age of 25 I would say. It may be something about being cool, belonging/fitting in or going through a phase of sorts. I hope and pray they kick the habit before too long.

 

I have a best friend who started smoking around 21 and today he is about 42 so he has been smoking for about 20 years. I've tried to convince him to quite but to no avail. A relatively intelligent guy otherwise but he is blind to this or is totally addicted. It is a timebomb waiting to go off and I dread the day when he is diagnosed with cancer or emphysema.

[josephga]

Nope Don't smoke. My best friend of 15 year died in 09 from lung cancer. She was a heavy smoker almost 2 packs a day starting around the age of 15. On Halloween 2008 she was struck from behind by a drunk driver causing a back injury. When she went in for a MRI and other tests they found stage 4 lung cancer. She died 9 months later

[happyguy2]

I have never smoked, simply can't. My parents never smoked either. Never even tried a cigar or a pipe! Whenever I cam home from a dance or a bar when I was young, the smell of my clothes the next day was horrible.

[Boner]

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[MFLV]

Nope, never smoked. I ran in high school and in college so I knew that smoking wasnt good for the lungs. We would run 10 miles in the am and another 10 miles in the Pm

so I needed lungs to be a full capacity!! As an aside we were National Champions my freshman year and also very tired

[+ Charlie]

When I was young, it seemed like most men smoked, so to be a non-smoker made one stand out as "different," which most young gay men wanted to avoid. I started smoking at 17. I spent a lot of time in gay bars then, which were full of smokers. I finally stopped forty-two years ago. After that was when I started to realize how awful it smelled on other people. Now I don't even let people smoke in my home; they can sit outside by the pool to do it.

[Michael Wayne]

never smoked. most clients HATE it. I am, however, very tolerant of my clients who do smoke which surprises them. Who am I to tell them what they can or cant do in their own home? http://www.rentboy.com/mikey9nola1

[seeker630]

I didn't pick up the habit until grad school. I grew up in a home in which my grandfather smoked unfiltered Lucky Strikes even though he had emphysema.

 

I smoked for about 10-15 years before quitting. (I was motivated by the fact that none of my close friends smoked.) It took me 3 attempts to quit; twice, after quitting, I resumed, telling myself I would limit my consumption or only smoke when I enjoyed it (vs. the habitual ones), but I was back up to a pack a day pretty quickly.

 

I've now been smoke-free for about 30 years and really dislike the slightest trace of cigarette smoke.

 

I don't see a lot of people smoking in the places I go, but I don't tend to go where younger people congregate.

[Decatur Guy]

In my 20s and 30s, I used to smoke a cigar once in a blue moon. I don't even do that now.

[+ Lucky]

I smoked for 19 years before thinking to ask myself, WWJD? Then it became obvious that i had to quit, and I did.

[rvwnsd]

Nope, never smoked. In general, smoking and asthma don't mix very well.

[maxwellissmart]

I've only had one client in the past year who smoked and it was so overwhelming I thought I was going to have to stop the appointment. I remember the good old days of going out to the bar and coming home smelling absolutely awful from the cigarettes, to the point where I couldn't stand to get into bed unless I had a shower first.

[bigvalboy]

So many people I know don't smoke...cigarettes, let's be clear hear. Myself included, but I know a disturbing number of 2o something kids who do smoke, ever thing from cigarettes to God know what. Well he knows, but it is not worth the mention of the obvious....sad really. But then again my generation did all that and more, and as a generation, by and large we turned out fairly productive.

[Guest countryboywny]

Yep, I smoke like a chimney. :o

[Bob]

The best 45 years of my life were when I was smoking cigarettes. I loved it; I loved smoking. Seven years ago a friend who was living with me at the time wanted to quit so I joined his effort in support. I succeeded; he didn't. Since then I have gained a ton of weight, developed high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. Am I better off? At least the politicians don't reap any more benefit at my expense.

[Phil_musc]

Bob, wouldn't those 45 years have been the best years of your life regardless if you didn't smoke?

 

Boner, thanks for the video - loved it. It's amazing how people thought that watching smoke come out of someone's mouth was somehow cool and sexy. Proof that people can be made to believe almost anything.

 

On the other hand I have smoked a cigar (more than once) just for the experience. Normally I hate the smell, but when doing it myself it was ok. Probably if I watched me while I was smoking the cigar, I'd probably say, "Dude, what are you doing and who do you think you're kidding? That is so not you."

[jimboivyo]

no one can deny that smoking is a leading cause of cancer. i'm sure those blasted tanning beds are up there somewhere too. I dislike both.

 

I smoked for a few months, but gave it up. it was only a social thing at the time (70s). now, i can't tolerate the smell or the taste. I choose not to see escorts who smoke.

[maxwellissmart]

no one can deny that smoking is a leading cause of cancer...

 

Sadly, people do just that all the time. Hell, some McDonald's "chef" was just in the news recently for saying that nothing on the menu was unhealthy.

[jjkrkwood]

Sadly, people do just that all the time. Hell, some McDonald's "chef" was just in the news recently for saying that nothing on the menu was unhealthy.

 

Well if you really think about it, each ingredient, in and of itself might not be unhealthy, but when you put it all together, and fry it in grease, that changes everything...

 

But I still say, Heaven is sinking your teeth into a "Whopper".....

[maxwellissmart]

Well if you really think about it, each ingredient, in and of itself might not be unhealthy, but when you put it all together, and fry it in grease, that changes everything...

 

But I still say, Heaven is sinking your teeth into a "Whopper".....

 

Fool, that's over to the Burga Kang.

 

Personally I like Arby's and Five Guys.