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Why smoking pipes (tobacco) has no virtues...

JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
edited August 2011 in General Banter
This topic came up in my thread about smoking pipes and memories knowledge about breaking in pipes and so forth.

Please discuss the thread title here.

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  • robotrobot Veteran
    It doesn't taste as good as it smells. It looks stupid.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    I wouldn't say it has no virtues. I like the taste, the smell, the feeling. It also is a acetylcholine (is that it?) agonist which helps with some of the side effects of antipsychotics.
  • robotrobot Veteran
    I guess I could see the appeal it might have. I tried it when I smoked as a teenager. I also chewed tobacco, the leaf and the powdered kind. That was truly disgusting. The loggers I was working with at the time were into it. All in all I couldn't get get past the fact that it is toxic as hell in any form and I want to live for as long as I can to make the most of the things I worked so hard to learn.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Thats a good point. Its all fun and games until a health problem. I was thinking of smoking maybe twice a month in part for memories of my dad. You can't even smoke more than once a day with a pipe or at least your not supposed to. I was a week with family and I smoked twice. At that level I think the health risks are much smaller, though not all that smaller. If anything my weight will kill me before smoking I am about 190 and 5' 8"
  • robotrobot Veteran
    My brother keeps a pack of Rothmans in a cabinet as a reminder of my dad. Not because they killed him,(he died as the result of a heart attack he had while having sex with my stepmother, Viagra poisoning, I call it), but because he smoked so many of them. Kind of like a shrine. You are about the same dimensions as me but I am much older than you. I was concerned about my conditioning, so I went to the gym every day last winter. Its never too late to get strong again is what I found out.
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