[tiger08]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Tazz beat me to it. I do not forcibly shove alcohol down the throats of people around me, unlike smokers. I am also a friendly, happy drunk unlike your family is. So you became an obnoxious smoker, instead of a drinker, who cares...

You didnt read the part where I said I dont smoke around non smokers.

[WhistlerMCMLV]

Originally Posted by yellowsnow

Fanaticism has it's own price to pay(about anything, not just smoking) and it's unhealthy too. Raises the blood pressure among other things.

It also raises---I should say re-raises---the point that the fanatic has little discernible interest in letting people alone, even as he or she might demand concurrently and in other contexts, with other stimuli, to be let alone themselves.

At minimum, such fanatics are mere nuisances. At maximum, they run for office, get elected, and help metastasise government as the biggest public nuisance of them all.

[tazz]

Originally Posted by tiger08

Oh, o.k. They just go out and drive drunk and kill friends and family.

You missed the part where this thread is not about driving drunk. Smoke 10 more cigarettes in the next 10 minutes and try to calm down, will ya?

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

I smoked for 25 years before I saw the light and found the guts to quit cold turkey. And that is all it takes. GUTS! If you don't have any maybe you'll find your guts when you're gasping for breath and crying for your mommy. I quit too late and now I'm paying for it.

And for those that have had near-fatal car accidents, many of those people saw the light and had the guts to quit that dangeous, nasty habit of driving a car as well. And many of those, who never smoked, were gasping for breath and crying for mommy when they made the decision to quit the habit of owning and driving a car.

Paying $7 a pack to kill oneself? Yes, there have been those unforunate enough too die in car accidents who paid $15k, $20k, $30k to kill themselves.

I don't smoke the cancer sticks from the stores. I quit that long ago. Now I roll my own with more natural, chemical free tobacco.

And I'll keep smoking, choosing to die from lung cancer rather than stick around for the enevitable nuclear holocaust. There'll be lots and lots of smoke around when that happens. Smoke from burning hair, burning skin, burning houses, cars, etc.

[tiger08]

Originally Posted by tazz

You missed the part where this thread is not about driving drunk. Smoke 10 more cigarettes in the next 10 minutes and try to calm down, will ya?

O.k. I'll do that but let me eat dinner real quick.

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by tiger08

You didnt read the part where I said I dont smoke around non smokers.

I really owe you an apology. If you truly do not smoke around non smokers, then I have no problem with you. The problem is most smokers DO smoke in public, and I am one of the rare people who are allergic to it. It really makes me sick.

[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

Unfortunately, I have lost several good friends and close relatives to smoking and they died very agonizing deaths. It was hard to watch them go.

Isn't it interesting, that these former smokers are so quick to mention close friends and relatives having agonizing deaths due to smoking, but will never mention a close friend or relative who experienced an agonizing death due to the dangerous, self-destructive habit of driving a car or dying a result of obesity, alcoholism or workaholism?

Death can come to any of us at the next intersection, a nonsmoking driver blowing through the next stop light and colliding with a recovering smoker.

I sure hope there wasn't someone rushing to 9/11 at the World Trade Center in New York City, speeding up to some high floor in one of those towers to brag to co-workers they just quit smoking over the weekend. Oh the irony of it!

[swagger]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I do not forcibly shove alcohol down the throats of people around me, unlike smokers.

Don't start with that, LVD. Nobody's FORCING you to hang out in casinos to soak up free booze all day. If you don't want to be somewhere where people are doing something that's perfectly legal in an establishment that permits it, don't go there. How hard is that to understand?

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

I am also a friendly, happy drunk

Until you throw your drink on someone...

At least you appear to be closer to admitting that you're an alcoholic. Keep working on it. If you ever actually admit it and decide to take action, you just might earn some of my respect.

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by las vegas drunk

Tazz beat me to it. I do not forcibly shove alcohol down the throats of people around me, unlike smokers. I am also a friendly, happy drunk unlike your family is. So you became an obnoxious smoker, instead of a drinker, who cares...

FAIL.......
"I was at a major casino on the strip playing craps a couple of months ago. I had been at the table for a few hours, and not one person was ever smoking at the table, even know it was busy. This guy joins the table right next to me. He immediately started smoking. I politely asked him to try to smoke away from me. His response was "this is the casino, I can smoke as much as I want!!!" Now, I never told him not to smoke, just to keep it away from me. Since he really was a jerk about it, I started building up anger inside. Once my eyes starting watering, and I started getting sick from it, I finally could not take it anymore. The waitress came by at that time, and I ended up throwing my whole drink on him ( the rum and coke only, not the glass) and promptly leaving right away. It didn't matter, security got me and now I am banned from this casino for the rest of my life because of his lack of courtesy and respect. He completely deserved it IMO, I did not."

https://www.city-data.com/forum/10015949-post56.html

[las vegas drunk]

Originally Posted by swagger

Don't start with that, LVD. Nobody's FORCING you to hang out in casinos to soak up free booze all day. If you don't want to be somewhere where people are doing something that's perfectly legal in an establishment that permits it, don't go there. How hard is that to understand?

Until you throw your drink on someone...

At least you appear to be closer to admitting that you're an alcoholic. Keep working on it. If you ever actually admit it and decide to take action, you just might earn some of my respect.

I am a little confused on this? I have admitted I am an alcoholic many times. My screen name Las Vegas Drunk admits it right there.