Dear analogue smokers, I promise...

[knobbysmoo]

that after 33 years of finally giving up that habit......




1) to cheerfully show you my pv and tell you all about them if you ask
2) to never become an anti-smoking zealot
3) to never give you the disgusted sideways, eye rolling look
4) to never "cough" when you light up around me
5) to pull over as often as you need me to if you are in my car
6) to never lecture you about where you throw your butts
7) to never lecture you about the health effects of smoking
8) to never judge you
9) to never forget how hard it is to quit
10) to celebrate with you if you are excited about making it even one day without smoking
11) to make you a comfortable place outside to smoke so you don't feel like you are being punished
12) to never gripe about the lingering smell that follows you when you come back in the house
13) to never feel superior to you
14) to stand up for your rights any chance I get

 

[mccawley]

To condemn you for your habit
To tease you about smelling like an ashtray
To mock you when you stand in the rain to suck one down

To..... oh wait....

To loan you money when you need a smoke
To let you use my de-bridged atomizer to light your analog
To....umm... yeah I got nothing!

 

[JupiterV]

Love it.
Smokers are people too.

 

[mccawley]

Smoking just seems so nasty and barbaric now.
But I don't judge those who still smoke.

It's not my job to preach to them, condemn them, or otherwise mock them.
I was there.
I didn't like it.

 

[banjo]

Great post & excellent rules for vapors attitude to those still hooked on analogs.............

 

[tenzip]

I agree with all but this one:

6) to never lecture you about where you throw your butts

Sorry, can't do that one.

Stick it in your pocket, find a trash can. Litter is litter.

 

[DC2]

6) to never lecture you about where you throw your butts

Sorry, I'm going to have to continue doing this one.
It isn't hypocrisy though, since I didn't throw my butts on the ground when I smoked.

Not that I have anything against hypocrisy.

 

[mccawley]

I always twisted the .... until the tobacco all fell out to ensure it wasn't burning, then carried it with me to a garbage can, empty soda cup, or the plastic cigarette wrapper. Never tossed on the ground.

Oh wait there were a few exceptions. In designated smoking sections where there was no ashtray.
I mean, if you designate an area for smoking have an ash tray! Really?

 

[NCC]

I agree with all but this one:

Quote Originally Posted by knobbysmoo
6) to never lecture you about where you throw your butts

Sorry, can't do that one.

Stick it in your pocket, find a trash can. Litter is litter.

Agreed. Even as a smoker, that was a stickler for me. I'll go with the rest though

 

[mccawley]

Yup, the rest I can agree to.

 

[knobbysmoo]

I never threw mine on the ground either and would pick up friends' and throw them away. I put this one in because I know some smoker's are so use to being vilified about everything that goes along with the habit that whenever I use to say anything they would just do it to antagonize me.

 

[CarolT]

If you were capable of standing up for smokers' rights you never would have been bullied into quitting. And the anti-smokers will simply re-use their same old lie and smear machine against vapers, and you STILL won't be capable of standing up for your rights.

 

[NCC]

If you were capable of standing up for smokers' rights you never would have been bullied into quitting.

I think I missed something here. WHO was bullied into quitting cigarettes? I'll go out on a limb here and say nearly everyone who has quit smoking cigarettes feels liberated from them, not deprived of them.

Especially those of us who painlessly switched to our reduced harm alternative. I know I certainly do not feel bullied. That clearly implies we have been deprived of something. Nothing could be further from the truth.

 

[mdocod]

I agree with the sentiments against littering with butts. I always did the "twist-off-n-trash-it" method as described by mccawley. I did give smokers a hard time about chucking butts wherever they pleased even when I smoked.

 

[stkbow]

I'm guessing you guys that field stripped your butts were Military? I'll never forget having to run all over base trying to fill a couple grocery bags up with butts. Because a anti smoking captain saw one on his way into work and decided all of "his smokers" should do something about it. I wouldn't have minded so much if it wasn't meant as a punishment. I vow never to be that guy! great post.

 

[RIMP]

I'm guessing you guys that field stripped your butts were Military? I'll never forget having to run all over base trying to fill a couple grocery bags up with butts. Because a anti smoking captain saw one on his way into work and decided all of "his smokers" should do something about it. I wouldn't have minded so much if it wasn't meant as a punishment. I vow never to be that guy! great post.

Guilty as charged Even after I left the Army I kept on doing it
RIMP

 

[tenzip]

I wasn't in the service, but I sometimes field-stripped them. More often, I just popped them whole into whatever I had handy and tucked it into my pocket. Piece of paper, plastic, candy wrapper, whatever.

Sadly, (almost) anyplace you are, there's going to be litter. I picked it up and used it as a container for my butts.

 

[knobbysmoo]

If you were capable of standing up for smokers' rights you never would have been bullied into quitting. And the anti-smokers will simply re-use their same old lie and smear machine against vapers, and you STILL won't be capable of standing up for your rights.

Just because the anti-smoking zealots are winning does not mean people have not been standing up for their rights, it just means we have not made the headway that they have. Noone ever "bullied" me into quitting. I chose to quit because I was starting to feel the effects on my health. The transition to vaping was so easy I have rarely even had a twitch to go back.

 

[fallon74]

That is very nice of you!!!

 

[sophie_lapin]

Love this thread and I agree with the others about the butts. Im not going to lecture about litter, but I will think it in the back of my head.
Don't people feel the least bit guilty throwing trash on the ground???