The word "stinkies"

[Buggainok]

Just bugs me. It sounds like a toddler talking about #2. There has to be a better word for cigarettes. I mean, I guess it's impossible to use the actual word, but there has to be something better than stinkies. Or analogs.

Anyone?

I agree with you. I sort of "flinch" every time I see someone call them that. I just say cigarettes, because that's that I said for all the 40 plus years I smoked.

My current script when talking to friends and relatives is this: "I'm not smoking any more. I'm using e cigarettes and haven't smoked a real cigarette in over three months." Most of them either never smoked, or quit years ago. They seem to understand what I'm saying without having to get into semantics and a whole new vocabulary.

For the most part, the responses have been overwhelmingly positive, like "Oh, that's wonderful. I'm so proud of you."

 

[Mark Anthony]

I used to call them smokes.... Now I don't call them at all............

 

[CKCalmer]

At some point within my first few days here, I called them "stink sticks", but that's a bit too long to use often.

All we really have to do is wait a decade or so. Then we won't have to call them anything because they will be extinct. Wiped off the face of the Earth by vaping. Billions of lives saved.

 

[AndriaD]

I used to call them smokes.... Now I don't call them at all............

Yeah the other day when we were out, I saw someone sitting in traffic, puffing away on a stinkarette. At first, all I could think was "poor fool, doesn't know there's something better." Then I sat there, watching him smoke, and really tried to remember what it was like to smoke a cigarette... all I can really remember was stuff like, dropping ashes down my clothes... getting smoke in my eyes... having to roll down the window to let out the smoke, even if it was sub-freezing or 98 degrees out there... needing a smoke but coughing up lungs so much I didn't dare... daring anyway, only to choke and gasp like dying... and of course, the half-hour of coughing in the morning before I dared go out for a smoke, then the half-hour of coughing that ensued after finally getting that first one. But the actual experience of smoking? I don't seem to have any significant memories of that at all, and it really hasn't been that long. Really weird. That last pk can sit there on the bookshelf and mummify, for all I care.

Andria

 

[CKCalmer]

That last pk can sit there on the bookshelf and mummify, for all I care.

I was thinking of having my last, unopened pack of Salems poured in clear resin like a fly in amber and then framed to hang on my wall with a little caption: "Unsmoked & Unwanted".

 

[Nermal]

Stinky is just too filled with contempt for a group most of us were a part of for too many years. I call them cigarettes.

 

[CKCalmer]

Stinky is just too filled with contempt for a group most of us were a part of for too many years. I call them cigarettes.

Point well taken. But my own contempt isn't focused on the group we belonged to, but on what the cigs were doing to us.

I'll have no problem calling them the ugliest words I will ever be able to think of.

 

[jp_cfc09]

to be honest I dont mind stinkies, it could be worst really. people here in the uk call them fags which annoys me more lol. suppose the normal cigarette word is best suited really but slang words are just that slang, you can use anything you want.

 

[Moedog]

Yeah, I hate the expression, "stinkies." Sounds like something truth.org would come up with in their campaign to insult and vilify smokers and that's the last thing I want to be involved in. On the other hand, I think "analogs" is appropriate.

 

[sneakerpimp]

looks like we got a new s-word

 

[Bernard Marx]

It's weird but I sort of like the term 'stinkies.'

Stinkies, stinkies, stinkies, yeah, stinkies.

Although 'Stinkarettes' really is brilliant.

 

[FlamingoTutu]

Can’t say I terribly care about it one way or the other but where it makes me grin to see it used is in the vaperversary threads. “Congratulations on being off the stinkies” for X amount of time. Let’s face it, we all know we used to stink.

 

[sneakerpimp]

Yeah the other day when we were out, I saw someone sitting in traffic, puffing away on a stinkarette. At first, all I could think was "poor fool, doesn't know there's something better." Then I sat there, watching him smoke, and really tried to remember what it was like to smoke a cigarette... all I can really remember was stuff like, dropping ashes down my clothes... getting smoke in my eyes... having to roll down the window to let out the smoke, even if it was sub-freezing or 98 degrees out there... needing a smoke but coughing up lungs so much I didn't dare... daring anyway, only to choke and gasp like dying... and of course, the half-hour of coughing in the morning before I dared go out for a smoke, then the half-hour of coughing that ensued after finally getting that first one. But the actual experience of smoking? I don't seem to have any significant memories of that at all, and it really hasn't been that long. Really weird. That last pk can sit there on the bookshelf and mummify, for all I care.

Andria

i think this one is starting to grow on me.

 

[daviedog]

I went to school in UK circa 70's. We used the word Barons for cigs.
The great unwashed,Fags. I may be wrong but I think faggots is OE for embers..

 

[Nermal]

Point well taken. But my own contempt isn't focused on the group we belonged to, but on what the cigs were doing to us.

Fair point. Not enough to change my mind, but a fair point indeed.

 

[doghair]

We used to call them dirt boys,

 

[Ravensfan]

What is wrong with the word cigarette? We all smoked the things for years. I don't think any of us had a gun pointed to our heads to do it. I always swore that if I ever really gave up smoking that I would never become one of those overzealous non-smokers trying to impose my will on everyone. I'm not saying anyone on this thread is that way, but I see hints of it on this forum. I cringe when I see things posted on here like, "you expect me to vape with the smokers?", or "I was behind a smoker at the DMV today and nearly gagged". Smokers aren't rabid dogs or unwashed hobos. They are people with an addiction that we all had, and to some extent still have. Most want to quit. Some never will. We all know how hard it is, and it is still somewhat of a free country.

 

[Fulgurant]

I went to school in UK circa 70's. We used the word Barons for cigs.
The great unwashed,Fags. I may be wrong but I think faggots is OE for embers..

Yup -- well, basically: Online Etymology Dictionary

 

[Craybee]

What is wrong with the word cigarette? We all smoked the things for years. I don't think any of us had a gun pointed to our heads to do it.

shhhh!!!!! don't give big tobaccy any ideas dagnabbit! they figured out how to pump them things full of thousands of toxins to keep us craving more. i would't put it past them to figure out how to stuff a little gangsta midget with a gun and an itchy trigger finger in each pack.

 

[Ravensfan]

shhhh!!!!! don't give big tobaccy any ideas dagnabbit! they figured out how to pump them things full of thousands of toxins to keep us craving more. i would't put it past them to figure out how to pack a little gangsta midget with a gun and an itchy trigger finger in each pack.

BT did some nasty things in order to make a profit, but I certainly didn't think the things were good for me when I started 25 years ago. When we bought our first pack of cigarettes we all were basically committing to trying it at least 20 times. That's the foundation of a habit without any added addictive chemicals. Even with all we know, there are still plenty of new smokers lighting up for the first time every day.