I'd like to hear the community's opinions on cigarettes.

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profit motive is bunk though (especially for drugs)

Whats there to be said?

cigarettes are pretty much bunk

I smoked for about 10 years, I can't imagine why people even smoke beyond pure habit. It really doesn't do anything for you whatsoever, just like a baby sucking on a pacifier. Smokers can't really justify the need for a cigarette like a stoner can with cannabis, it's really just about wanting it to fulfill their daily pattern.

Very habit forming and terrible for your health. Whatever benefits exist are outweighed by these factors in my mind.

"Cancer sticks" is an adequate description.

Cigarettes are absolutely horrible and I recommend quitting to anyone who uses them. Unfortunately they are socially accepted as "the" thing (together with alcohol) and their health influences (also together with alcohol) are significantly underestimated and kept silent. The tobacco industry is huge and has a huge negative influence.

I just cannot find the words to state correctly how destructive habitual smoking of cigarettes is, on so many levels.

I was always confused how the natives could see tobacco as a gateway to transcendent realms and we could cheapen it to the point of being a nearly unnoticeable thing we do almost by accident, just another commodity. I know some of it is due to the difference between nicotina rustica and the tobacco we use, but I think it says a lot about our cultural associations too. Sometimes I've actually wondered if it was given to Europeans as some sort of test of our temperaments.

Luckily I never developed much of a taste for it. I'll smoke it a few times a year. It's quite a strong drug when you don't have a tolerance built up. I could see how it could have profound effects when mixed with other plants.

how about the governments suport of cigarettes for so many years

You want to hear the nexus's opinion on cigarettes lol..

I would agree with this with the exception of electronic cigarettes, which is basically inhaling nicotine in water vapor. I used to smoke clove cigarettes (ok, they were called 'small cigars', but basically a tobacco paper cigarette), but after i got tired of the taste i quit for about a year and a half, now I have a disposable E-cig that I bought about 3 weeks ago, peach flavored of all things, I've been smoking it most often after I clock out of work, kind of helps me relax after a 9 hour day at work. I have a few friends who've been smoking real cigarettes for much longer than me and they've told me that they don't like the electronic version, telling me that they're "just not the same as the real thing", to each their own vice I suppose.

I haven't smoke a plain cigarette for over 10 years, but I do use them to roll a joint when I have some weed. I find a joint rolled with a cigarette much nicer than one rolled with anything else.

My friend smokes cigarettes because he likes them.

One of the hardest of all addictions to quit. Ever. Bar none.

I've been smoking cigarettes off and on for a few years, sometimes a pack a day sometimes much less. Never had any trouble quitting for a few weeks or a couple of months, I'm not addicted to nicotine and I don't especially like it's effects, especially when I'm sober. It's more the act of smoking a cigarette that brings me back every time. Other herbs just aren't the same. Could be the marketing, or the way they prepare the tobacco or something, but I still love to smoke cigarettes.

I hate cigerettes with all my being..
Been smoking for roughly 6 years, I'm currently 19.
I'm not a heavy smoker, just about half a pack a day. I always catch myself trying to justify my motives for smoking, which aren't even good reason.. But the addiction makes me think differently.

Not to mention, I also smoke herb along with cigerettes. Which doesn't necessarily help my health.. Regardless of the lack of health risks with herb, still..

I've been worrying more and more about my health. I tried to electronic cigerette the first time I tried to quit. I bought the white cloud, got 2 batteries, carts and a charger. I found myself smoking this damn thing all day, and when I didn't have it, I would get super agitated.. It may not be as big of a health risk as real cigerettes, but got me more addicted..

If you smoke cigerettes, quit now!
Nothing wrong with herb though

Ball and chain. Honestly, it's the best description I can give it.

You smoke it for the first few times and you wonder what it's doing other than making you feel dizzy and icky... Then all of the sudden it feels good. Why? It's just feeding the addiction that it started. That's it. There is no real relaxation, it constricts your blood vessels.

I've quit now for just over 2 years after being a full-time smoker for 10 years. Feels like I just had a cigarette; all the time.

They're like barbed meat hooks covered in anaesthesia.

They slide into your gut painlessly until one day you look down and see the barbed hook sticking out the other side of your body.

Your life force, blood, slowly trickles down your side and you leave bloody footprints everywhere you go. Your footprints burn like acid boils into the ground killing everything.

disgusting, Completely horrible for your health.

Whats most disturbing is that they raised the nicotine levels to make them more addicting.

Purely financial gain motivates this support until you take into account that the governments often have to pay for the health problems later on. I remember the days that they advertised them on television ALL the time. Look at old issues of magazines from the 1950's. 'Doctors' even recommended Camels. Those days were a little before my time.

As for my 'little' cigarette relationship, I smoked a average of pack and a half of mostly non filter cigarettes per day from age 19 til 23.. then from 29 until 35 when I last quit 19 years ago. I estimate that I smoked around 75,000 cigarettes during that time. I'm sure glad that I quit.

Oh this is good.

from Aussie forum

http://www.shaman-austra...arettes&fromsearch=1
where they are adding poisons to prevent the risk of tobacco related fires WTF!!!