On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:10:51 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck
wrote:

On Oct 14, 2:55*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:55:44 -0400, Robert Green wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message

I used to smoke, but haven't in at least ten years now. *Now, my wife or
I can smell it a mile away, and if we come in contact with someone
smoking, can smell it on our clothes when we get home. *I can tell when
I'm within ten foot of a smoker, even if they aren't smoking.

We were in New Orleans a while back and though we asked for a non-smoking
room, we were assigned to one that smelled as if someone had been
deliberately smoked to death inside it. *The drapes, the bed covers, the
rugs all STANK of smoke to the extent that I had to wonder when they last
cleaned anything.

If you want to make yourself sick, buy small portable UV lamp and examine
the floors and the bedcovers. *Yuk. *Now, it's even worse. *I've known two
people that have brought home bedbugs after staying at what most would
consider top-end hotel chains. *If the guest before you had them, you'll
get them, too.

I got a $10 discount for complaining when something bit the hell out of me
in a motel in Kansas City.

Sometimes, when I buy something from Ebay, it's saturated with cigarette
smells (or worse). *The last item I bought smelled of cherry pipe tobacco,
two smells that definitely DON'T belong together.

So, do all antismokerists who join the church automatically come down
with hypersensitivity disorder?

Thanks,
Rich

Nope. I smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day for nearly 15 years.
I quit in 1984. Haven't touched one since. Often while working,I still
find myself reaching into my pocket looking for cigarettes. I still
like the smell, amd I don't avoid it at all.

Ditto, sorta. I was never that heavy a smoker but I smoked for
considerably longer. Smokes were 19 cents a pack, $1.90 a carton in
the Army commissaries and PX's back in the day, and they were
distributed in field rations. About everyone smoked in the bad old
days. I quit and resumed several times, didn't finally quit until
2008. There has never been any cancer in my family so I figured I was
good to go with genetics ... but I didn't realize that heart disease
was also a risk factor. I understood that heart was about cholesterol,
lung cancer was about asbestos and smoking, my cholesterol was OK,
etc. Bonk!

I dreamt about smoking last night.

I've always been somewhat fatalistic since military service. I've been
living on borrowed time for decades, narrowly dodged the grim reaper's
scythe a couple of times, and I'm enjoying the ride.

There is zero chance that I will resume smoking unless Mary dies
before me. If that happens, then I won't give a **** and may engage
upon all manner of dangerous and possibly illegal adventures with
questionable chance of long-term survival but high probability of
short-term satisfaction.

So pray for Mary and don't **** me off. G

"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:10:51 -0700 (PDT), rangerssuck
wrote:

On Oct 14, 2:55 pm, Rich Grise wrote:
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:55:44 -0400, Robert Green wrote:
"Steve B" wrote in message

I used to smoke, but haven't in at least ten years now. Now, my wife
or
I can smell it a mile away, and if we come in contact with someone
smoking, can smell it on our clothes when we get home. I can tell
when
I'm within ten foot of a smoker, even if they aren't smoking.

We were in New Orleans a while back and though we asked for a
non-smoking
room, we were assigned to one that smelled as if someone had been
deliberately smoked to death inside it. The drapes, the bed covers,
the
rugs all STANK of smoke to the extent that I had to wonder when they
last
cleaned anything.

If you want to make yourself sick, buy small portable UV lamp and
examine
the floors and the bedcovers. Yuk. Now, it's even worse. I've known
two
people that have brought home bedbugs after staying at what most would
consider top-end hotel chains. If the guest before you had them,
you'll
get them, too.

I got a $10 discount for complaining when something bit the hell out
of me
in a motel in Kansas City.

Sometimes, when I buy something from Ebay, it's saturated with
cigarette
smells (or worse). The last item I bought smelled of cherry pipe
tobacco,
two smells that definitely DON'T belong together.

So, do all antismokerists who join the church automatically come down
with hypersensitivity disorder?

Thanks,
Rich

Nope. I smoked 3 packs of unfiltered Camels a day for nearly 15 years.
I quit in 1984. Haven't touched one since. Often while working,I still
find myself reaching into my pocket looking for cigarettes. I still
like the smell, amd I don't avoid it at all.

Ditto, sorta. I was never that heavy a smoker but I smoked for
considerably longer. Smokes were 19 cents a pack, $1.90 a carton in
the Army commissaries and PX's back in the day, and they were
distributed in field rations. About everyone smoked in the bad old
days. I quit and resumed several times, didn't finally quit until
2008. There has never been any cancer in my family so I figured I was
good to go with genetics ... but I didn't realize that heart disease
was also a risk factor. I understood that heart was about cholesterol,
lung cancer was about asbestos and smoking, my cholesterol was OK,
etc. Bonk!

I dreamt about smoking last night.

I've always been somewhat fatalistic since military service. I've been
living on borrowed time for decades, narrowly dodged the grim reaper's
scythe a couple of times, and I'm enjoying the ride.

There is zero chance that I will resume smoking unless Mary dies
before me. If that happens, then I won't give a **** and may engage
upon all manner of dangerous and possibly illegal adventures with
questionable chance of long-term survival but high probability of
short-term satisfaction.

So pray for Mary and don't **** me off. G

PAGING DIOGENES!

PAGING DIOGENES!

REPORT TO BASE AND CHECK IN FIELD ISSUED LANTERN!

I have a secret bucket list in case mine should take a cab before me, too.

Steve ;-)