Hmm.Smoking makes me poor and smelly, and if I do it too much it seems liable to make me ill. I only do it outdoors or when sharing a space with other smokers (e.g. smoking sections of pubs). I avoid doing it over bar staff and others because it's grotty and they aren't given the choice.
At the moment I'm not doing it too much and am successfully training for a charity run without coughing fits or being unable to run more than a mile or two.
If I had kids (god forbid) they wouldn't see me smoke.
On balance I reckon the pleasure I get from it outweighs the negatives (poor, smelly, danger of doom, social pariah-ness in some circles).
By 'research' I mean I might rootle out a bunch of scientific papers from both sides of the smoking=death argument and weigh things up myself so as to make at least a partially-informed decision.
Anyone particularly anti-smoking or particularly pro-smoking out there can think of a paper I particularly shouldn't miss, please Gaz me the details. I promise not to ignore it.
(At the moment I'm not doing it too much and am successfully training for a charity run without coughing fits or being unable to run more than a mile or two.
If I had kids (god forbid) they wouldn't see me smoke.
On balance I reckon the pleasure I get from it outweighs the negatives (poor, smelly, danger of doom, social pariah-ness in some circles).
By 'research' I mean I might rootle out a bunch of scientific papers from both sides of the smoking=death argument and weigh things up myself so as to make at least a partially-informed decision.
Anyone particularly anti-smoking or particularly pro-smoking out there can think of a paper I particularly shouldn't miss, please Gaz me the details. I promise not to ignore it.
Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE,
Tue 8 May 2007, 16:43,
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