I sat on the train into uni today
opposite a young couple. The young woman was complaining that she was tired because she'd been up half the night coughing and felt really ill. As she rolled a cigarette.

Hypocrisy or stupidity?!
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 15:57, 15 replies)

through extensive research
I have found that if you have a cough as a result of a cold or something then smoking has bugger all effect on it, therefore it's better to smoke and not miss the effects of that than to stop smoking for the duration of the cough.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:06, closed)

Agreed
In a lot of cases smoking will ease the cough. Addiction is a terrible thing.

I have only once in my entire life been so ill that I couldn't smoke a joint to make myself better. I tried but it made me feel like I was going to die. Funnily enough, if I hadn't been taken to hospital when I was I actually would've died within a couple of hours.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:21, closed)

sounds harsh
what was wrong with you?

I always find the smoking joints helps ;-)
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:23, closed)

It was when I got diagnosed with diabetes
I was pretty fucked, and in typical fashion refusing to go to hospital because 'I'll be alright when I've had a lie down and a joint' (completely wrong!)

Got dragged into a car by a couple of mates.

When I got to hospital my blood sugar was so high that the machines they had there wouldn't read it. Apparently I'm quite hard to kill.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:28, closed)

Really fucked my foot up a few years back
Really mangled it.

Prescription painkillers made me feel fucking awful. Nothing sorted out the pain like a nice fat jazz cigarette.
( SpankyHanky, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:23, closed)

Yep
Weed is definitely the best painkiller. And has fewer side effects than most of the prescription shit. Shame the Daily Mail-reading Middle Englanders get so up in arms every time allowing medical use of it is suggested.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:29, closed)

Yet there never seems to be any kind of
"Let's stop giving morphine to cancer patients 'cuz it's like heroin..." debate.
( Cawl, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 16:56, closed)

How true
Never occurred to me, that.

*makes red/white wine snakebite*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 17:09, closed)

I wouldn't...
They'll cancel out and you'll be left with a glass of water.
The bible got it backwards.
( Cawl, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 17:17, closed)

Ok ok ok!
*Bitter smoking ban supporting asthma sufferer crawls back in her hole*
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 17:30, closed)

amazing
Wow you found a train you are allowed to smoke on?
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 17:45, closed)

not necessarily
she may have been rolling a cigarette ready to smoke when she got off the train.
(rainmaker is 98% lurker., Wed 25 Feb 2009, 19:05, closed)

Yes
That's what she was doing, cos she got off at my stop.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 20:30, closed)

Dont get me wrong Petite, this is a great post
for some reason we started talking about weed... lovely, lovely, irrisistable weed... oh, how I love you so...
( SpankyHanky, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 22:40, closed)

Ahh weed
I accidentally ate half a slice of hash cake once. Sometimes I think I fail at being a student.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Wed 25 Feb 2009, 22:57, closed)