The first time I quit

$8 a pack!!! And people still smoke!! used to be a dollar a pack, as i remember from college days.

I still ask , ``how drunk the editors are that they publish all ur crap??``

good writing, zehra. though i thought it is gonna go on for a little more but then what happened?

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im generally the first one to concurr that chowk editors are most certainly on a high on a combination of cheaper designer drugs, but i rather liked this one...

Fcuk … I think smokers get a bad rap for nothing … its all hogwash … nonsense …

Once I was getting a medical checkup as I started my first job out of college. The questionnaire asked if I am a smoker. I smoke 2-3 cigarettes a day, and was not clear if that makes me a smoker. I asked the grossly obese nurse standing by, and according to her I am a smoker. I shook my head in disbelief and asked her … “if I have a beer with lunch, and a glass of wine with dinner, does that make me an alcoholic?” She grinned sheepishly, acknowledged my point, but admitted that there’s not much she could do about it. I cursed softly, and checked the “Y” box.

Look at issues with alcohol on the other hand … there are studies after studies underscoring enormous social costs of drinking. A high percentage of robberies, muggings, cases of domestic abuse and violence, incest, child molestation have alcohol as one of the leading common factors. Sexual intercourses that result in transfer of STDs … a significant number of these take place when one or the other person is drunk. Go take your driving license test … and there will inevitably be questions about driving while drunk, blood-alcohol content limits, and that silly gray and black chart that for the life of me I`ve failed to memorize. So what is it ... 0.8% or 0.08% ... I can never remember ... and even if I did, what`s the point?? It`s not like I can stick a finger in one of my orifice and know my blood-alcohol content on a percentage basis ...

Auto accidents? In each and every one of them, the first issue that comes to mind is … was the driver drunk? Hell yeah … more often than not he is. Have you ever heard of anyone getting into a fatal car crash because he had had too many cigarettes? There are groups like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) … but without a “cigarette smoking” counterpart. And don’t even get me started on binge drinking on campuses …

So what`s the problem? Yes, you guessed right ... smoking is the problem ... the mother of all evil. But alcohol remains kosher. Why? ... probably because Jesus turned water into wine …hell … if it was good enough for son of god, it must be good for the rest of us. Come to think of it, this makes a cool slogan for anheuser-busch … so to hell with political correctness and to hell with cheap american beer …

hell ... I think I need a cigarette and a glass of martini …

... one more thought ...

zehra ji, once you`ve quit, quit a few more times ... then you`ll become really good at it ...

Sattar, you have a point.

Smoking and drinking should both be banned.

Although drinking in moderation has some health benefits whereas smoking has none.

Women should not smoke. It is against our culture.

yay, chowk put this up.

raw dust...it was an encounter...that of a paranoid persons really. i started smoking the next day as a matter of fact.

hush u are always too sweet yaar.

i love smoking. i dont know what else to say...i know its bad for me...it is, but i really rally like it alot.
it tastes awful, i know. but i love it.

im acttually on day 12 of quitting so its very apropos that chowk put this up when they have....I`ll be sending in another piece...called, when i really did quit smoking..the 14th time.

its really sad that i am such a nicotine druggie, but i am. i think i am through the worst of it though for now.

thanks all for reading. share your smoking stories...would love to hear them.
z.rizvi.

sattar - my dad began smoking when he went away to college [he was sixteen] and smoked, just like you, 2-3 ciggies a day for the next 40 years or so and didnt see what harm could come of it other than the trip to the dentist every so often. He was in excellent physical condition and there was nothing wrong with him... until the day he was admitted to the hospital with a blood clot in his brain. His ``occasional`` smoking had pretty near cost him his life and even if he was willing to handle the risk, the rest of us werent - so he quit cold turkey and its been eleven years now. Not one lil ciggie off the bandwagon.

Zehra, pls note :)

amrita,

damn. noted. with a big star next to it.

no one can argue taht smoking isnt bad for u. people do argue about HOW bad it is for u. everyone has the story of the uncle who smoked 2 packs and a day and lived to be 80 but then again, we have stories like ur dad.

stinky breath. i quit.

z.` if only it were that easy` rizvi.

i plead the fifth

...zehra, cigarettes, amrita...the list is long and not in alphabetical order

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