Do you smoke?

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Do you smoke?

  • Yes

    Votes: 26 17.7%

  • No

    Votes: 121 82.3%
  • Total voters
    147
I slow smoked a chicken on Saturday. Does that count?

It was supposed to be Sunday, for a 'Special Sunday Dinner' before my aunt left town. But, it was going to be too hot to slow smoke anything on Sunday.

Buy a whole chicken. Butterfly it. Make a brine of 1 cup of coarse (kosher) salt (don't use Morton's salt!) and add some of your favorite powdered spices (no salt kind) like garlic or onion powder, paprika, chili powder, chile powder, poultry seasoning, etc. Add 1 gallon of water. Brine chicken in it for at least 4 hours, 12 hours being average. Rinse the bird off, put it on the grill or smoker fat side up and add a temperature probe. Smoke with half mesquite and half hickory wood chunks. Every half hour, tap the white ash off the coals and stoke them for a bit, and also brush chicken with lemon and butter mop. Maintain at least a 260 degree temp, 320 being best. Cook until chicken thigh reaches 170-175 degrees. Let rest for 30 minutes, then enjoy.
 
Almost a pack a day, hooray!

Cigarette smoke isn't the worst thing I've put in my lungs, so I guess its the lesser of 5 evils. :indiff:
 
I tried cigarettes, but I hate it and the smell also.

Cigars, it really depends on what kind. My neighbor usually gives me some ' miniature ' ones, like half cut ones, but it all depends on what kind it is at the moment.
 
After having a cigarette habit for many years, I gave it up before my second stinint of college. After college, I picked up cigars. Just enjoyed the taste of them.

After 7 years of cigars, I gave them up in January of this year. Have only had one since then. I miss them on heavy stress days on the Construction site, but for the most part, never really get an urge to have one.

My wife, on the other hand, has been trying to quit for nearly 10 years.
 
I don't smoke but a few of my friends do. I don't have any problem with it so long as they blow their smoke upwards.
 
I smoke weed on occasion
I'll smoke a cigar if the situation is right.
I'll sometimes smoke clove cigarettes (kreteks)
I don't smoke regular cigarettes (but i've tried hand-rolled ones)
I smoke hookah whenever I have the chance
 
I hope I never pick up the habit. I hate cigarettes. All of my co-workers smoke, and it kinda drives me nuts, but I am a little easier around cigarettes now. It really bothers me when they smoke around my car when I have to give them rides all over Seattle.
 
Ciggies are annoying, can't go anywhere in NYC without seeing a ciggie being lit up, and they just smoke anywhere, one time even on the bus and the driver didn't say anything. That is really unsafe and harmful for the little kids on the bus with them. They just light one up waiting for the bus, and another one getting out. The smell doesn't go away just because they threw the Primary Source of the smell out, there is still that Secondary Source, which is the human.

Then they leave ciggie butts all over the place. If some people here didn't smoke, with all the money we save, we would be freaking ballin'.
 
Never smoked a cigarette. Heavy cigarette smoke smell has apparently caused me to develop asthma since I've moved into my apartment which smells heavily of cigarettes. :( I've wanted to try cigars for a while now, but with this newfound asthma, I can forget it.
 
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Never smoked a cigarette. Heavy cigarette smoke smell has apparently caused me to develop asthma since I've moved into my apartment which smells heavily of cigarettes. :( I've wanted to try cigars for a while now, but with this newfound asthma, I can forget it.
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but you dont bring cigar smoke into the lungs, just the mouth
 
Blackbird.
No matter what you do a small percentage of it goes through your lungs.
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I know a guy with asthma who can smoke week, clove cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigars with no problem. People have different asthma severity levels
 
I started smoking about 7 years ago. Then I got a mortgage and couldn't afford it for a few years. I started smoking again about 3 years because I ... dunno actually - I just did. I'm about to move house later this year and will have to quit again because of the bigger mortgage.

Hopefully I'll stay away from the suckers then.
 
I've tried it several times, but only when I'm drunk, I've tried it once when I was not drunk (sober?) and I got sick...So yeah, I'm not starting it, my dad has been smoking for 20 years but he quit :cheers:
 
Zrow
What else, crack? Crystal meth?
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Umm, yeah. Let me change my last sentence from "the lesser of 5 evils" to "the lesser of 7 evils". Thanks for reminding me of how many drugs I've done. :ouch:
 
Never have, never plan to. The smell of the stuff makes me sick, and I’m really glad it’s banned in clubs and pubs in Australia now.
 
menomena
I know a guy with asthma who can smoke week, clove cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigars with no problem. People have different asthma severity levels
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Maybe he CAN smoke with his asthma, but he's sure as hell not doing himself any favors with it.
 
Tried smoking once, didn't like it so I never touched one again. I like the smell of certain cigars especially when they have been lit with a match, but I only like the smell for a few minutes before it becomes too much.
 
I used to be one of those people who were against smoking and drugs mainly due to the fact that I am asthmatic since birth and I've experienced a lot of breathing difficulties as a child. Naturally the last thing I'd want to pick up is smoking and cause further problems to myself. But that changed when I entered college...

I was smoke and alcohol free until a year ago. I do take a puff every once in awhile if I feel tensed/stressed (rarely happens), but I never take a whole cigarette. Just half. To me, it's an acquired taste (I don't like it) and I am extremely confident of myself that I will not get addicted to smoking.

I tried weed for the first time when I was 17 as well, although I never had the intention of doing it at all that night. But I was extremely depressed that day and I decided I needed something to make me forget everything (watched Scarface after that too... :)). Since that day (November 11th 2006 to be precise), I've smoked a joint 3 times.

Tried alcohol for the first time when I was 17 too. Hated it. Absolutely sure I will NEVER drink again.
 
As others have said, never have, never will; a) can't see the point and b) "Smoking seriously damages your wealth". I don't drink either; I've never found an alcoholic drink I like.

I'm so straight edge you could use me as a ruler.
 

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