Comments on: Man or Woman – Smoking Is Still Bad For You

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:06:20 +0000

Perhaps I do need to expand my horizons.

By: nybgrus

nybgrus — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:10:03 +0000

Belgian beer with Belgian chocolate is as close to proof of the existence of a loving god we will ever have.

By: DevoutCatalyst

DevoutCatalyst — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:44:39 +0000

All beers put you off? I’d be sorry to hear that, and if so it’s too bad, because I was thinking we could fly you to Belgium for one of our Skeptics in the Monastery events, drink Chimay, diss God, appreciate the good life, pious monks serving us manna from heaven. As the saying goes, build a better Trappist and the world will beat a path to your abbey — Belgian monks make great beer. Will you join us BillyJoe?

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:26:13 +0000

DC: “Foster’s isn’t beer”

Oh, is that the problem?
How about XXXX?
http://www.aclandcellars.com.au/beer/xxxx-gold-beer

NBR,

Ouch!

T57′

“pizza and beer”

Makes me shake just thinking about it.
Surely, it’s pizza and coke.

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:05:45 +0000

I hated the taste of beer for the first several years after I started drinking it as a means to get buzzed. Then on my 21st birthday,my friends took me out for pizza and beer,and the combination clicked,and from that moment on I really enjoyed the taste.The same thing happened with wine a few years later.

By: nybgrus

nybgrus — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:44:16 +0000

An ex girlfriend of mine hated beer. Just one of the many reasons she is ex status.

By: DevoutCatalyst

DevoutCatalyst — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:47:28 +0000

Foster’s isn’t beer.

By: BillyJoe7

BillyJoe7 — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:23:10 +0000

Seeing as we’re into anecdotes…

I was never a serious smoker, but I did spend a few years smoking a few cigarettes every night while studying. However, it didn’t sit well with running, especially when I started training for marathons, so I decided to give it up. Surprisingly I found that hard to do, and even after having given it away for a few years, I couldn’t resist taking a drag from my wife’s cigarette every now and then. That is now past history as well. Unfortunately, my wife continues to smoke and she will never give it away. Her grandfather was a heavy smoker and lived into his eighties so that tack doesn’t work on her. That’s an unreliable anecdote, yes, but she’s a “feely” type, not a “sciencey” type.

Another thing: I can’t stand the taste of beer. Scotch and red wine are fine, but I can’t get the beer past my tongue. I don’t think I’ve met anyone else with such an aversion, but I wonder how common that is and what the basis for it might be.

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:58:52 +0000

By the way, I should also add that one incentive for not smoking was the cost. Just a couple years before starting college I quit buying comic books because they started to cost more than twenty five cents, and I was shocked to see one of my friends pay what to me was too much for a package of cigarettes, it was more than several comics! I am just too cheap (frugal, penny-wise?).

(which is perhaps why we can pay the tuition for three kids)

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:53:05 +0000

One method I don’t recommend as a way to quit smoking:

When I filled out my form for a college dorm room in 1975 I requested a non-smoking roommate.

Unfortunately so did my roommate, who did it as a way to force herself to quit smoking. More than once I caught her attempting to smoke, and then a friend of hers was smoking in the room. Despite it being the middle of winter I opened the window and sat next to it explaining it wasn’t his company but that I gag when I smell the stuff.

I think my roommate finally did quit smoking. I just wish I was not the one who had to breathe it.