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When you were young, did many people coax you to try smoking cigarettes?

Posted - January 22, 2021
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  • 5451
    No, none of my immediate family smokes, and smoking was always presented as bad and unhealthy, never something that was cool or fun.  There wasn’t any peer pressure for me to smoke because I can’t think of a single kid in high school who did smoke.  I think peer pressure actually went the opposite way.  They probably would’ve shamed someone for smoking.
      January 23, 2021 8:38 AM MST
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  • 10052
    The only time I really felt coaxed was about 20 years ago. I had quit smoking for several years and a co-worker who enjoyed smoke breaks really wanted company. Soon enough I was smoking again. (Luckily not for long, but still...).
      January 24, 2021 10:02 AM MST
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  • 53509

     

      Hey, wait! You’re condemning me for sneaking three measly cigs when I was twelve years old, and talking about making notations in the dossier you’re keeping on me?  You were a strung-out, chain-smoking, stained fingers, ashtrays in every room, ash-dangling, loss of sense of taste, coughing and hacking hardcore nicotine addict as an adult, at least twice! Foul, I say, FOUL! Where’s my ink pen?  Grrrrrrrrrr.

    (You knew when you posted this that I wouldn’t just let it go. Grrrrrrr.)










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      January 24, 2021 6:08 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Hey, I have plenty of ghosts in my closet. You're the one always claiming to be pure all the time. 

    I never smoked in my house, btw. Well, not cigarettes. 
      January 27, 2021 8:22 PM MST
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  • 53509

     

    “Pure”? Me? I have my faults and defects! You’re not the only one with ghosts!
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      January 27, 2021 9:16 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Did I mean to say skeletons rather than ghosts? I think I did. 

    I think I have both skeletons and ghosts. Possibly a warlock, too. 

    Yes, but you might have been one of Nancy Reagan's 'Just say no' poster-boys. 

      January 28, 2021 7:27 PM MST
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  • 53509

     

      None of the skeletons/ghosts in my closet are of the alcohol or pharmaceutical variety, they’re more “woman-related”. (Cough, cough.)


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      January 28, 2021 10:44 PM MST
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  • 10052
    Yeah, I can imagine those skeletons have really piled up over the years. Literally! 

    How long has your dungeo  basement "sandwich shop" been in operation, Randy? 
      January 29, 2021 8:18 PM MST
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  • 53509

     

      You’re not wearing a wore wire are you? I know you were seen near police headquarters and the district attorney’s office, so how do I know you didn’t plea bargain your way out of your own charges by offering to give me up instead?  Sorry, I’m not falling for it this time, Sister. Go peddle your papers somewhere else. Grrrrrrr. 


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    This post was edited by Randy D at January 29, 2021 9:13 PM MST
      January 29, 2021 8:23 PM MST
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  • 10052
    wore  wire

    We'll see. 
      January 29, 2021 8:26 PM MST
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      January 29, 2021 9:13 PM MST
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  • 8214
    In my late 20's, yes.
      January 24, 2021 4:01 PM MST
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  • 34266
    Nope, not cigarettes. 
      January 24, 2021 5:02 PM MST
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