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Ladies, how do you feel about men who chew tobacco and spit in a cup?

Asked by Aster (20023points) June 25th, 2016

First, my sincere apologies for using the term, “ladies.” “Females” sounded ridiculous as did “women.” Regardless of that indiscretion, how do you feel about dating or marrying a man who chews tobacco fairly often and carries a cup around to spit into?
For me, it’s a deal breaker . For one thing, it can cause oral cancer. How about you? Are you not bothered by it?

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Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

I hate to say it, but it does detrimentally impact any thought of a partnership with a tobacco chewer. With that said, it has zero impact on whether I would be friends with someone, male ore female, that uses tobacco. There are other factors that are much more important.

ucme's avatar

Is this 1870?

Aster's avatar

@Pied_Pfeffer I agree with you.

johnpowell's avatar

I know this doesn’t necessarily answer your question.

But when I worked at the theater cleaning up after people when they exited the theater chew cups were by far the worst thing we ever encountered. And I found a plastic bag full of mac and cheese and used condoms in the bag. Chew cups were worse.

#1 :: If a movie was busy we used leaf blowers to clean the theaters. This would blow over the chew cups and it would run all over the place. This actually wasn’t as bad as number 2.

#2 :: Slow movie and we would clean the theater while the credits were rolling. It was dark. So we would walk around picking up the big stuff. Gotta go fast. Oh shit, didn’t see that chew cup and you accidentally kicked it. Now your pants and shoes are drenched in warm tobacco spit.

Luckily when people asked for our little complimentary cups you could tell what they were going to use them for. The spit went both ways.

syz's avatar

<gag>

Aster's avatar

^^^^^^ It’s getting worse…

tinyfaery's avatar

It’s foul.

Coloma's avatar

Nasty!

I also hate people that spit in public, chewers or not. Just gross.

chyna's avatar

Nasty. It would be a deal breaker.

Love_my_doggie's avatar

The word “ladies” is hardly an indiscretion! Would you apologize for calling a guy a “gentleman”? I’m guessing you wouldn’t. But, your sensitivity, and your concerns about offending anyone, do make you a lovely lady indeed.

I’m happy to say that I’ve never known anyone who chews tobacco, let alone spit tobacco into a cup. (Ughh…) There are certain advantages to living blue-urban. I’ve also never met anyone who owns a gun.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

Ladies? How about is guys?Where I grew up girls chewed tobacco too. Not my thing so it goes without saying I need a classy girl.

jca's avatar

Disgusting, stinky, would taste nasty. No thank you. Get away from me.

Buttonstc's avatar

ewwwww. Nuff said.

cazzie's avatar

I would never put up with any tobacco use at all and I even think vaping is silly. I watched my mother die of lung cancer. It is a sad character trait to be addicted like that, especially knowing what we know now about health risks.

jca's avatar

Aaaand, to add to what I wrote above, chewing tobacco stains teeth and causes cancer of the tongue and esophagus.

Seek's avatar

I find it disgusting, and it’s an instant deal-breaker. So is cigarette smoking.

I can give a pass to occasional or social cigar smoking or pipe smoking. I find that the same as the difference between alcoholism and enjoying the occasional happy hour.

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