If you smoke cigarettes, do you go outside to smoke?

i don’t really smoke (a cigar now and then, always outside, but that’s about it) but my grandfather did like a chimney and he almost always went outside. I think in his case it was more that my grandmother couldn’t stand the stale smoke smell as much as anything but now that I’m thinking about it it might have been something of a generational thing, a lot of his friends smoked outside only at their houses too (strange what you remember sometimes). The only times he really smoked inside was when he’d host poker night a couple times a year.

I don’t smoke, but I let my friends smoke inside my place. It’s not very often and no big deal.
Constant smoking indoors would be bad. I would ask the person(s) to switch to dip.

I read an 1905 newspaper article that referred to cigarettes as “coffin nails.” I don’t know how much more explicit it could be than that. I think the relationship with smoking for a long time was the “lemming effect.” So many people do it, so it must not be harmful, or everyone wouldn’t do it.

Soldiers in WWII were given cigarettes to calm them down while waiting to go into battle, and I think the perception that cigarettes were somehow good for you became prevalent after the end of the war.

I will add that my father died a horrible death from emphysema at age 58. I’m 52. When my father was my age, he was on oxygen 24/7. When he moved out of his condo, the grasscloth on the walls was a puce color instead of tan, from the cigarette smoke, as if someone had been dusting the air with curry powder or tumeric.

One of my friends lives with her mom, who is a heavy smoker, and my friend always, always smells smoky. I smoke outside because I couldn’t deal with the smell of smoke getting into everything, and it turns the ceiling yellow after a while. Smoke inside the house is pretty gross.

I quit when a very smart girlfriend ruled “no smoking inside”. Staying inside with her was more important than smoking. True story. I am forever grateful.

I smoke outside. The boy is a nonsmoker and neither of us want the house to smell like ass. I used to smoke in the bathroom with the window open at my old place though.

@peedub To a cigarette smoker, dip can seem revolting and is totally not the same

Sorry about your granddaughter.

I smoked a pack every day until August 20, 2009 and I never went outside. Whenever I would go somewhere and then come home, I was usually amazed at how much like a tobacco shop my house smelled. I bought little cans of strong air freshener, but I doubt it made much difference.

I miss cigarettes, but they were causing phlegm in my lungs, plus they got to be too expensive for me.

@John

At least when the doctors clued you in, you did the right thing so you can’t be that hard on yourselves.

My younger brother was born severely asthmatic in the early sixties. Both my mother and stepfather were chain smokers and were told point blank by the doctors what a deleterious effect this would have on him.

Did they change their behavior in the slightest, even attempt to quit smoking or at least only smoke outside ?

Nah. Selfish, ignorant (willfully) *sshole f*cking addicts.

I still have vivid memories of smashing a jar of Vicks under the hot water faucet in the tub to create medicated steam and holding him in my lap to keep him breathing until the ambulance arrived. He was only a few months old infant.

But hey, I guess if you’ve got the money to keep paying for ambulance runs and hospitalizations, why bother modifying your smoking to outside, huh?

Any wonder I totally lost respect at an early age for both of these selfish SOBs ? Some people don’t deserve to have kids.

Prior to his birth, yes, they were as clueless as the rest of the population. But the doctors were totally straightforward cuz a child’s life was at stake so they were no longer in the dark about the damage inflicted by cigarette smoke. They just continued to behave as if they were.

Fortunately he survived but no thanks to either of them. However, karma can sometimes be a bitch in this lifetime as well. My stepfather spent the last several years chained to an oxygen tank due to the Emphysema which eventually killed him. Sometimes, consequences can create a rough approximation of justice.

But, to answer the rest of your question. Yes, it was greed on the part of Big Tobacco. Their internal studies had revealed enough of the truth, but they had a vested interest in seeing that it remained a secret.

Does the name Jeffrey Wigand ring a bell? Have you seen the film “The Insider” ? If not, it’s definitely worth renting.

I would imagine there would also be clips of the original 60 Minutes Interview which can be found with a YouTube search. I havent really checked but would be surprised if they werent available Definitely interesting stuff.

I own my own home and live by myself and I always go outside to smoke. Nope, I don’t even smoke inside in my own home. Not matter what, though occasionally, if I can’t find a match or a lighter, I will light my cigarette on the kitchen stove and run for the back door. I do have a little shelter, I have a chair under the eaves, between the storage shed, the back wall of the house and a small bit of fence. I always have hope that I will quit, and it just such a nasty smell and its so hard to get the smell out of fabrics… furniture, carpets, curtains. Even the paint on the walls soak it up. It’s an extremely ingrained habit with me now, not the cigarrettes, that’s an addiction, but the smoking outside. I was traveling and was able to get a smoking room for a couple of nights and it felt really strange to me, smoking inside.

I’m not a smoker and neither is my fiancé. But many family members are. Though we love them dearly, we make everyone go outside to smoke. I don’t handle smoke very well. My eyes water, my nose starts to itch and burn, and my throat gets sore. Not to mention it makes clothing and furniture smell awful. Sorry folks, but if you’re visiting my house, you gotta step outside to smoke!

I smoke outside… down the block… around the corner… at night…

Usually in the kitchen

I always go outside.

Neither hubby nor I smoke, although each year when i go for my asthma checkup our practice nurse asks me the same question: “How many a day pet?, honest I won’t tell doctor” sheesh. I’ve given up asking her to open my folder and have a look. I was born with wonky lungs unfortunately so when you’ve always known what its llike to fight for breath smoking never seemed attractive to me. my brother in law smokes though and even though i tell him to stay inside, he point blank refuses and goes outside in all weather. He does the same thing at his own home too.

The best thing to ever have happened here in the UK was the smoking ban, which prevented people smoking inside shops, pubs etc. I nursed someone I loved with all my heart through lung cancer and if anyone was forced to watch someone they loved die that way, I swear they’d never light another cigarette. Its a cruel horrible way to die. Does anyone remember pre ban days when you’d get on a bus and when you got off again your clothes and hair absolutely stunk <shudder>.
hugglys xx

My wife smoked when we got together – it didnt bother me.

She stopped 8 years ago and since then anyone who wants to smoke at our house does it outside. Even her dad has to go outside on the times he visits. We dont like the smell. Let’s be honest, the smell permeats your clothes, your skin and it’s HONKING!!
I did put an ashtray on the wall ouside though because I also dont wanna see the endies lying about, and we run her Tattoo business form her licenced studio built onto our home so people are around here a lot. they’ll nip out for a cig.

I’ve never smoked (or broke the law, or drunk anything, or kissed a girl…....)

Thanks everyone for the honest answers. my doctor told me that smoking a cigarette is an addiction stronger than a morphine habit.

@John

Sorry, but I’m inclined to call BS on that statement from your doctor.

When my stepfather was diagnosed with Emphysema he was told he had to quit if he wanted to live a few years longer as opposed to a few months.

So, what do you think he did ?

Nope, wrong guess. That selfish pr*ck quit cold turkey that very day with nary a qualm or a look back.

Comparing it to Morphine is just plain ridiculous IMHO. I don’t know what scientific basis he has for that. That’s his OPINION. And that plus $1 will get you a cup of coffee.

There are many similar cases of smokers told to quit or die and they do it cold turkey on the spot.

My SOB stepfather wouldnt even modify his habit and take it outside for the sake of his infant son’s life, but when it came to saving his own hide, he totally quit instantaneously with no slip-ups or looking back.

Yeah, I’m not ready to buy what your doc is selling. Ridiculous excuse-making.

@Buttonstc there’s actually several studies that show the additives in cigarettes, not the nicotine, are more addictive than morphine and heroin. And I’m sure there are people that quit those cold turkey too.

As a smoker, I do smoke in my home and in my car. Most nonsmokers that come to my home or ride in my car are surprised that I smoke inside of them because I always air them out and clean quite often.

i don’t smoke at all, so i wouldn’t know.

When i lived on my own i smoked inside or out in the hallway if i felt like no stinking up my room. In the city its all outside, balcony mostly.

@sara

…“several studies…more addictive than heroin or morphine…” ?

Links, please.

Until then, color me skeptical, which is putting it mildly indeed.

@Buttonstc This link is a good summation to start from.

@Buttonstc well there’s this one: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ped/content/ped_10_13x_guide_for_quitting_smoking.asp and there’s also a lot of good information on the CDC about how tobacco affects the central nervous system much faster and thoroughly than heroine, and there’s this report in Time: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967523,00.html and there’s several studies available at NAMI’s website on why it’s so hard for people with Schizophrenia and Schizo – affective folks to stop smoking. But you can do a lot of the research on your own just by typing “why is it so hard to quit smoking” into google. You can also find a lot just by taking a walk to your local library, not everything is on the internet you know.

Oh but wait, you’re probably being sarcastic right? You just want to be a jerk. Ah, okay got it.