How many cancer sticks have you smoked in your lifetime?

[Fat Elvis]

This is a spinoff of a thread highjack....

Here is a calculator that lets you figure how many cigarettes you've smoked in your lifetime.

For those of us who either smoke or have smoked, it is pretty mind-boggling how many coffin nails we've inhaled.

Me, I quit about 16 and a half years ago. Still, I smoked about 118706 cigarettes, or about 5935 packs of cigarettes. The number is probably a bit higher, but still, that is a lot of cigarettes if you think about it.

Another way of looking at it, if you place the cigarettes end to end (assuming king sized, once again, not always the case), I would of smoked a cigarette that was over 5 1/6 miles long.

[Deberg_1990]

Originally Posted by frazod

It was easier to smoke more back in the day. People watch Mad Men or similar shows and think it's funny that everybody was smoking, but that's the way it was up until a little over 20 years ago. I'd probably go through two or three an hour at work, although they mostly burned away in the ash tray while I was working. The first smoking restrictions I encountered were in '89, when the admiral at Great Lakes imposed a work space ban and decreed that we'd have to go use a converted men's room in the basement as a lounge (God, was I pissed ). I could still smoke at my desk when I got my first civilian job in '90, and that didn't change until a couple of years later.

Heh, yea it's unreal to think everyone would just light up at their desks back in the day.

[BlackHelicopters]

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[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by frazod

It was easier to smoke more back in the day. People watch Mad Men or similar shows and think it's funny that everybody was smoking, but that's the way it was up until a little over 20 years ago. I'd probably go through two or three an hour at work, although they mostly burned away in the ash tray while I was working. The first smoking restrictions I encountered were in '89, when the admiral at Great Lakes imposed a work space ban and decreed that we'd have to go use a converted men's room in the basement as a lounge (God, was I pissed ). I could still smoke at my desk when I got my first civilian job in '90, and that didn't change until a couple of years later.

Instead of end caps at grocery stores, they had ashtrays. There were ashtrays in hospital and doctor office waiting rooms. I had a doctor that chain-smoked and just flicked his ashes into the examination room sink.

Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Heh, yea it's unreal to think everyone would just light up at their desks back in the day.

I walked into a tool rental shop in a part of town I don't frequently work a couple weeks ago. Smelled like cigs horribly. I thought to myself, "they must have really, really smoked a lot in here years ago". Then I watched the owner light up right there inside. Seemed so foreign and weird to me. I'm guess it hurts that guy's business at this point because I'm not even a snob about stuff like that and I was taken aback.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Maybe 2 or 3

[Lumpy]

Originally Posted by -King-

You don't think smoking a pack of day of something that is proven to kill is pathetic?

I have never quite understood the hate from non-smokers, such as yourself. I mean, really?

People like you bitched and moaned about others smoking in public places and you got what you wanted. Smoking is banned everywhere, (even outdoors... zoos, parks, etc.). Yet, you're still being a holier-than-thou douche and still bitching about what others do to themselves.

How would you feel if people ragged on you about all the dicks you smoke?

[Mr. Kotter]

Zero...

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

I have never quite understood the hate from non-smokers, such as yourself. I mean, really?

People like you bitched and moaned about others smoking in public places and you got what you wanted. Smoking is banned everywhere, (even outdoors... zoos, parks, etc.). Yet, you're still being a holier-than-thou douche and still bitching about what others do to themselves.

How would you feel if people ragged on you about all the dicks you smoke?

I haven't had a cigarette in years, but I'd light one up right now if I there was a way to blow the smoke through my screen into the face of every asshole who behaves like this. One of hardest parts of quitting for me was shaking the feeling that they'd won.

[Fat Elvis]

Originally Posted by -King-

You don't think smoking a pack of day of something that is proven to kill is pathetic?

It wasn't proven to kill back in the day, and it was socially acceptable. Quit being a dick.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by -King-

You don't think smoking a pack of day of something that is proven to kill is pathetic?

Everything kills you dude. Everything. I've never smoked a cig in my life, but don't rag on people.

I could stand to lose a few pounds. You drive in a car. Shit kills people.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Lumpy

I have never quite understood the hate from non-smokers, such as yourself. I mean, really?

People like you bitched and moaned about others smoking in public places and you got what you wanted. Smoking is banned everywhere, (even outdoors... zoos, parks, etc.). Yet, you're still being a holier-than-thou douche and still bitching about what others do to themselves.

How would you feel if people ragged on you about all the dicks you smoke?

How am I being holier than thou? It's a pathetic habit that can kill you. It's as simple as that. You can do it all you want, I didn't bitch about you doing it. I never said that you need to stop. I just said that it's pathetic.

[-King-]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Everything kills you dude. Everything. I've never smoked a cig in my life, but don't rag on people.

I could stand to lose a few pounds. You drive in a car. Shit kills people.

You're comparing smoking cigarettes to driving? Really?

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by -King-

You're comparing smoking cigarettes to driving? Really?

Laugh your ass off all you want. You could die in a car crash tomorrow and Lumpy could live well into her 80's smoking happily.

You have to die of something.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by -King-

You're comparing smoking cigarettes to driving? Really?

BTW I'm not saying smoking is good for you, but there is very little we do for ourselves that is good.

You're just here to call people pathetic.

[lewdog]

Because of people like Lumpy, my insurance premiums have increased.