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In Canada, a pack of cigarettes cost about $13.00 !!  You do the math~~~I always wonder how folks can even afford to smoke!!! Tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise, and tobacco products are not allowed to be displayed in any stores in Canada. Old habits die hard, if they die at all~~~
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I smoked for 14 years, it's very hard to give up nicotine. I guess many know an ex heroin addict that still cant give away nicotine, it has a vicious grip. Judgment Day will be interesting - and all paths lead there.
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I smoked off and on, mostly on for several years. I started as a teenager about 16. Many years later I couldn't breathe properly and called my then husband home from work. He had to wait for someone on the next shift to come in. In the meantime I took a shower and that helped some but I still wanted to go to the ER. He took me to the ER and fortunately we only lived about a mile from the hospital. I will always remember that and ran into the Doctor in a nearby town where he lived. I asked him if he remembered me and he replied that I looked familiar. I told him about that night. He did remember me then and asked if I was still not smoking. I told him I would never smoke again. He was pleased to hear it. I can sit when others are smoking and have absolutely no desire to ever pick a cigarette up again!!!
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CERTAIN BRANDS OF CIGARETTES ARE NOW 10 EUROS A PACKET. IF I SMOKED, WHICH I NEVER HAVE, I WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO EAT EVERY DAY, IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT.
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In Illinois, cigarettes are over $11 a pack for name brands, and I see they are even a dollar higher in New York. I have kids that smoke and I've often reminded them of the health issues and how much more spending money they would have if they quit. What always amazes me, is those folks who can hardly pay their rent, go to the food pantries, are on Medicaid, and every other social assistance they can find, but somehow still smoke. It must truly be an addiction that I cannot comprehend. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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My late husband was a heavy smoker from a young age. He quit smoking in 2007 if memory serves me right. He said it was either give them up before they gave him up. He was having breathing difficulties and little or no energy. Giving up smoking gave him a whole new lease of life. We were forever grateful for that. I my young day I smoked the odd ciggy, but I never got hooked thank goodness. 
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I never smoked other than the odd cigarette but I never inhaled so never got hooked on them. In my family of eight my one brother smoked off and on till he got married and then that was the end of it. I couldn't afford to smoke at the price of cigarettes these days. Of course now the in thing is to smoke joints. The smell of joints is ten times worse than cigarettes, cigars or a pipe. Back in the day where I worked there were a few chain smokers. In the early 80's where I worked we took a poll in the office to disallow cigarette smoking. There was a majority and thus smoking in the office became a trend. I am not even sure I have a ash tray in my house anymore as I don't have family or friends who smoke. I had a cousin in Mississippi who smoked at one time and when his dad died of lung cancer he gave it up but then he took up chewing tobacco instead. I am not sure what is worse smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco.
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In Canada, a pack of cigarettes cost about $13.00 !! You do the math~~~I always wonder how folks can even afford to smoke!!! Tobacco companies are not allowed to advertise, and tobacco products are not allowed to be displayed in any stores in Canada. Old habits die hard, if they die at all~~~
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My ex-husband couldn't quit smoking.....then one day when he was lighting up, he had a seizure because Metastasising Lung Cancer had gone to his brain. Turns out he had ignored many severe symptoms because he couldn't face quitting..........That cigarette was his last one. I asked him how hard it was to quit, he said he had completely lost his urge to smoke..........5 months later he was dead. This was an intelligent, well-educated,responsible, very practical man. I've known a lot of people who quit smoking though.....
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Denial is a powerful force.......
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I never smoked other than the odd cigarette but I never inhaled so never got hooked on them. In my family of eight my one brother smoked off and on till he got married and then that was the end of it. I couldn't afford to smoke at the price of cigarettes these days. Of course now the in thing is to smoke joints. The smell of joints is ten times worse than cigarettes, cigars or a pipe. Back in the day where I worked there were a few chain smokers. In the early 80's where I worked we took a poll in the office to disallow cigarette smoking. There was a majority and thus smoking in the office became a trend. I am not even sure I have a ash tray in my house anymore as I don't have family or friends who smoke. I had a cousin in Mississippi who smoked at one time and when his dad died of lung cancer he gave it up but then he took up chewing tobacco instead. I am not sure what is worse smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco. When I bowled, I always came home smelling like smoke, and the first thing I did was strip off those clothes and toss them into the washer and I took a shower and washed my hair. Oh, and I bowled at least three times a week. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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I never smoked other than the odd cigarette but I never inhaled so never got hooked on them. In my family of eight my one brother smoked off and on till he got married and then that was the end of it. I couldn't afford to smoke at the price of cigarettes these days. Of course now the in thing is to smoke joints. The smell of joints is ten times worse than cigarettes, cigars or a pipe. Back in the day where I worked there were a few chain smokers. In the early 80's where I worked we took a poll in the office to disallow cigarette smoking. There was a majority and thus smoking in the office became a trend. I am not even sure I have a ash tray in my house anymore as I don't have family or friends who smoke. I had a cousin in Mississippi who smoked at one time and when his dad died of lung cancer he gave it up but then he took up chewing tobacco instead. I am not sure what is worse smoking cigarettes or chewing tobacco.
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Ha ha Kofla....I was hiding among the crowds of SFF bloggers....LOL!
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