Smoking in your Van

[trevskoda]

People who smoke must have never got away from the dummy tit habit as a child and just kept it up into adulthood,bet you think this thread sucks.

 

[huntsman]

i think its sad that some people have nothing better to do than watch other people to see how many sigarets they smoke its there choice even if they were to smoke inside there van or not ibwould never judge some one for doingcwhst ever they want in there own property

 

[Deleted member 58274]

Passive consequences

We stopped smoking back in 2000 for financial reasons, even back then !! It was only some years later that we became aware of the "passive" issues. As ex smokers we soon grew intolerant of being near smokers but thankfully the smoking ban arrived which is great. Unfortunately there is still a deadly curse....the culprits who take a massive last "drag" then rush back through a door into a public area (often having dumped the stub in doorway!!) The breath that they then exhale for the next 30 to 60 seconds is actually twice as cancerous to third parties as what the smoker inhaled in the first place !! (and stinks twice as bad as original smoke) Not a lot of people know that !!! It makes me cringe when parents chuck a fag on the ground then pick their kid out of the pran....aarrrggg.
It's a free country.....do what you like....just be considerate to the rest of us ...Maja

 

[andromeda]

Giving up altogether

Have any of you who are using vale thingys considered that you may have a habit to break rather than an addiction? If vaping is your way to giving up perhaps nicotine wasn't your issue but rather having something habitually in your hands or mouth. Back in the dark ages I used to run stop smoking groups and there were loads of tips to get round those habits. You could possibly save yourselves money and future heartache by looking into them if you haven't already done so.

 

[antiquesam]

We stopped smoking back in 2000 for financial reasons, even back then !! It was only some years later that we became aware of the "passive" issues. As ex smokers we soon grew intolerant of being near smokers but thankfully the smoking ban arrived which is great. Unfortunately there is still a deadly curse....the culprits who take a massive last "drag" then rush back through a door into a public area (often having dumped the stub in doorway!!) The breath that they then exhale for the next 30 to 60 seconds is actually twice as cancerous to third parties as what the smoker inhaled in the first place !! (and stinks twice as bad as original smoke) Not a lot of people know that !!! It makes me cringe when parents chuck a fag on the ground then pick their kid out of the pran....aarrrggg.
It's a free country.....do what you like....just be considerate to the rest of us ...Maja

If your statement about the dangers of passive smoking are correct I wonder how you account for the continued existence of human life on earth after my generation put up with cigarette smoke in the home, cinema, public transport, restaurants and even in the doctors surgery?

 

[izwozral]

I'm sure that most department stores employ a vaper Barry.

He sits behind the door smoking fresh baked bread flavour.

Pubs do beer flavoured/scented vape I believe?

 

[barryd]

Have any of you who are using vale thingys considered that you may have a habit to break rather than an addiction? If vaping is your way to giving up perhaps nicotine wasn't your issue but rather having something habitually in your hands or mouth. Back in the dark ages I used to run stop smoking groups and there were loads of tips to get round those habits. You could possibly save yourselves money and future heartache by looking into them if you haven't already done so.

I suppose it would be better to just not smoke anything but I tried several times to quit before Vaping came along and it was just awful. Couldnt do it and I never smoked that many anyway. 10 to 20 a day (usually about 15). Even when the first vape devices came out within 48 hours I felt almost suicidal! I do wonder though now ive packed up the real fags if I stopped vaping what would happen. I think most people cut down the MG's slowly when vaping and some get down to zero. I guess I work on the principle that its 95% healthier than normal cigarettes which has to be a positive to me considering the stuff Ive done to my body over the last thirty years or so.

 

[Caz]

Have any of you who are using vale thingys considered that you may have a habit to break rather than an addiction? If vaping is your way to giving up perhaps nicotine wasn't your issue but rather having something habitually in your hands or mouth. Back in the dark ages I used to run stop smoking groups and there were loads of tips to get round those habits. You could possibly save yourselves money and future heartache by looking into them if you haven't already done so.

I think you are probably correct. I ruined my teeth by eating sweets in the car when the Government stopped me smoking in it. I keep sugar free ones in the van now to stop me vaping too much whilst driving - the danger being that they have a slight laxative effect if I eat too many. You just can't win.

 

[StevenJ]

I've had numerous types of kit over the last 6 1/2 years , I decided I had to quit when I was smoking around 60 (sixty) a day , I couldn't function until I'd had 2 or 3 first thing in the morning . However I started vaping with the very basic kits available back then and I quit the cigs within 3 weeks .

I had a bit of a blip 4 years ago when I lost my wife and immediatley reached out for fags , but again with vaping I'm down to a couple of rollies a day.
Which for now I'm satisfied with , but going back to the op , since I first quit I haven't smoked in my house or any of my vehicles and wouldn't even consider it , my house has been more or less decorated through , if previous owners of my mh had smoked in it , you wouldn't know now because I've cleaned the upholstery and fitted new carpet and curtains.

I also make up my own menthol for vaping and bought 5 litres of nicotine liquid at 72mg before the TPD took hold , so plenty to keep me going for a while.

 

[Deleted member 775]

People who smoke must have never got away from the dummy tit habit as a child and just kept it up into adulthood,bet you think this thread sucks.

now then trev i left the dummy behind ,yes i still suck on the ciggy but the other bit will never lose that craving .

 

[Deleted member 775]

well this aversion to others smoking .the anti smokers lobby are free to complain about us smokers ,i have no complaints to them realy after all we live in a free society ,mind you they dont realise that do they with all there moans and groans . we spent a nice day at that beamish museum and they have a little train ,well two of them to be precise ,one steam and another diesel ,to get to the station you walk over a bridge over the line .now when either train goes under the bridge you get all the crud smoke you expect and there is always a crowd on the bridge and they stand there and get enveloped in smoke , they love it . now then i stood among them and lit up a rather fat rolly just to see the reaction to my ciggy smoke ,i was nearly linched . many told me how disguting i was and some even shouted they had children with them , then the train passed under enveloping everybody in smoke .i thought how stupid they were and how foolish they sounded ,and i told them so . they had all breathed in the equivelent of a hundred cigs at least . shows the mentality of those non smokers there that day . i am off for a cig now before it starts raining .

 

[mrbigglesworth]

Have any of you who are using vale thingys considered that you may have a habit to break rather than an addiction? If vaping is your way to giving up perhaps nicotine wasn't your issue but rather having something habitually in your hands or mouth. Back in the dark ages I used to run stop smoking groups and there were loads of tips to get round those habits. You could possibly save yourselves money and future heartache by looking into them if you haven't already done so.

I quit by going on 20 toothpicks a day.
It's much easier to give up smoking when you WANT to rather than when you think you ought to.

No doubt in a few years a lot of people will be looking for some compo from the vaping industry for unforseen health injuries.

Mr B.

 

[trevskoda]

i think its sad that some people have nothing better to do than watch other people to see how many sigarets they smoke its there choice even if they were to smoke inside there van or not ibwould never judge some one for doingcwhst ever they want in there own property

True but its my taxes that pay for the bu--ers when there in hospital/self inflicted illness with tubes stuck everywhere,have you ever seen someone gasp there last due to fags,not at all nice.

 

[trevskoda]

If your statement about the dangers of passive smoking are correct I wonder how you account for the continued existence of human life on earth after my generation put up with cigarette smoke in the home, cinema, public transport, restaurants and even in the doctors surgery?

And thats why im ill now, living as a child in a fog/stink, and so many others born of smokers.

 

[Deleted member 58274]

Choices ?

Well, as said in previous post, it's about personal choices as long as one doesn't impose on others. The analogy of watching the steam train go by with putting up with smokers was quite comical !! Almost as comical as the nostalgic references to the past where "it's a miricle we all survived". Sadly these cuddly graspings of the past don't help those of today struggling to survive (as Trev mentions) the consequences of the smoking era. Only idiots ignore the fact that smoking is now well recognized as being highly hazardous to those who indulge and also extremely dangerous for those subjected to exhalations from persons just stubbing out a fag. Do the research....getting tiresome now....Maja

 

[Tezza]

True but its my taxes that pay for the bu--ers when there in hospital/self inflicted illness with tubes stuck everywhere,have you ever seen someone gasp there last due to fags,not at all nice.

Apperently it costs the NHS 5 bill a year . .........but smokers contribute 12 bill a year.

edit , and that is why no govt will ban them completely.

 

[Johnnygm7lsi]

True but its my taxes that pay for the bu--ers when there in hospital/self inflicted illness with tubes stuck everywhere,have you ever seen someone gasp there last due to fags,not at all nice.

It`s the smokers taxes that pays for the smoking related illnesses Trev, not yours

 

[Deleted member 775]

True but its my taxes that pay for the bu--ers when there in hospital/self inflicted illness with tubes stuck everywhere,have you ever seen someone gasp there last due to fags,not at all nice.

your taxes ,what about smokers taxes smokers taxes ,i belive amounting to quite a few billion a year collected through tobacco tax ,if the government chose not to spend it on the nhs then its not my fault i pay for any treatment i should need . suppose i could complain about the millions it costs a year for amature sports injuries ,go to a/e any weekend see the amount of people with sprains and broken bones from kicking a ball round a field for fun the joggers that fall and bust a bone of have a coronary .the millions for overweight pie eaters how much will drunks cost the nhs this weekend ,but its ok just a laugh to get pissed out of your mind and take up police time and money ,ambulace staff's time and money then kick feck out of some nurse or doctor that could be dealing with a poorly person ..yes many do gasp there last through cigs but you pays yer money and takes your choice nobody puts a gun to your head and makes you smoke luck of the draw i suppose but there's many more go through life and a long life unaffected aswell .personaly ive not known one person die of lung cancer caused by smoking but a couple with skin cancer and one with a brain tumour ,they as far as i know dident smoke . i dont think ive cost our national health anything with my habit like many others out there ,yet ive cost many thousands through accidents at work and play.oh ive cost them a few grand at least with those bloody lectric cig things though

 

[antiquesam]

And thats why im ill now, living as a child in a fog/stink, and so many others born of smokers.

Fortunately not dead though.

 

[antiquesam]

Well, as said in previous post, it's about personal choices as long as one doesn't impose on others. The analogy of watching the steam train go by with putting up with smokers was quite comical !! Almost as comical as the nostalgic references to the past where "it's a miricle we all survived". Sadly these cuddly graspings of the past don't help those of today struggling to survive (as Trev mentions) the consequences of the smoking era. Only idiots ignore the fact that smoking is now well recognized as being highly hazardous to those who indulge and also extremely dangerous for those subjected to exhalations from persons just stubbing out a fag. Do the research....getting tiresome now....Maja

I don't disagree with the fact passive smoking isn't good for you, taking me out of the idiot bracket, but I do object to the anti smoking lobby using over egged statements in their propaganda and others repeating them.